PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy : What we can Know

Mondays 2.30 -4.30 pm

Starts 5th October

(19th October is a Holiday)

Bettina Lange

8 Week Course £72.00

Philosophers have always thought about what we can know and whether what think we know is true. This course offers an overview of influential philosophical ideas regarding knowledge. We will cover how reliable our intuitions are; the key philosophical definition of knowledge as ‘justified true belief’, whether there are reliable tests of knowledge such as Popper’s falsifiability test; different types of knowledge; scientific from experience; abstract; knowledge as pattern or habit; practical knowledge (‘knowledge how’); tacit knowledge; moral knowledge; knowledge as wisdom. At the end of the course we will consider two influential philosophical theories of knowledge, scepticism and realism.

Knowledge of philosophy is not expected.

The course will be followed after Christmas by a course on philosophical theories of truth and post-truth.

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