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Module EPISTEMOLOGY

Module code: PH206
Credits: 5
Semester: 2
Department: PHILOSOPHY
International: Yes
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This module examines a range of historically significant and contemporary views on the nature, origins, extent and justificatory status of human knowledge. It commences with Plato’s discussion on the nature of knowledge in the Theaetetus. On the basis of Descartes’s rationalist formulation of the problem of knowledge in the Meditations, the module then examines the quest for certainty and scepticism, as well as their motivation in the modern period. The responses of Locke and Hume will be then examined as well as the epistemology of Immanuel Kant. The module concludes with some contemporary discussion on ‘the Gettier Problem’, foundationalism and coherentism.

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