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Contemporary Epistemology - ARTS3373
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Humanities
 
 
Course Outline: School of Humanities Courses 2012
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 24 units of credit in the Philosophy stream or 72 units of credit overall
 
 
Excluded: ARTS3364
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Subject Area: Philosophy

This course concerns one of philosophy's core areas — epistemology. The aim of the course is to give students an awareness of some historically and philosophically important ideas and ways of thinking, along with an increased ability to engage critically and imaginatively with those ideas and those ways of thinking. Epistemology is the philosophical study of the nature and extent of knowledge. And so we will consider some theories of knowledge and its possible constituents, along with philosophical challenges to our actually -- or even possibly -- having knowledge or its constituents. What do we know? How do we know? Do we know at all? Indeed, are we even rational beings?

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