Epistemology

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Epistemology is the science of how we know things, and in this large lecture course the material follows how the primary understanding of fact and knowledge developed over the years, starting in ancient Greece with Aristotelean philosophy and moving the middle age, enlightenment, and so on. It focuses on different schools of knowledge such as empiricism, scientism, theology, etc. Furthermore it focuses on how terms like 'fact' and 'science' were defined at different times and how certain periods relate to ones before or after it. Finally, the last part of the course deals with how knowledge and mental illness has been treated over time and how people presume to know what is occurring in the brain and how they have have been treated through medicine and therapy. This is a lecture class taught in French with a final written exam at the end.