A Brief History of Epistemology

This is an introductory program on epistemology, which travels from Plato’s cave to Gettier cases, while addressing, along the way, questions such as: What does it mean to really know something? And how can one know that one knows it? Explaining the principles of epistemology are Rutgers University’s Alvin Goldman and Peter Klein and Princeton University’s Alexander Nehamas and Daniel Garber. Their insights, in combination with incisive excerpts from Aristotle’s De Anima, Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, Locke’s An Essay on Human Understanding, Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature, and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, illuminate the complexity of “truth.” This is part of the 2004 series on Great Ideas of Philosophy. #philosophy #epistemology #plato #skepticism #historyofphilosophy