Syllabus
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Course Code: PHI-HC-103 Course Name: Western Epistemology |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Sophists: Skepticism; Socrates: Method of Knowledge; Plato: Distinction between Knowledge and Opinion. Aristotle: Theory of Knowledge. | |
| 2 | Francis Bacon: Inductive Method; Rene Descartes: Method and Criterion of Knowledge; Benedict Spinoza: Theory of Knowledge; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz: Theory of Knowledge. | |
| 3 | John Locke: Origin of Knowledge; Nature and Validity of Knowledge; Limits of Knowledge; George Berkeley: Theory of Knowledge, ḛsst ḛss percipi; David Hume: Origin and Nature of Knowledge; Validity of Knowledge. | |
| 4 | Immanuel Kant: The Critical Philosophy; Copernican Revolution; Classification of Judgments, the Problem of Synthetic Judgment a priori ; George Wilhelm Hegel: Dialectical Method. | |
