The Epistemology of Synthetic Reality
Truth, Belief and Justification in the Age of Deepfakes
Examine how generative AI, synthetic media and hyper-real simulation challenge classical epistemological frameworks of empirical knowledge, testing what it means to know something when direct sensory perception can no longer be trusted
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Course Modules
Module 1: Classical Foundations of Knowledge
3 lessons
What philosophers have meant by knowledge, and why the senses were trusted as its foundation.
Module 2: The Synthetic Turn
3 lessons
How synthetic media and simulation unsettle the link between seeing and knowing.
Module 3: Testimony and Trust
3 lessons
Most of what we know comes from others; what happens to that knowledge when sources can be fabricated.
Module 4: Knowing Anew
3 lessons
How justification might be rebuilt when perception alone is no longer enough.