6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1023482ANR for all students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
In this exploratory course, students are familiarised with epistemology, with some historical and contemporary issues in epistemology, and with the epistemological status of science and pseudoscience. The course consists of three parts that each focus on a specific question/theme, namely:
Part 1. What is knowledge?
Part 2. What is scientific knowledge?
Part 3. How does scientific knowledge differ from pseudoscience epistemologically?
The course will consist of a reader with mostly English state-of-the-art literature. This course will be made available at the beginning of the semester.
After successfully completing this course, the student is/has:
- able to adequately handle the most important concepts within epistemology and to explicate them carefully;
- acquired insight into a number of important historical and contemporary issues within epistemology;
- able to critically explicate the epistemological status of science; and
- acquired sufficient epistemological insight to explain the differences between scientific and pseudo-scientific claims/theories.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The written exam determines 100% of the final grade.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Philosophy and Moral Sciences: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Philosophy and Moral Sciences: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)