Definitions

• Epistemology (1)

• Empiricism (2)

• Rationalism (2) 

• Posteriori Knowledge (2) 

• Priori Knowledge (2) 

• Traditional True belief (What are the conditions?) (3)

• Justified True Belief (Who first coined this? What are the conditions?) (3)

• Contemporary View on Knowledge (What is the fourth condition?) (3)

• Direct vs indirect knowledge (3)

• Competence vs propositional knowledge (3)

• Foundationalism vs anti-foundationalism (3) 

• Skepticism (4)

• Brain in the Vat (5)

Key Philosophers: 

• Confucius (1)

• Plato (1/7)

  • What are Plato’s stages of an intellectual journey? (7) 

• Aristotle (1/8)

  • What is inductive reasoning? (8)

• Descartes (1)

  • What is deductive reasoning? (7) 

• Kant (1/9)

• Bertrand Russell (3) 

• Edmund Gettier (3)

• Pyrrho of Elis (4)

• Aenesidemus (4)

• Hillary Putnam (5) 

• Noam Chomsky (7)

  • Foundation of language vs surface structure language 

• John Locke (8)

  • From sense experience to ideas 

• David Hume (8)

Key Concepts

• Three contemporary theories of epistemology (9) 

  • Pragmatism 

  • Deconstructionism 

  • Edifying 

• Epistemological theories of truth (10)

  • Correspondence Theory 

  • Coherence Theory

  • Pragmatic Theory