"Knowledge and Justification" is the name of NIU's undergraduate epistemology class. This class is currently being renovated; expect a brand new syllabus in January 2017.

Philosophy 311, Fall 2013.

1. Thinking About Knowledge
2. The JTB Analysis and the Gettier Problem
3. Responses to the Gettier Problem
4. Justified Belief and Evidence
5. More on Justified Belief and Evidence
6. Reliabilism
7. The Causal Theory of Knowledge
8. The Tracking Theory
9. Gendler on Stereotype Threat
10. Are Stereotype-Based Judgments Epistemically Rational?
11. Feminism and Epistemology
12. Jaggar on Love and Knowledge
13. Religious Disagreements
14. Religious Disagreements, Part II
15. Skepticism
16. Unger's Defense of Skepticism
17. Skepticism and the Practical Significance of Knowing
18. Putnam's Proof That We Aren't Brains In Vats
19. Skepticism About Induction
20. Skepticism and Alternative Hypotheses
21. Contextualism
22. Conspiracy Theories