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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D.) GÖKÇEN ÇATLI
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course To reach a level where students can come up with, and defend, their own views about fundamental epistemological issues.
Course Content Possibility of knowledge, the source of knowledge and accurate information,scope and limits of knowledge, Truth and significance, skepticism, empiricism, rationalism, critical philosophy, entuisionism, positivism and new positivism, analytic philosophy

Weekly Course Subjects

1Analysis of knowledge .
2The problem of criterion The Gettier problem
3Scepticism . Arguments for scepticism . Ancient scepticism
4Descartes: First Meditation
5Sources of knowledge and justification: rationalism and empiricism debate
6Plato on knowledge in Meno and Republic The golden age of rationalism: Descartes
7Aristotle and Epicuros on empiricism Locke: Essays
8EXAM
9Hume and the problem of induction
10Leibniz: New Essays
11Kant: selections from Critique of Pure Reason
12Where does knowledge come from? .The problem of perceptual knowledge .Testimony and memory .A priority and inference
13The structure of knowledge and justification . Foundationalism . Coherentism
14Quine and naturalized epistemology Continental epistemology

Resources

1-1-Bilgi Teorisi
Maurice Cornforth DORLİON YAYINLARI