6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1023483ANW for working students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
Educational team
Steffen Ducheyne (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
24 contact hours Lecture
130 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

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?

Additional info
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.
Learning Outcomes

General competences

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.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Examen mondeling with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The written exam determines 100% of the final grade.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

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)