SK 791

This course is a general introduction to central issues in contemporary epistemology or the nature of knowledge. The course focuses on some of the central questions of philosophy and is organized around several themes including the justification of knowledge, the nature of empiricism and knowledge as power. A final and critical theme engages with post and anti-colonial discourses, and Indigenous epistemology in considering the nature of non-European or non-Eurocentric epistemology.