Philosophy 122

This is an upper-division course on the philosophical theory of knowledge. We consider ourselves to know many things: the Sun will rise tomorrow, 1+1=2, the Earth is not flat, Plato wrote The Republic, murder is wrong, etc. But what is knowledge, and how do we acquire it? In this course, we will examine various skeptical arguments—arguments that cast doubt on the possibility of certain kinds of knowledge—and the responses to such arguments.