The venn diagram below illustrates how the definitions of knowledge debate works – we’re trying to provide the necessary and…
The veil of perception is the idea that we do not perceive the external world directly. Instead, we are only…
Global scepticism is such a classic of epistemology that it’s made its way into popular culture with films like The…
In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume applies his empiricist philosophy to a fundamental concept in metaphysics and science:…
René Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) begins from a position of radical doubt – questioning everything that can possibly…
David Hume is one of the most famous defenders of empiricism – the view that all knowledge ultimately comes from…
“Cogito ergo sum” or “I think therefore I am” is probably the most famous argument in all of philosophy. But…
Note: I am making a few assumptions here, such as a correspondence theory of truth and that belief is a…
The definition of knowledge is a big topic in epistemology and philosophy. The classic definition – which goes back to…