Contemporary Epistemology - PHIL2208

   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 6 units of credit in level 1 Philosophy and 36 units of credit overall
 
 
Excluded: PHIL2109, PHIL2209, PHIL5004
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


What is knowledge? What knowledge are people capable of having? Might people have no knowledge at all? Might people at least have much less knowledge than they take themselves to have? We will discuss sceptical, as well as non-sceptical, philosophical theories of knowledge, covering such topics as these: truth, fallibility, evidence, certainty, knowledge of the world, knowledge of the unobserved, knowledge of one's mind, knowledge of meaning.