epistemology overview in epistemology

epistemology encompasses questions such as; what is knowledge, how knowledge is acquired, what are the conditions of knowledge, what are the structure and limits of knowledge, and, what people know… it explores the nature and justification of knowledge, which is the awareness and understanding of reality through reason and the rationality of belief.

main headings/articles:

• introduction (1)
• The Greek sophists
• Plato's epistemology (1)
• Aristotle's epistemology (1)
• platonism (11)
• scepticism (31)
• problem of universals (18)
• philosophy of language (25 lectures)
  • theories of truth (6)
    • The correspondence theory
    • The coherence theory
    • The pragmatic theory
• philosophy of religion (intro) (34)
  • The problem of evil (3)
  • William Rowe’s argument from evil regarding the existence of god (1)
  • The divine hiddenness argument on the existence of god (2)
    
  • Humean arguments against theism (1)
  • Theodore Drange’s argument from non-belief (1)

• • Arguments for the existence of god
    • Anslem of Canterbury’s ontological argument for the existence of god
    • William Paley’s teleological argument for the existence of god
    • The Thomist synthesis (and Thomas Aquinas’s five rational proofs)
    • Samuel Clarke’s cosmological argument for the existence of god