This course is an exploration of knowledge and how it is attained. What is worth knowing? What can be known? Are there different methods of understanding the same thing? Throughout the semester we will raise these and other questions as we look at diffferent thinkers and different disciplines. Several professors from the college, plus a variety of non-traditional experiences, will guide us in learning how various fields approach these epistemological questions.
We will be reading the following:
Sacks, An Anthopoligist on Mars, selections
Freud, The Interpretation
of Dreams, chapters 2 and 3
Jung, Man and His Symbols
Plato, The Republic,
Book VII through line 518e
Grimm, Fairy Tales
Hansel and Gretel
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Two Brothers
The Fisherman and his Wife
The Twelve Brothers
Cinderella
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolution
Davidson and Lytle, After the Fact
Sophocles, Oedipus
the King
Long, The Myths of Creation
Shakespeare, Othello
Kitzmiller
v. Dover Area School District