We will start from the basics and cover classical debates in epistemology relating to the definition and structure of knowledge, scepticism, reliabilism, etc. We will then move on to a detailed study of virtue epistemology and the newer debates in this area. A significant part of the course will be about the more contemporary themes in epistemology such as feminist epistemology, epistemic humility, fake news and post-truth debates, and epistemology of terrorism. Overall, students can expect to learn about the different ways knowledge, belief and justification are understood and the implications of these understandings.
- Teacher: Hadeel Naeem
Cross-lsited with PLSC 30. Prerequisite: PLSC 101 Political thought from early Greece through the 17th Century using original sources from philosophers including Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau and Hegel.
- Teacher: Ghazala Irfan
- Teacher: Qalandar Memon
Rise of critical thought in the pre-Socratic Greek world and its development through the issues related to deriving the morally right and individual significance by understanding the universe's structure and function, classic Platonic and Aristotelian wor
- Teacher: Ghazala Irfan
This course will provide an introduction to the basic forms of reasoning and their linguistic expressions to enable students to think clearly and critically. By learning the methods and techniques used to evaluate arguments, the class will gain elementary
- Teacher: Taimoor Farouk
This course will provide an introduction to the basic forms of reasoning and their linguistic expressions to enable students to think clearly and critically. By learning the methods and techniques used to evaluate arguments, the class will gain elementary
- Teacher: Taimoor Farouk
Selection of the problems historically identified as philosophical along with the methods philosophers have used to solve these problems including justice and moral order, evaluation and justification of belief and human value and dignity, identifying the
- Teacher: Ghazala Irfan
Selection of the problems historically identified as philosophical along with the methods philosophers have used to solve these problems including justice and moral order, evaluation and justification of belief and human value and dignity, identifying the
- Teacher: Ghazala Irfan