Discipline

Theory of Knowledge

Course Number
HS 805
Credit
6
Discipline Type
Philosophy

Some Methodological Questions.
(a) Analysis and Philosophy
(b) Philosophy and Argument Scepticism and Rational Justification for Knowledge; A Historical Perspective. (a) Academic vs. Pyrrhonian Scepticism (b) Contemporary Philosophy Scepticism about Senses/Objects and the Problem of Perception. (a) The Problem (b) The Argument from Illusion
(c) Status of sense-data and the dichotomy between "ideas" and "objects", "sense-data" and "material thing", "the given" and "the constructed or inferred," "experience" and its object.
(d) Hierarchical Structure of Knowledge; sense - data language as the foundation Reductionism.
(e) Causal Theory of Perception
(f) Phenomenalism
(g) Recent Observations
(h) Work on Perception from interdisciplinary point of view. Scepticism about the past: The problem of Memory. Scepticism about the future: The problem of Induction. (a) Scepticism and grounds of induction (b) Probability. Scepticism about the Self: The problem of Personal Identity. Scepticism about the selves: The problem of other minds. Knowledge and Belief. The Object of Knowledge. The sources of Knowledge and the nature of proposition.

Reference

Swartz, Robert, J. (Ed.), Perceiving, Sensing & Knowing, Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co., 1965. A.J. Ayer, The Argument from Illusion in Foundations of Empirical Knowledge, Macmillan Students" Edition, 1969. A.J. Ayer, Perception in the Problem of Knowledge, Pelican Book, 1968. J.F. Soltis, Seeing, Knowing and Believ