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PHL 331 Theories of Knowledge

300 levelArts & Humanities10 topics

PHL 331 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature and scope of epistemology
  2. The definition of knowledge: belief, truth and justification
  3. Sources of knowledge: reason and experience
  4. Continental rationalism (Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza)
  5. British empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume)
  6. Theories of truth
  7. The problem of scepticism
  8. Foundationalism and coherentism
  9. The problem of other minds
  10. Verification and justification of knowledge claims

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Nature and scope of epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies knowledge: what it is, how it is acquired, what justifies belief, and where its limits lie. For examination purposes, you must master both the meaning of epistemology and its scope, because most questions test whether you can distinguish knowledge from mere opinion, identify sources of knowledge, and explain the main problems epistemology investigates.

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