Course Description:  This course is intended to be the first part of a general introduction to theory of knowledge.  It will cover some historical material as well as readings from contemporary epistemology literature.  A certain portion of the course will be devoted to certain important historical figures who played the major role in the formation of what we recognize as the principal problems of epistemology.  We will discuss the controversies surrounding such issues as the sources of knowledge, skepticism and analysis of knowledge.  (See below for details)