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'''Epistemology''' is the theory of knowledge and looks at things such as what is knowledge? Can we know knowledge? How do we know?

This is a self study section on Epistemology where I'm studying from the book: '''Epistemology - A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge by Robert Audi'''. Some may wonder why I'm studying this or even care. It certainly is a bit dry or at the very least, not very applicable to my life. Well, I've developed an interest in philosophy. Ethics and morality really did get me into it, but upon my causal consumption I found myself becoming very interested in epistemology. It seems quite important to me to understand knowledge and whether I had good reasons for my own.

I asked for advice on where to start with philosophy and I received the same piece of advice - start where there's an interest. And I get it. Philosophy is a massive field and it's one that isn't easy to consume, so pick something that will get you into it.

This is me starting in a more formal manner, instead of just consuming random articles on random topics.

==Content==

:[[Chapter 1 Perception: Sensing, Believing, and Knowing]]

:[[Chapter 2 Theories of Perception: Sense Experience, Appearances, and Reality]]

:[[Chapter 3 Memory: The Preservation and Reconstruction of the Past]]

:[[Chapter 4 Consciousness: The Life of the Mind]]

:[[Chapter 5 Reason I: Understanding, Insight and Intellectual Power]]

:[[Chapter 6 Reason II: Sources of Justification, Knowledge, and Truth]]

:[[Chapter 7 Testimony: The Social Foundation of Knowledge]]

:[[Chapter 8 Inference and the Extension of Knowledge]]

:[[Chapter 9 The Architecture of Knowledge]]

:[[Chapter 10 The Analysis of Knowledge: Justification, Certainty, and Reliability]]

:[[Chapter 11 Knowledge, Justification, and Truth]]

:[[Chapter 12 Scientific, Moral, and Religious Knowledge]]

:[[Chapter 13 Skepticism I: The Quest for Certainty]]

:[[Chapter 14 Skepticism II: The Defense of Common Sense in the Face of Fallibility]]

:''Book and Notes Completed August 26 2018''

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