PHIL 3300 Epistemology

This course aims at
1.familiarizing students with the terrain of contemporary epistemology and at
2.helping students to map their own thinking about knowledge.
The focus is on recent work in theory of knowledge (everything we read was published in the instructor’s lifetime) rather than on classical issues such as responding to scepticism or arguments over the relative virtues of rationalism and empiricism. Students who complete the course successfully should both understand the major positions and key concepts in contemporary epistemological debate and also be able to articulate their own epistemological views.