Epistemology
PHI 3820 Epistemology (Tentative Syllabus)
Topics:
- Introduction
- Tripartite Analysis of Knowledge
- The Gettier Problem & Proposals for Solving It
- Foundationalism
- Coherentism
- Externalism: Reliablism
- Skepticism (I): High-standards Skepticism & Fallibilism
- Skepticism (II): Closure Principle and Contextualism
- The Pragmatist’s Challenge
Assessment
Grading will be based on the following: tutorial performance, examination, and essays.
Major Texts
1. Sosa, E. & Kim, J., Epistemology: An Anthology
2. Feldman, R., Epistemology
3. Bonjour, L., Epistemology
4. Dancy, J., Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology
Selected Bibliography
Alston, William P. | The Reliability of Sense Perception |
Annas and Barnes | The Modes of Scepticism |
Aristotle | On the Soul (tr. W. S. Hett) |
Audi, Robert | Epistemology |
Ayer, A. J. | The Problem of Knowledge |
Bernecker and Dretske | Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology |
Bonjour and Sosa | Epistemic Justification |
Bonjour, Laurence | The Structure of Empirical Knowledge |
Bonjour, Laurence | In Defense of Pure Reason |
Chisholm, Roderick | Theory of Knowledge |
Chisholm, Roderick | Perceiving: A Philosophical Study |
Coady, C.A.J. | Testimony |
Davidson, Donald | Inquires into Truth and Interpretation |
Davidson, Donald | Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective |
Dretske, Fred I. | Seeing and Knowing |
Fogelin, Robert | Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification |
Fumerton, R. | Metaepistemology and Skepticism |
Goldman., Alvin | Epistemology and Cognition |
Greco and Sosa | Blackwell Guide to Epistemology |
Haack, Susan | Evidence and Inquiry |
Harman, Gilbert | Change in View |
Horwich, Paul | Truth |
Huemer and Audi | Epistemology: Contemporary Readings |
Jackson, Frank | Perception: A Representation Theory |
Kitcher, Philip | The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge |
Kulp, Christopher B. | Realism/Antirealsim and Epistemology |
Lehrer, Keith | Theory of Knowledge |
Moser, Paul K. | Knowledge and Evidence |
Nozick, Robert | Philosophical Investigations |
Plantinga, Alvin | Warrant and Proper Function |
Pojman, Louis | What Can We Know? |
Pojman, Louis | Theory of Knowledge: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 2 nd Edition |
Pollock, John | Contemporary Theories of Knowledge |
Price, H. H. | Perception |
Putnam, Hilary | Reason, Truth and History |
Quine & Ullian | The Web of Belief |
Quine, W.V.O. | Ontological Relativity and Other Essays |
Quine, W.V.O. | From a Logical Point of View |
Quine, W.V.O. | Pursuit of Truth |
Rorty, Richard | Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
Searle, John R. | The Construction of Social Reality |
Shope, Robert K. | The Analysis of Knowing |
Stroud, Barry | The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism |
Villanueva, Enrique | Truth |
William, Michael | Problems of Knowledge |
Williams, Bernard | Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry |
Williamson, Timothy | Knowledge and Its Limits |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Philosophical Investigation |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Remarks on the Foundations of mathematics |
DePaul, Michael | Resurrecting Old-Fashioned Foundationalism |