Epistemology A

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Course ID:	3501-WISIP-EPA-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0223) Philosophy and ethics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Epistemology A
Name in Polish:	Epistemology A
Organizational unit:	Institute of Philosophy
Course groups:	Courses in foreign languages General university courses General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	elective monographs general courses
Short description:	Epistemology is concerned with such questions as “What, if anything, do we know?”, “What is knowledge?”. We will begin by looking at scientific knowledge. Despite the fact that it appears to be the most solid kind of knowledge, it has been subject to a serious skeptical challenge (Hume’s problem of induction). We will discuss the two main responses to the skeptical challenge (neo-inductivism and falsificationism), paying particular attention to their accounts of justification. In the second and main part of the course, we will take up the difficult issue of the analysis of knowledge. We will consider the challenge of Gettier’s problem. We will then consider various theories of justification (theories of the structure of knowledge) and the debate between internalism and externalism.
Full description:	Epistemology is concerned with such questions as “What, if anything, do we know?”, “What is knowledge?”. We will begin by looking at scientific knowledge. Despite the fact that it appears to be the most solid kind of knowledge, it has been subject to a serious skeptical challenge (Hume’s problem of induction). We will discuss the two main responses to the skeptical challenge (neo-inductivism and falsificationism), paying particular attention to their accounts of justification. In the second and main part of the course, we will take up the difficult issue of the analysis of knowledge. We will consider the challenge of Gettier’s problem. We will then consider various theories of justification (theories of the structure of knowledge) and the debate between internalism and externalism. Introduction. Rationalism and Empiricism. A priori A posteriori. Deduction and Induction. Weak Inductionism. Problem of Induction. Wide Inductionism. Popper’s Falsificationism Conceptual Analysis. The JTB Account of Knowledge. Gettier Problem. Internalist Solutions. Nozick’s Theory of Knowledge Goldman’s causal theory of knowledge. Goldman’s reliabilism. Internalism vs Externalism The Regress Problem. Foundationalism. Coherentism. Infinitism
Bibliography:	See a relevant section below (for a given academic year)
Learning outcomes:	- knows basic epistemological terminology in English (W03, W05) - knows the relation between epistemology and the main philosophical subdisciplines (W02) - knows the relation between epistemology and sciences of cognition (W02) - has knowledge of the main positions in epistemology (W06, W08) - understands the main epistemological problems (W06, W08) - knows what giving arguments and counterarguments consists in (W14) - knows what conceptual analysis consists in (W14) - is able to apply epistemological terminology correctly (U05) - is able to analyze epistemological arguments, identify its crucial premises as well as understand the relations between the conclusions and premises (U04, U07, U08, U09) - is able to give arguments for and against the main positions in contemporary epistemology (U07, U8, U09, U16) - is open to discussion (K02) - is open to new proposals of solutions to problems (K02)
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	See relevant section below (for a given academic year)

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