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
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Alston, William P. |
The Reliability of Sense Perception |
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Annas and Barnes |
The Modes of Scepticism |
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Aristotle |
On the Soul (tr. W. S. Hett) |
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Audi, Robert |
Epistemology |
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Ayer, A. J. |
The Problem of Knowledge |
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Bernecker and Dretske |
Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology |
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Bonjour and Sosa |
Epistemic Justification |
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Bonjour, Laurence |
The Structure of Empirical Knowledge |
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Bonjour, Laurence |
In Defense of Pure Reason |
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Chisholm, Roderick |
Theory of Knowledge |
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Chisholm, Roderick |
Perceiving: A Philosophical Study |
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Coady, C.A.J. |
Testimony |
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Davidson, Donald |
Inquires into Truth and Interpretation |
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Davidson, Donald |
Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective |
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Dretske, Fred I. |
Seeing and Knowing |
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Fogelin, Robert |
Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification |
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Fumerton, R. |
Metaepistemology and Skepticism |
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Goldman., Alvin |
Epistemology and Cognition |
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Greco and Sosa |
Blackwell Guide to Epistemology |
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Haack, Susan |
Evidence and Inquiry |
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Harman, Gilbert |
Change in View |
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Horwich, Paul |
Truth |
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Huemer and Audi |
Epistemology: Contemporary Readings |
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Jackson, Frank |
Perception: A Representation Theory |
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Kitcher, Philip |
The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge |
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Kulp, Christopher B. |
Realism/Antirealsim and Epistemology |
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Lehrer, Keith |
Theory of Knowledge |
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Moser, Paul K. |
Knowledge and Evidence |
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Nozick, Robert |
Philosophical Investigations |
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Plantinga, Alvin |
Warrant and Proper Function |
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Pojman, Louis |
What Can We Know? |
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Pojman, Louis |
Theory of Knowledge: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 2 nd Edition |
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Pollock, John |
Contemporary Theories of Knowledge |
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Price, H. H. |
Perception |
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Putnam, Hilary |
Reason, Truth and History |
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Quine & Ullian |
The Web of Belief |
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Quine, W.V.O. |
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays |
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Quine, W.V.O. |
From a Logical Point of View |
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Quine, W.V.O. |
Pursuit of Truth |
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Rorty, Richard |
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
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Searle, John R. |
The Construction of Social Reality |
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Shope, Robert K. |
The Analysis of Knowing |
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Stroud, Barry |
The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism |
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Villanueva, Enrique |
Truth |
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William, Michael |
Problems of Knowledge |
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Williams, Bernard |
Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry |
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Williamson, Timothy |
Knowledge and Its Limits |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig |
Philosophical Investigation |
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig |
Remarks on the Foundations of mathematics |
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DePaul, Michael |
Resurrecting Old-Fashioned Foundationalism |