Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.

"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture."

Rethink everything you know about the world as you delve into the fascinating field of epistemology

"Course No. 5701."

Title from container

Includes quizzes

Lecturer, Joseph H. Shieber

DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation

Closed-captioned

Disc 1,

Philosophy and transformative experiences -- Knowledge, truth, and belief -- Foundationalism : Descartes's evil demon -- Coherence theory of knowledge -- Externalist theories of knowledge -- Problems with self-knowledge

Disc 2,

Does sense perception support knowledge? -- Perception : foundationalism and externalism -- Importance of memory for knowledge -- Confabulations and false memories -- Extended mind -- Do we have innate knowledge?

Disc 3,

How deduction contributes to knowledge -- Humes' attack on induction -- Raven paradox and new riddle of induction -- Know-how versus propositional knowledge -- Knowledge derived from testimony -- Social psychology and source monitoring

Disc 4,

Testimony through social networks -- Reliability of scientific testimony -- Testimony in the media -- Pragmatic and moral encroachment -- Radical skepticism : the brain in a vat -- Future of epistemology