Important note to students: This course can be taken by both Master's and Doctoral students of the Philosophy Department. Furthermore:

1.  If you are a fourth year undergrad student in the Philosophy Department and would like to take the course, contact me by email.

2.  Similarly, if you are a graduate student in a department other than Philosophy and would like to take this course, send me an e-mail with a description of your academic background and the (somehow relevant) courses you have taken before.

Regarding the medium of lectures: The lectures will be held physically on campus.  It seems improbable at this point for me to allow registered students to follow the lectures on-line alone (via Zoom etc.).

Course Description:  The general theme of this grad-level course is "knowledge and truth after epistemology."  One striking characteristic of philosophical enterprise today is that a considerable number of the theoreticians of knowledge and truth are seen to have grown suspicious of certain crucial aspects of the venerable field of epistemology and its fundamental presumptions.  The contemporary representatives of the counter movement often draw their inspiration from such philosophers as Hegel, Nietzsche, James and Heidegger who had collectively provided a forceful criticism of the customary rationalist and empiricist perspectives.  The 20th century philosophy literature also witnessed various radical stances as represented, for instance, by the later Wittgenstein and M. Foucault, stances which now provide a significant discursive axis and a point of departure for the anti-mentalist and/or anti-realist viewpoints.  In this course, we will try to understand the essential features of the movement against traditional epistemology and also assess the tenability and strengths of the pertinent critique through selected readings.  Our main focus will be on Barry Allen's rather unorthodox and controversial account of human knowledge.  We will also read and discuss Michael Lynch's pluralistic understanding of truth.  (See below for other details)