Foundationalism has been called into question in recent decades. Some philosophers hold that epistemology is or should be a branch of psychology. One obvious question is how the psychology of belief relates to truth. Reliabilism holds that knowledge is just belief founded on a reliable method. The social dimensions of knowledge .
Most thinkers agree that social forces and contexts affect our knowledge.
Scientific method is sometimes said to provide protection from such determination. There are no prerequisites save a willingness to labor with difficult texts. Open to all students. This course satisfies the department requirement for a course in epistemology. The deep theoretical difference is between those who regard morality as a natural phenomenon, to be studied scientifically, and those who regard morality as somehow a domain apart.