• to introduce the students to the main schools of thought in contemporary epistemology;
• to analyse in detail some of the key epistemological concepts, like knowledge, truth, justification, verisimilitude, etc.;
• to give a basic understanding of the main philosophical trends dominating contemporary epistemology.

• clearly understand the scope and limits of human knowledge;
• analyze typical epistemological arguments used in the cognitive science literature;
• detect typical flaws and fallacies in the epistemological arguments used in cognitive science.

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