#  PHIL 159: Epistemology 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2025 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/157096) 

 

 

 

**Lecture course.** An introduction to the theory of knowledge. Topics include skepticism about the external world, the analysis of knowledge, sensitivity and safety, the regress of reasons, foundationalism vs. infinitism vs. coherentism, and internalism vs. externalism



 

 

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