Epistemology Teacher Resources

Scholars take part in a philosophical discussion about truth, thoughts, and feelings following a reading of Tiger-Tiger is it True? by Byron Katie and Hans Wilhelm. 

In this online interactive philosophy worksheet, learners respond to 7 short answer and essay questions about Crito by Plato. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet. 

In this literature worksheet, students respond to 27 short answer and essay questions about Hume's Concerning the Principles of Morals. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding." Students may submit their answers to be scored.

This site is a discussion of Descartes influential epistemological problems. Addresses Descartes' characterization of knowledge, his methods, his major arguments and mistakes, and his most enduring contributions to modern philosophy....

In this Wireless Philosophy video, Geoff Pynn (Northern Illinois) introduces virtue epistemology, an approach to epistemology that takes intellectual virtue as the central concept in discussions of theory of knowledge. Along the way, he...

Wikipedia offers an in-depth, advanced look at the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of knowledge and truth--epistemology. It gives details about the differences between the Rationalists and the Empiricists on their views,...

Article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy addresses issues of epistemic justication in the contemporary theory of "virtue epistemology." Author presents a half-dozen varieties of the theory, considering specific arguments for...

In this Wireless Philosophy video, Geoff Pynn (Northern Illinois) introduces virtue epistemology, an approach to epistemology that takes intellectual virtue as the central concept in discussions of theory of knowledge. Along the way, he...

Excellent article examining several contemporary epistemological proposals for understanding "faith" philosophically. First discusses "evidentialism", then subjects it to critiques from several differing perpectives. Clearly written but...

In this video, Michael introduces the Sleeping Beauty problem. This is a problem in formal epistemology about how to correctly assign probabilities to an odd scenario in which we flip a coin and, depending on the outcome, wake Sleeping...

The original interpretation of the history of epistemology considered in light of modern evolutionary theory and cybernetics models. Despite this inclination, the author presents a fair and useful overview of that history with helpful...

Wonderful introduction to the topic. Historical overview up to Descartes summarizes epistemological questions in ancient and classical thought. From there, lists the contemporary problems of epistemology that follow after Cartesian...

People tend to value knowledge; it's better to know something than just to believe it, even if your belief is correct by pure luck. But why? What's so great about knowledge? In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jeremy Fantl (University of...

Everybody has false beliefs, including you. But that means everyone's beliefs are self-contradictory. If we wrote down everything you believe in a book, we'd have to include one more statement in the book's preface: 'some of the...

'But why?' In this Wireless Philosophy video, Kevin McCain (University of Alabama at Birmingham) explains the Epistemic Regress Problem. The epistemic regress problem arises from the need to give a reason for your belief, a reason for...

After many failed attempts to construct an analysis of knowledge, some philosophers began to wonder whether knowledge was resistant to analysis, and why that might be so. In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jennifer Nagel (University of...

In this video, Marc Lange (UNC) introduces the paradox of confirmation, one that arises from instance confirmation, the equivalence condition, and common inference rules of logic. [6:29]

In this video, Sinan Dogramaci (The University of Texas at Austin) explains the puzzle of grue. He discusses how this puzzle undercut the attempt to formally develop inductive logic, the logic of probabilistic support.

Tom asks whether it is moral to believe something even when you have no evidence that it is true. He discusses a classic debate on that subject, between philosophers William James and William Clifford.

Caspar asks: can science tell us everything there is to know about the world? He tells us about a famous argument that it can't, sometimes called 'the knowledge argument' or 'the Mary argument', due to philosopher Frank Jackson. If the...

It is common to think that Faith and Reason must be in conflict. Often this view emerges because how we use the term 'believe' is ambiguous. In this video we clarify how this term is used and how Faith and Reason can be properly related.

Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) considers whether we're as rational as we often think we are. Help us caption & translate this video!

Common sense takes for granted that we can typically just see physical objects without further hindrance. In this Wireless Philosophy video, Eugen Fischer (University of East Anglia) presents the 'argument from hallucination' that...