Teaching Theory of Knowledge HISTORICAL SOURCES
FOR TEACHING EPISTEMOLOGY
- CONTRIBUTORS:
- Carolyn Black, Jim Bogen, Marjorie Clay, Mylan Engel, Keith Lehrer, Johann Marek (University Graz), Matthias Steup, Jim Stone, Tom Tymoczko.
FOUR MODULES
Although the Institute focused exclusively on contemporary epistemology, the participants wished to include some reference to historical sources in this teacher's manual. Two topics are organized around historical periods. The theory of knowledge in ancient philosophy provides a variety of philosophical issues and references to sources that are perhaps not familiar to contemporary epistemologists. Epistemology and the scientific revolution focuses on that fertile period when philosophers and scientists tried to lay the modern foundations for empirical and scientific knowledge. The other two modules are topical and present courses that sketch the development of skepticism on the one hand and the distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge on the other.
We have included readings, often of the classical philosophical works, but we recommend that teachers also consider Moser and vander Nat's anthology, Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches, (Oxford University Press, 1987).
Division of this unit: