PHI 250 Epistemology: Belief, Knowledge, and Truth

An introduction to the discipline of epistemology.  Topics studied are the sources and kinds of human knowledge, the search for and criteria of certainty and truth, the processes of perception and conception, and religious belief.  Thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Locke, Descartes, Kant, and Newman and traditions such as skepticism, nominalism, rationalism, and empiricism are also covered.  

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