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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Sheffield Main
Full Time
Dec 2027
3 Year
Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. It is concerned with the mind’s relation to reality It requires considering the different psychological routes to knowledge, including different processes of reasoning – logical and scientific – introspection, perception, memory, testimony and intuition. And it requires considering the nature of the known reality: How we know our own minds differs from how we know the minds of others; social realities are differently known to mental ones; the route to scientific knowledge is different to the route to mathematical knowledge; and moral knowledge is not merely factual. And throughout these debates there is the constant undercurrent of scepticism, which suggests that we can never know the reality behind appearances.
