PHIL 4 - Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Its Limits

    Recent Professors
    Miguel A. Rodriguez, Stephan F. Johnson, Matt Michaelis, David A. Dell'Agostino
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
    Class Size
    45 students
    Credits
    3
    Fall 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 8A · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area A3
    Description
    ESL 188 The tools and techniques of philosophical reasoning: reading argu- mentative prose; analyzing conceptual models; writing critical essays. Problems of knowledge: the criteria of reliable knowledge; the formu- lation and justification of beliefs; the sources and limits of knowledge; beliefs about the physical world, the past and future, and other minds. Critical standards applied to related metaphysical issues: theism, mind and self-identity, determinism. UC/CSU
    Usually Held
    Mon 2:10pm–5:00pm, Tue Thu 9:40am–10:55am, Tue 6:10pm–9:00pm