GEOL-1021EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Participant Observation, Physical Universe, Inductivism

• School: Laurentian
• Department: Earth Sciences / Sciences de la terre
• Course: GEOL-1021EL
• Professor: Pedro Jugo

Document Summary

The concept of knowledge underlies all academic disciplines and all our engagement with the world. We think of knowledge primarily as a successful mental state, in the form of belief, skill or acquaintance. What makes a mental state successful, and allows it to count as knowledge, is primarily an accord with the world. Acquiring knowledge is therefore a matter of ensuring that our mental states are in accord with the world in appropriate ways. In this lecture, we will investigate how philosophers have talked about knowledge, what useful concepts of knowledge look like, and what this means for acquiring knowledge. How scientific and scholarly disciplines make sense of the world. How to assess and place the contributions of different disciplines. Classification of forms of knowledge: focus on positional knowledge. What is knowledge: knowledge as justified true belief. What is truth: correspondence theory of truth.