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Supplementary Resources:
During this course, you may well come across terms and concepts with which you are unfamiliar. The following general references may be helpful. (All are in the Bond Library.)

Craig, E. ed. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (London/NY Routledge)

Edwards, E. and Pap, A., Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (London Macmillan)

Honderich, T. ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford OUP).

Also, any Dictionary of Philosophy may be useful.

If you are inexperienced in writing papers with a philosophical emphasis, the following may be helpful:

Seech, Z., Writing Philosophical Papers 4th ed. (Belmont Wadsworth/Thomson)

1. The purpose of this Subject.

All students involved in advanced coursework and research, in whatever field, are concerned with what has been called, albeit somewhat grandly, “the advancement of knowledge.” This is just as true in the Humanities and Social Sciences as it is in other broad branches of advanced study and research. In every field we are attempting to expose claims to knowledge which are not as soundly based as they appear, to further knowledge in areas where questions are still open, and to formulate claims about what is known which are clear and legitimately convincing.

In the tutorials, and in the prescribed written work, you will be invited to relate the issues discussed in lectures and in your reading to the issues that arise in your particular discipline or primary field of advanced study or research, e.g. Criminology, International Relations, Psychology, Education, Philosophy, Journalism, and Communication etc. Thus the aim is not merely to introduce you to the great questions of Epistemology but also for you to deepen your own understanding of your own primary field of academic endeavour by reference to these questions. This is consistent with Bond’s aim to produce postgraduates in the Humanities and the Social Sciences who are “a cut above the rest” because of the depth of understanding they bring to the theoretical and practical skills which you will have mastered.

2. Knowledge is Everywhere and Everywhere Disputed.

In trying to gain a deeper understanding of a concept, it is often useful to consider what it is contrasted with. In the case of knowledge, there are a number of contrasts:

• Knowledge is contrasted with ignorance
• Knowledge is contrasted with mere opinion (even though that opinion may be true)
• Knowing something is contrasted with a lucky guess (even though that guess may have been completely accurate – e.g. you are asked at a fair to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar to win a prize, and you guess 387; at the close of the competition the jar is emptied and the beans counted – exactly 387, so you were right, but did you know? (Only if you cheated!)
• Knowledge is contrasted with incompetence and ineptitude (e.g. you claim to be able to ride a horse but every time you mount one you fall off; your ineptitude or practical incompetence proves that you don’t really know at all).

TASK 1: Can you think of any other contrasts to knowledge? (Give further examples of the contrasts listed above, as well as of any new contrasts you ar本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。