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Sep 27, 2024
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Spring 2014 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PY 101 - Knowledge and Reality Credit Hours: 3
An introductory course in theories of knowledge and reality. Topics will include justification of beliefs, theories of truth and meaning, relationships between beliefs, and meaning and reality.
Fulfills SUNY General Education – Humanities.
Course Outcomes Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- describe Locke’s view concerning abstract general ideas, and describe Berkeley’s view concerning abstract general ideas, explaining their reasons for their respective positions;
- describe Hume’s distinction between impressions and ideas. Relate Hume’s very important “ideas” that are not ideas to what Kant called “concepts”;
- describe Hume’s analysis of causation;
- describe the Goodman Paradox;
- define knowledge, including the Gettier condition; and
- explain the use of the word knowledge when applied to beliefs that are also agreed to be “not really knowledge”.
F/S (C, N, S)
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