Information Package / Course Catalogue
Epistemology
Course Code: FEL104
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

Some crucial answers to the questions presented below will be elaborated. What is knowledge? How are beliefs justified? What is the nature of knowledge? What is naturalized epistemology? What is truth? The student will gain the way of critical understanding on the certainty of knowledge, sense perception and the differences between knowledge and belief.

Course Content

What is knowledge? How are beliefs justified? What is the nature of knowledge? What is naturalized epistemology? What is truth? The student will gain the way of critical understanding on the certainty of knowledge, sense perception and the differences between knowledge and belief.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Aysun GÜR
Learning Outcomes
1.To be able to comprehend Knowledge and Epistemology
2.To be able to comprehend terminology of epistemology
3.To be able to comprehend the way of critical and philosophical understanding
4.To be able to comprehend the basic problems in philosophy of knowledge
5.To be able to compare approaches in philosophy of knowledge
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Aristoteles (1996) Metafizik, çev. Ahmet Arslan, Sosyal Yayınlar.
2.Aristoteles (2005). Posterior Analytics, çev. Ali Houshiary, Yapı Kredi Yayınları.
3.Platon (2009) Theaitetos ya da Bilgi Üstüne, çev. Macit Gökberk. Bu eser için bkz. Platon (2009) Diyaloglar, İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi, ss. 451-540.
4.Platon (2016) The Republic, çev. Hüseyin Demirhan, Islık Yayınları.
5.Platon (2018) Meno, çev. Özlem Beyoğlu, Pinhan Yayıncılık.
6.Descartes (2007) Meditations, çev. İsmet Birkan, BilgeSu Yayıncılık.
7.Descartes (2013) Discourse on Method, çev. Çiğdem Dürüşken, Kabalcı Yayınevi.
8.Leibniz (2021) Monadology, çev. Lale Levin Basut, BilgeSu Yayıncılık.
9.Locke (2023) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, çev. Vehbi Hacıkadiroğlu, Serbest Kitaplar.
10.Hume (2023) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, çev. Oruç Aruoba, Say Yayınları.
11.Kant (2015) Prolegomena, çev. İoanna Kuçuradi – Yusuf Örnek, TFK Yayınları.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Preparation Work
Course Description and Course Material
Week 2 - Theoretical
Introduction to Epistemology: Its Basic Concepts and its Problems
Week 2 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 3 - Theoretical
The Traditional Definition of Knowledge and Gettier Problem
Week 3 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 4 - Theoretical
Ancient Epistemology: Scepticism, Dogmatism and Plato on Knowledge
Week 4 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 5 - Theoretical
Plato on Divided Line Analogy and the Object of Knowledge
Week 5 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 6 - Theoretical
Analysis of Plato's Meno and Theaitetus
Week 6 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 7 - Theoretical
Aristotle on knowledge: The First Book of His Metaphysics
Week 7 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 8 - Theoretical
Aristotle on Knowledge: Analysis of Posterior Analytics
Week 9 - Theoretical
Types of Knowledge and the Fundamentals of Knowledge: Rationalism and Empricism
Week 9 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 10 - Theoretical
Descartes on Knowledge: Meditations and Discourse of Method
Week 10 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 11 - Theoretical
Leibniz and Locke on Knowledge: Monadology and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Week 11 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 12 - Theoretical
Hume on Knowledge and the Limits of Human Understanding: The Distinction Between Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact
Week 12 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 13 - Theoretical
Hume's Criticism of Causality and Kant's Copernican Revolution
Week 13 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 14 - Theoretical
Kant on the Fundamentals of Knowledge and Cognitive Faculties
Week 14 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Reading160348
Midterm Examination110212
Final Examination120222
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)124
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026