This course provides major philosophers contributions to philosophy and a focused analysis of their theory of knowledge, especially the links between power, discourse, and knowledge. This will also introduce the methods and issues of contemporary analytic philosophy in the field of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and decision theory. Students can also explores some of the basic issues in aesthetics, including representation, expression, the definition of ‘art’, and conceptions of individual artworks, from a contemporary analytic perspective.
