Description : Students are going to discuss some of the most fundamental problems of epistemology: what are the limits of human knowledge, how are we to justify our beliefs etc. Moreover they will attend to the relation of knowledge with society: how science, education and media built on our belief systems. Students are encouraged to follow the philosophical debate on the nature, the purpose and the limits of knowledge and to discuss the arguments posed by philosophers.
Outline : - what is knowledge
- where do our beliefs come from? what is reason, perception, emotion, language
- do I know via my mind or my body?
- what is different about scientific knowledge?
- what are we supposed to learn at school?