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