Knowledge, Belief, and Doubt: Philosophy Unit 2, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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Knowledge, Belief, and Doubt is Unit 2 of Philosophy and Logic: Reasoning About Reality, Knowledge, and Value (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Philosophy course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 94 pages.

• The justified-true-belief (JTB) definition of knowledge
• The Gettier problem as a counterexample to the sufficiency of JTB
• The regress problem / Agrippa’s trilemma
• The dream argument / evil-demon argument (Cartesian skepticism)
• Foundationalism and coherentism as responses to the regress problem
• Application of the three regress-responses to a novel skeptical scenario
• Fideism, evidentialism, and reformed epistemology as positions on faith and reason
• The is/ought distinction and the appearance/reality distinction
• The abstract structure shared by all three regress-responses (what each treats as not needing further justification and why)
• Comparative analysis of two regress-problem responses (midterm task)

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.