There will be a midterm, final, and one ten-page paper. Students will write three papers, one on each author. They should aim to submit a draft of each as the discussion of each philosopher is completed so that I might critique and return it for fine tuning. The appropriate boos are Decartes' Meditations, Principles,Le Monde , Hume's Enquiry , and Kant's First Critique Phil. This course is designed to give a systematic understanding of the central issues in epistemology.
Epistemology is conceived as the theory of knowledge and justification.
The focus of the course will be entirely on recent and contemporary literature. Our readings will be selected from an anthology of contemporary writings on these subjects. There will be three examinations, whose format is yet to be determined. There will be no comprehensive final examination in the course. Introduction to Philosophy of Law 2.