Philosophy 324 - II.Limits of Knowledge:Exploring the Boundaries of the Unknowable

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St Lawrence University

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Several of the most striking and important results of Western philosophy and science are findings about what we cannot know. Can we definitively draw lines beyond which it is impossible to know? If we do so, are we not claiming to know at least a little about what lies beyond these lines? How could this be possible? In this course, we study various examples of running into the limits of knowability: from medieval ruminations on the unknowability of God to G?el's Incompleteness Theorem,Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the philosophical implications of chaos theory. Prerequisite: Philosophy 204 or permission of the instructor.

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4.00

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www.stlawu.edu

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(315) 229-5011

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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