Theory of Knowledge I

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Students get acquainted, through skeptical challenges, with one of the most influential traditional approaches to the theory of knowledge as a philosophical discipline primarily engaged in an inquiry of the possibilities and limits of human knowledge.

Course description: The theoretical part of the course includes a number of topics related to skepticism: Descartes' formulation of skeptical arguments and the method of doubt, philosophical suppositions of skepticism, the logical structure and conclusions of skeptical arguments, the basic traditional and contemporary philosophical attempts to respond to the skeptical challenge. Exercises involve analysis, through student presentations and discussions of the texts relevant to the topics previously covered by lectures..

Learning Outcomes: Familiarity with skepticism as a philosophical standpoint, the issues that it raises, its arguments and philosophical responses to them.