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Epistemology, Exam

Tampere University

Extent

5 cr

Course dates

1.8.2022- 31.7.2023

Application period

3.8.2022-15.8.2022

Fees

75,00 € (15 €/cr)

Campus

Hervanta Campus

Kauppi Campus

City Centre Campus

City

Tampere

Faculty or school

Faculty of Social Sciences

Language of instruction

English

Code

FIL.FIA.090

Study fields

Culture and languages

Mode of study

Independent studies

Study level

Intermediate studies

Completion of studies

Epistemology, 5 cr

Code: FIL.FIA.090

Language of instruction: English, Finnish

Description

The study module deals with various forms of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge, knowing how, interpretation, empathy, bodily knowledge, and social knowledge, and their relations. It provides a deeper understanding of views on justification, evaluates the very requirement of justification and familiarizes the students with various types of justification (logical and mathematical proof, experience, evidence, testimony, beliefs shared in a community etc.).

Teaching material

Audi, Robert 2011. Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge. 3rd Edition. Oxon: Routledge.

AND one of the following:

Haack, Susan 2009. Evidence and Inquiry: A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Epistemology.

Lackey, Jennifer and Sosa, Ernest (eds.) 2006. The Epistemology of Testimony. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Kusch, Martin 2002. Knowledge by Agreement. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fish, William 2010. Philosophy of Perception. Oxon: Routledge.

Pietersma, Henry 2000. Phenomenological Epistemology. New York: Oxford University Press.

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