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Epistemology without knowledge and without belief
Semester I 2004
(Footlights, 29 March, 12 noon)
Abstract
When knowledge-seeking (information-seeking) is conceptualized as a
questioning process (as e.g. in Socratic questioning), philosophers'
notions of knowledge and belief turn our not to play any role except
as criteria of stopping-points. Thus the theories of knowledge
acquisition and belief acquisition should be developed without using
the traditional notions of knowledge and belief. Moreover, it can be
argued that the processes of justification cannot be separated from
processes of discovery.
