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Philosopher in Meditation, oil on wood by Rembrandt, 1632; in the Musee du Louvre, Paris. (Image courtesy of WebMuseum: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/.)
Prof. Patrick Hawley
24.211
Fall 2003
Undergraduate
This course focuses on the study of problems concerning our concept of knowledge, our knowledge of the past, our knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of ourselves and others, and our knowledge of the existence and properties of physical objects in our immediate environment.
Hawley, Patrick. 24.211 Theory of Knowledge, Fall 2003. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-211-theory-of-knowledge-fall-2003 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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