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Epistemology

Code 5927
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Philosophy
Mode of delivery face-to-face
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes
• Introduction to main concepts of epistemology
• Understanding of the more comprehensive stages of historical-philosophical evolution of epistemology
• Demarcation of scientific activity, as well as its scope and limits, from parascience and other cultural manifestations.
At the end of the Curricular Unity course, students should be able to:
• Basics – Identify general themes and questions of epistemology;
• Scientifics – Understand theoretically the nuclear aspects of epistemological debate;
• Operational – Bring epistemological context to concrete research topics;
• Cross outcomes - Relationship with others, lead and communicate, mobilize resources, seize opportunities to know based on behavioral attitudes active, healthy morally and ethically, exposing themselves to criticism of their peers, respecting them.

Syllabus 1. What is epistemology?
2. What is knowledge? Knowledge as justified true belief. Kinds of knowledge.
3. What is truth? Theories of truth justification
4. Logical structure of explanation. Kinds of explanation
5. Determinism and causality. What is a scientific law?
6. Science in Greek ancient thought
7. Epistemology and the advent of modern science
8. Popper’s demarcation criterion for scientific knowledge; its reception by T. Kuhn and I. Lakatos
9. Remarks on the epistemological distinction between human and natural sciences.
10. Description of some epistemological problems specific to the domain of social sciences, arts and humanities.

Main Bibliography AMSTERDAMSKY, S. (Ed.), Enc. Einaudi – Explicação (vol. 33, Ed. Port.). (Lisboa: IN-CM, 1996)
BLANCHÉ, R. A Epistemologia. (Lisboa: Presença, 1975)
BERNECKER, S., PRITCHARD, D. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Epistemology. (NY/OX: Routledge, 2011)
CARRILHO, M. M. (Ed.). Epistemologia: Posições e Críticas. (Lisboa: F.C.G., 1991)
DANCY, J., SOSA, E., STEUP, M. (Eds.), A Companion to Epistemology. (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
GIL, F. (Org.), A Ciência Tal Qual se Faz. (Lisboa: Sá da Costa, 1999)
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.

Instructors

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André Barata

Course

Last updated on: 2012-05-15

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