Tag: "epistemology"

Understanding Ignorance by Daniel R. DeNicola

Paul McGavin finds help in understanding ignorance in Understanding Ignorance.
[Issue 133 :: August/September 2019 :: Books]

First Believe, Then Understand

Peter Adamson reviews the relation of reason & revelation.
[Issue 133 :: August/September 2019 :: Philosophy Then]

Truth and the True

Joseph Sen on types of knowledge in Western and Indian thought.
[Issue 132 :: June/July 2019 :: West Meets East]

What is it Like to be a Dragonfly?

Benedict O’Connell explores puzzles of perception with Locke, Kant and Nagel.
[Issue 131 :: April/May 2019 :: Articles]

Locke’s Question to Berkeley

Alessandro Colarossi imagines a perceptive conversation about reality.
[Issue 131 :: April/May 2019 :: Articles]

Logos by Raymond Tallis

We seek purpose and enlightenment as Stephen Anderson attempts to understand Raymond Tallis’s attempt to understand our understanding of the world.
[Issue 131 :: April/May 2019 :: Books]

Is The World An Illusion?

Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the many entrants not included.
[Issue 129 :: December 2018 / January 2019 :: Question of the Month]

Simon & Finn

by Melissa Felder
[Issue 129 :: December 2018 / January 2019 :: Cartoon]

Foucault’s Elephant

Thomas Morrison looks hard at Michel Foucault’s problem with science.
[Issue 127 :: August/September 2018 :: Continental Thoughts]

Rashomon

Matt Qvortrup contemplates the fleeting nature of truth through Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece.
[Issue 127 :: August/September 2018 :: Films]