Tag: "epistemology"

Can The World Learn Wisdom?

Nicholas Maxwell points out where the Enlightenment went wrong.
[Issue 108: June/July 2015: Articles]

Allegory of the Living Room

Joe S. Kimbrough II wonders if our condition is better than that of Plato’s prisoners.
[Issue 108: June/July 2015: Fiction]

The Fourth Dialogue Between Hylas & Philonous

In 1713 George Berkeley wrote Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous on the nature of reality. Roger Jennings considers how it might have continued…
[Issue 105: November/December 2014: Articles]

Sceptical Hypotheses and Transcendental Arguments

Jonathan Barfield presents a way to beat the sceptics.
[Issue 104: September/October 2014: Articles]

Climate of Disbelief

Paul Biegler asks whether the way we form our beliefs means we’re hardwired to succumb to global warming.
[Issue 103: July/August 2014: Articles]

Knowledge by Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith

Nick Everitt is uncertain about a book on Knowledge.
[Issue 103: July/August 2014: Books]

Dream or Reality?

Edo Shonin and William Van Gordon dream of the not too distant future.
[Issue 103: July/August 2014: Fiction]

A Justification of Empirical Thinking

Arnold Zuboff tells us why we should believe our senses.
[Issue 102: May/June 2014: Articles]

Are There ‘Other’ Ways of Knowing?

Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci asks.
[Issue 102: May/June 2014: Science]

Out There

Jonathan Sheasby takes a look at reality from street level.
[Issue 102: May/June 2014: Short Story]

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