What is the area of philosophy that deals with questions concerning knowledge and that considers various theories of knowledge?
Epistemology
What are the 3 types of knowledge and what do they correlate with?
Performative (“how”, a skill), propositiona (“hat”, can’t experience diretly), and relational/knowledge by acquaintance (“what”/”of”/”who”)
The typical focus of epistemology is on which type of knowledge?
Propositional
How has knowledge been defined since Plato?
True justified belief
What are the necessary conditions for knowledge?
Truth, justification, belief
What is the sufficient condition for knowledge?
True justified belief
What is a priori knowledge? What does it not tell us about?
Knowledge independent of any particular experience; Antyhing about the world
What is a posteriori knowledge?
Knowledge that depends on/is based on a particular experience in the world
What does empirical refer to?
Anything based on experience
What is the 1st epidemiological question?
Is it possible to have knowledge at all?
What is the 2nd epidemiological question?
Does reason provide us with knowledge of the world independently of experience?
What is the 3rd epidemiological question?
Does our knowledge represent reality as it really is?
What is the claim that we do not have knowledge?
Skepticism
What is the claim that reason/intellect is the primary source of fundamental knowledge about reality?
Rationalism
What is the claim that sense experience is the sole source of our knowledge about the world?
Empiricism
What is the claim that knowledge is neither already in the mind nor passively received from experience but that the mind constructs knowledge out of the materials of experience?
Constructivism
What is the claim that there is no universal, objective knowledge of reality because all knowledge is relative to either the individual or his culture?
Epidemiological relativism