PHIL 6820 Epistemology

3 semester hours

A study of the philosophical dimensions of the cognitive life. It explores questions about the nature and sources of knowledge - and even its very possibility. Such questions lead to further considerations about, for example, skepticism and the problem of epistemic regress; the foundationalism vs. coherentism and internalism vs. externalism debates; the classical debates between rationalism and empiricism and, too, realism and idealism. The course might also investigate fresh developments in virtue epistemology, social epistemology, and feminist epistemology.