Richland Community College The Problem of Knowledge Epistemology Studies Essay

Topic #1: The Problem of KnowledgeChapter 3 of our text focuses on epistemology: “the study of knowledge, itsnature, its sources, and its justification.” As you know at this point in thecourse, much philosophical thinking and theorizing is related to a quest for ‘thetruth’ using our reason. But some information about how our minds actuallydeal with ‘the truth’, with facts, presents significant problems for how weunderstand our relationship to knowledge, to reality, to our own use of reason.Read this article from The New Yorker and write an essay that discusses thearticle in relation to the assigned sections of Chapter 3. Your essay mustinclude specific reference to chapter 3 of our text as well as at least onereference to an article/entry in either The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy orThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, through quotation and/or paraphrase.The focus of your essay should be a philosophical discussion of our questfor and relationship to truth/reality.

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