Course Overview
Rethink everything you know about the world as you delve into the fascinating field of epistemology.
Understanding Knowledge
Humans have been attempting to understand what knowledge truly is and how we acquire it for thousands of years. In today’s fast-paced world, where information is abundant but truth is scarce, this quest becomes increasingly challenging.
Taught by acclaimed Professor Joseph H. Shieber, these 24 mind-bending lectures take you from ancient philosophers to contemporary neurobiologists, exploring the connection between knowledge, belief, and truth.
Course Lectures
- Philosophy and Transformative Experiences – 29 min
- Knowledge, Truth, and Belief – 28 min
- Foundationalism: Descartes’s Evil Demon – 28 min
- The Coherence Theory of Knowledge – 31 min
- Externalist Theories of Knowledge – 29 min
- Problems with Self-Knowledge – 29 min
- Does Sense Perception Support Knowledge? – 30 min
- Perception: Foundationalism and Externalism – 28 min
- The Importance of Memory for Knowledge – 28 min
- Confabulations and False Memories – 28 min
- The Extended Mind – 28 min
- Do We Have Innate Knowledge? – 29 min
- How Deduction Contributes to Knowledge – 29 min
- Hume’s Attack on Induction – 28 min
- The Raven Paradox and New Riddle of Induction – 28 min
- Know-How versus Propositional Knowledge – 30 min
- Knowledge Derived from Testimony – 28 min
- Social Psychology and Source Monitoring – 29 min
- Testimony through Social Networks – 28 min
- The Reliability of Scientific Testimony – 29 min
- Testimony in the Media – 28 min
- Pragmatic and Moral Encroachment – 27 min
- Radical Skepticism: The Brain in a Vat – 28 min
- The Future of Epistemology – 37 min

