Topic+3+-+Epistemology

=﻿Broad Goals= This introductory course in Epistemology intends that you:
 * consider how knowledge can be constructed
 * examine thought experiments in epistemology
 * examine key questions in epistemology

= ﻿What is Epistemology? =

Epistemology is concerned with how we know things about the world around us and how we construct knowledge.

Typical Epistemological questions include
What do we know? and, How do we know it? What is knowledge? How is knowledge acquired? What do people know? How do we know what we know? How does science help us know? Is there a limit to what we can know?

= = = Warm ups =

A distinction activity for Belief and Knowledge

A distinction activity for Philosophy and Science

=Some General Epistemological Readings= Plato's Meno

Descarte's Epistemology

Edmund Gettier attempting to clarrify what knowledge comprises of using deductive logic

Bertrand Russell - Theory of Knowledge

David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Knowledge

George Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge

John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding

An interesting article suggesting the BBC gives too much weight to fringe views and therefore overrepresents them in the media.

Martin Cohen - The Cow in the Filed

David Phillips - Conditions for the Propositional Knowledge

David Phillips - Knowledge: An Introduction

=Science V Philosophy= Massimo Pigliucci - The Difference between Science and Philosophy

Mortimer J Adler - The Basi ﻿c Difference Between Science and Philosophy

Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientif Revolutions

Karl Popper - Objective Knowledge

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

CP Snow - Two Cultures

=House Keeping=