PHIL 380

EPISTEMOLOGY

COURSE OUTLINE

SPRING 2008

1. Practical Matters/Overview                                            9. Augustine

                                                                                                            a. Contra Academicos

2. Introduction                                                                                         b. De Civitas Dei

a. Nature/Definition of "Philosophy"

            b. Divisions of Philosophy                                           10. Thomas Aquinas

            c. Epistemology                                                                         a. Summa Theologiae

                                                                                                            b. Selected Handouts

3. Human Knowledge

            a. Nature of Knowledge                                          11. Descartes

                        i. Justification                                                                 a. Meditations

                        ii. Truth

                        iii. Belief                                                    12. Berkeley

            b. Origin of Knowledge                                                      a. Treatise

                        i. Sensation/Perception

                        ii. Memory                                                           13. Hume

                        iii. Introspection                                                    a. Enquiry

                        iv. "A Priori"

                        v. Reason--Induction & Deduction                     14. Kant

            c. Limits of Knowledge                                                      a. Prolegomena

                        i. Skepticism--Knowledge & Justification

                                                                                                15. Contemporary Accounts

4. Pre-Socratics                                                                                  a. William James

            a. Anaxagoras                                                                              b. W.V. Quine

            b. Democritus                                                                              c. Gettier

                                                                                                            d. Feldman

5. Socrates                                                                                               e. Pollock

            a. The Sophists                                                                       f. Chisholm

                        i. Protagoras                                                                    g. Sosa

                        ii. Gorgias                                                                       h. W.V. Quine

                                                                                                            i. Putnam

6. Plato                                                                                                 j. Goldman

            a. Meno

            b. Phaedo                                                                         16. Buddhist Epistemology

            c. Republic                                                                                  a. Intro to Buddhism

            d. Theaetetus

7. Aristotle

            a. Posterior Analytics

            b. De Anima

8. Sextus Empiricus

            a. Outlines of Pyrrhonism