1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

The objective of this course is to familiarise the student with the basic epistemological concepts, problems, debates, and lines of reasoning.


Course content:

1. introduction (2L)
2. sources of knowledge and justification: perception (2L)
3. belief (2L)
4. justification (2L)
5. sources of knowledge and justification: introspection (2L)
6. correspodence theory of truth (2L)
7. skepticism (2L)
8. James's pragmatic theory of truth (2L)
9. coherence theory of truth (2L)
10. sources of knowledge and justification: reason (2L)
11. the Gettier problem, internalism i externalism (2L)
12. sources of knowledge and justification: memory, testimony (2L)
13. realism i antirealism (2L)
14. foundationalism i coherentism (2L)
15. naturalized epistemology (2L)

1. clearly understand the basic concepts of epistemology (such as justification, knowledge, prima facie justification etc.);
2. fully understand the central problems in epistemology (e. g. the Gettier problem) and their attempted solutions
3. reliably differentiate between main epistemological positions (such as foundationalism and coherentism, internalism and externalism, skepticism, etc.)
4. identify particular background epistemological beliefs implicitly present in a text
5. properly understand the most influential arguments for particualr epistemological positions;
6. precisely distinguish between various sources of knowledge and justification

1. Problem saznanja, Ayer, Alfred Jules, Nolit, Beograd, 1963.
2. Vjerovanje, opravdanje, znanje. Suvremene teorije znanja i epistemičkoga opravdanja, Čuljak, Zvonimir (ur.), Ibis grafika, 2003.
3. Uvod u suvremenu epistemologiju, Dancy, Jonathan, Hrvatski studiji, Zagreb, 2001.
4. Epistemologija. Vodič u teorije znanja, Greco, Sosa (ur.), Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb, 2004.
5. Filozofija spoznaje, Macan, Ivan, Filozofsko-teološki institut Družbe Isusove, Zagreb, 1997.
6. Problemi filozofije, Russell, Bertrand, Nolit, Beograd, 1980.

Mandatory course - Regular studij - Philosophy