This post argues that reality is not a constitutive object of science, but rather a regulatory idea of science ( Read more... )

This post prepares the way from Read My Desire to the next book, Imagine There's No WomanWhat are the ethics of epistemology? Perhaps this seems like an odd question, since it may seem that epistemology is a prior consideration to ethics - how else do we know it is possible to have ethical knowledge? But the primacy of practical reason over ( Read more... )

(As a regular lurker, and occasional commenter, I've noticed that the topic of Plato and/or Platonic philosophy comes up on occasion -- most recently in the form of a post by writingstudent. Given that, I thought it might be interesting to broaden the subject of discussion by posting an interpretation of a book written by a self-described, and recently-deceased ( Read more... )

Hey, im new to LJ and philosophy on LJ and i hope this is a suitable entry for this community.  Its just something i was thinking about wile doing some epistemology revision, so criticism is welcome to prevent me writing it down in an exam if its complete none sense.  Also i hope it makes sense, i have read over it but im not the best writer in the ( Read more... )

In Plato's Theaetetus, several definitions of knowledge are considered and rejected ( Read more... )

What are the presuppositions underlying the a priori/a posteriori distinction? Do you think there are any?

You do, don't you? You and your filthy non-classical logicsLet's suppose that you're not completely insane and want to avoid embracing contradiction, but you are at least a little bonkers and want to get rid of that pesky LEM. For those of you who don't know, the LEM is of the form ( Read more... )

Are all epistemological possibilities metaphysical possibilities?

Does Kripke's distinction between metaphysical and epistemological possibilities render an omnipotent being (God) impossible ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, it seems that we will have to wait a bit longer for a proper kumite. Interestingly, this isn't because tcpip seems likely to offer a public and unconditional concession, but instead that by responding "Oh my sweet lord no it certainly doesn't" to i_am_lane's claim that "science presupposes causation and a theory of truth" he didn't mean that ( Read more... )