Concepts in epistemology

fact, Platonic dialogues express his insightful philosophical views and teachings on different doctrines and concepts. It is quite evident from Plato’s writings that he presented his arguments in a conversational structure, thus enabling him to examine each concept and doctrine from different angles or sides. As scholars, Plato’s arguments offer us the opportunity of evaluating each concept and idea in a systematic manner which in other words can be termed as reasoning. This part of the essay…

understand such dynamics, and as a potential foundation for conceiving of what our values in knowledge ought to be, rather than merely defining the what they already are. Haslanger shows how feminist philosophy can reveal the limitations of reigning concepts of knowledge, and suggests that there is space to reestablish sets of cognitive values in order to better “organize ourselves and our cognitive activities within 1 communities…

Propositional epistemology is field of study in philosophy that deals with theories of knowledge. Traditionally, epistemology consisted of the idea that if one was to have knowledge, one must have a justified true belief. This was held to be the case until Edmund Gettier wrote a paper titled “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” challenging the traditional account of knowledge. This was one of the first times that epistemic norms had been challenged. A more recent criticism of propositional…

and scope is well defined by the philosophical stance of “naturalized epistemology” in that knowledge comes from the empirical sciences though it’s application of theory, methods and results. Knowledge comes from proving things. This is different from the classical foundationalism which asserts the need to basic belief from which other beliefs can be built on. This essay will discuss the distinctiveness of naturalized epistemology, then how it differs from classical foundationalism and conclude…

four research paradigms, or epistemologies, transforming complex concepts into terms palatable to the novice scholar. When used together, the literature allowed me to develop a confident grasp of each epistemology and discover my appeal and bias towards them. The “Four Corners” class exercise, allowed me to relate my theoretical beliefs to varying epistemological themes. In doing so, I realized my beliefs were largely disbursed evenly between three of the four epistemologies, yet I have…

Epicurean Epistemology In this paper, I am going to explain and give my opinions on Epicurean epistemology. The main points that I will touch upon in this paper will be the Epicurean belief that all sense are one-hundred percent true and the three criteria of truth given by Epicurean epistemologist. Overall, I feel as though the Epicureans do a good job supporting their arguments, and I do think that what they are saying makes a lot of sense. After I explain the arguments given for their…

Knowledge in Absolutist Epistemology As well as showing through the principle of the many and the principle of incompleteness that there are valid ways of gaining knowledge apart from the dominant sciences, a key strength to the relativist argument is its ability to consider subjugated knowledges. According to the standard view of knowledge, different ways of knowing are part of a continuous and unitary epistemological tradition. However, instead of being equally considered knowledge is…

In what follows, we will commit ourselves to answering several questions that arise in the first reading of this excerpt. Is Moore’s reading of Copernican Revolution correct? Is Epistemology really a product of Kantian revolution? What are, if there are any, epistemological questions? We will also attempt to locate Moore’s argument — or rather arguments of similar kind — in the context of contemporary debate between Realists and anti-Realists. Our aim will be to show that what Moore speaks…

Rationalism and Empiricism are both separate theories of epistemology which is the attempt to understand the theory of knowledge. Though, the contrast between rationalism and empiricism are extreme. They both differentiate from each other and the key concepts of each other are largely contrasted. Empiricism, is the theory in which one learns through experience which is also known as ‘a posterior.’ Meanwhile, rationalism is when one uses logic and reason to come to a conclusion before the…

What does sense-certainty fail in achieving, and what does this failure mean for epistemology? 2000. December 9th. Sense-certainty is Hegel 's approach to proving that knowledge of the world is not a wholly passive process, he does this through a dialectic from, meaning that the argument moves as a conversation, with hegel presenting an answer to a question, in this case how one can know about the world through consciousness, and then works to show how the answer is wrong in itself, because…