PHIL 250 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Tacit Knowledge, W Series

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 250
• Professor: David Bakhurst

Document Summary

Many philosophers would deny a single primary question. They would ask why should there be a unifying questions to encompass a discipline that is so vast. Epistemology: the study of knowledge in the informational sense for example, knowl- edge that : in contrast tacit knowledge is knowledge that one simply knows or doesn"t know they know but doesn"t put it to mind. Epistemology is usually defined, in mainstream epistemology of the anglo-american kind, as the theory of knowledge (where knowledge is understood in the. Informational sense knowledge that such-and-such is the case, rather than knowl- edge how (e. g. to ride a bike) or knowledge of (e. g. edge how (e. g. to ride a bike) or knowledge of (e. g. joe knows sally; sandra knows. Venice) or knowledge to (e. g. rufus knows not to tease the cat; paul knows to set the alarm if he"s going out).