Scope
What criteria can we use to distinguish between knowledge, belief and opinion?
How do we distinguish claims that are contestable from claims that are not?
Are there situations where “knowing how” is more important than “knowing that”?
Why should we care about acquiring knowledge?
Why are the criteria for what counts as knowledge not obvious?
Can other people know us better than we know ourselves?
How do our interactions with the material world shape our knowledge?
Perspectives
What shapes my perspective as a knower?
How much of our knowledge depends on our interactions with other knowers?
Is the truth what the majority of people accept?
How do empathy and imagination help us to understand other perspectives?
Presented with the belief system of a community of knowers, how can we decide what we personally believe?
Are there types of knowledge that are specifically linked to particular communities of knowers?
How can we know that current knowledge is an improvement on past knowledge?
Methods and tools
How do we acquire knowledge?
What constitutes a “good reason” for us to accept a claim?
Are intuition, evidence, reasoning, consensus and authority all equally convincing methods of justification?
Does knowledge always require some kind of rational basis?
How do our expectations and assumptions have an impact on how we perceive things?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of requiring that all knowledge is verified by a group?
Ethics
Are there responsibilities that necessarily come with knowing something or knowing how to do something?
As knowers, do we have a moral duty to examine our own assumptions and biases?
Under what circumstances, if any, do we have a moral duty to share what we know?
In what ways do ethical judgments differ from other kinds of judgments?
Is there knowledge that a person or society has a responsibility to acquire or not to acquire?
If moral claims conflict, does it follow that all views are equally acceptable?
What personal traits (such as taking seriously the knowledge of others) do we need in order to be ethical knowers?