Concepts in epistemology

One City/ One Book project has been very popular in cities all around the United States because it really brings reading alive and gets everyone involved. The concept of a project like this is to really bring everyone together and help show other sides of cultures and ways of life. The project has done more good than bad because most cities have adopted it as a tradition. But, that wasn’t the case in New York because in an online article on the New York Times website it told how the city…

A Critique: Quantitative Research Study In their article, The relationship between nurses' perceptions of empowerment and patient satisfaction, Donahue, Piazza, Griffin, Dykes, and Fitzpatrick (2008) utilize a descriptive correlational design to describe nurses’ perceptions of empowerment and patient satisfaction and to identify and examine relationships among these variables (Grove, Gray, and Burns, 2015). In their introduction to the article, the authors cite the need for nurse executives to…

Have you ever just sat down in a middle of a warm summer night and look up at the glimmer star and wonder what’s actually up there? Well in the movie Contact the main charter, Dr. Ellis Arroway, believes there is something actually up there. In her case she was right, there was intelligent life and they were sending radio waves from the Vega star system. They somehow communicate plans for spaces travel and Ellis got to meet them. But, the main difference between Ellis Arroway and you or I is she…

pot”. The whole idea of the melting pot is easier than it sounds; it’s all of the amazing and especially diverse people, communities and cultures we have, all together and unified. This whole concept, the melting pot, this is the unified America that we’ve strived for-- the United States. Another wonderful concept is the, “mosaic”. Time and time again, America is described as a mosaic, (Lewis, 2016). This is all of the wonderful colors and shapes that we as Americans and immigrants form…

focused on he himself, but the story constructing itself around the inherent conflict between these two characters. In this way, it is important to remember that our stories should place upon emphasis to the core concepts we are trying to convey, whether that be a larger examination of a concept through a single character, or examining the relationship between two, as they conflict and contrast off the other, and as a result, have us learn more and more about…

Participating in this class, as well as several dialogues this semester has opened up my eyes to the way I handle myself in conflict situations. By studying different management styles and other conflict philosophies and applying them I have been able to see what I could improve within myself to help have more meaningful conflict that moves a relationship in a positive direction, versus having conflict just for the sake of conflict. From this I have developed three strategies that I would like…

mind, is the study of epistemology. Each of the philosophers studied this term have varying approaches of the study of knowledge. Tyler Burge is no different in this circumstance. In Reason and the First Person, Burge does not clearly state what his idea of knowledge is, nor does he provide much of his opinions on the importance of knowledge. A large part of Burge’s ideas of epistemology are shaped by the philosophy of the mind, and the idea that knowledge develops concepts of knowledge of the…

hope that they created a system that would last or would solve the question of the basis for existence for good. Similar attempts to establish a stable theory occured in epistemology. For instance, the main goal of Descartes’ radical scepticism was to find a foundation for epistemology…

Epistemology is the philosophical genre that seeks to establish a ubiquitous concept of knowledge. Within epistemology, the task of defining knowledge arouses controversial queries: what constitutes knowledge, how does one separate belief from knowledge and how does one justify what one knows? An epistemological issue of knowledge is presented by French philosopher, René Descartes. According to Descartes, “it is impossible for us to know whether we are in a waking state or a dreaming state”.…

There is a clear distinction between rationalism and empiricism–two theories of epistemology, which focuses on the theory knowledge through a philosophical lens. Rationalism centers around the ability to use knowledge with reasoning and that knowledge comes from innate ideas. Others believe that our senses could actually lead to true knowledge, as opposed to relying on innate ideas and reasoning. Many criticize rationalism and whether innate knowledge exists or is even pertinent. In this paper,…