Epistemology
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Descartes and Plato – Perception and the Senses
By: Michielle Beck
Like Bertrand Russell, Plato and Rene Descartes believed that people's perceptions of the world were flawed, because one cannot rely upon the senses. more...
Epistemology – The Nature of True Knowledge
By: Michielle Beck
What does it really mean to know something? Knowledge comes from books and the world, but what's really true and what is only perception can vary from person to person. more...
By: Jeremy Salow
Skeptics see evidence and plausibility as the best way to assure that ideas are reality-based, allowing one to come as close as possible to objective truth. more...
Berkeley's Conceivability Argument
By: Peter Burnham
Berkeley's Conceivability Argument is very important because, by accepting it, you essentially agree that there is no external objective reality that we can conceive of. more...
Berkeley's Argument from Relativity
By: Peter Burnham
Berkeley's Relativity Argument successfully shows that Locke's primary/secondary quality distinction was flawed. It does not, however, deal Locke's theory a fatal blow. more...
Locke's Primary & Secondary Quality Distinction
By: Peter Burnham
Locke theorised a distinction between the primary and secondary properties of objects which, with some adapting, can still survive its criticisms today. more...
On How to Justify One's Beliefs
By: Dorothea Lotter
One of the central debates in 20th Century epistemology concerns the concept of justification. This article gives a brief overview over some major theories in the field. more...
By: Dorothea Lotter
This article discusses Socrates's idea of wisdom in the light of recent findings in empirical psychology. more...
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