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PHI 330
Epistemology, or the study of human knowledge, focuses on what we personally and socially consider to be truth vs. opinion. The philosophy of knowledge identifies the truth, belief and justification of what we know. This online philosophy course explores human knowledge, cataloguing what we know and what our beliefs are, and asks if humans are rational creatures.
This advanced course is ideal for students who have already taken philosophy or critical thinking courses.
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Credit hours 3
Course fee: $10
General studies: Counts toward undergraduate humanities and social behavioral sciences requirement.
Course components: Quizzes, exams, online discussions, cumulative readings and research paper.
Prerequisites: ENG 102, 105, or 108 with C or better; minimum 25 hours.
State the traditional analysis of knowledge and articulate the importance of each of the necessary conditions of knowledge in the definition.
Explain the Gettier problem and its significance for the traditional analysis of knowledge, and explain and critically evaluate the responses to the Gettier problem given by evidentialism, foundationalism, coherentism, no false grounds, no defeaters, non-evidentialism, proper function theory, truth-tracking theory, the causal theory and reliabilism.
Describe the problem of skepticism, and articulate and critically evaluate responses to the problem of skepticism.
Recognize a "contextualist" or "relativist" account of knowledge, and explain and critically evaluate contextualist approaches as responses to skepticism and to the epistemology of disagreement.