Teaching Theory of Knowledge

BRIDGE COURSES

      While epistemology can be taught as a relatively self-contained subject, there are also important links between epistemology and other fields: both intra-philosophical and extra-philosophical fields. This section of the booklet makes some proposals and provides some bibliographies for bridge courses that explore a few of these links. One subsection describes approaches to the interface between epistemology and cognitive psychology (or, more broadly, cognitive science). A second describes approaches to the overlap between epistemology and the philosophy of science. A third catalogues the literature on the interpretation of probability and its bearing on problems of inductive inference. A fourth focuses on epistemological ramifications of current linguistic theory. In all cases the relevant literature might be organized differently with equal or greater fruitfulness. Many proposals are more in the nature of suggestive ideas than attempts to provide orthodox or definitive structures to the bridge areas.