Constructivist epistemology

The third chapter discusses three famous paradoxes to illustrate how the mind works the concepts introduced previously. The three paradoxes are: Berry paradox, Richard’s paradox, and the paradox of the Liar. All three paradoxes explore the limits of human languages and how that affects our understanding of mathematical concepts. The Berry paradox is particularly concerned with numbers and their descriptions; there are numbers that are cannot even be named for example. I liked how the author…

Reflection Journal: Grant Wiggins “Do you think he is superior to you?’ I asked him. ‘Of course,’ he said. ‘Don't you?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘Just stay here long enough,’ he said. ‘He'll make you the nigger you were born to be." (Page 65) Matthew Antoine’s conversations with Grant are the cause of Grant’s cynical attitude. Before leaving to college: their one chance since there is no freedom in the quarter is flight. When he returned, a retired teacher who claims he should have left told him that his…

Metaphysics and Epistemology deal with theories of reality and knowledge. Those two domains of philosophy exhibit a close relationship since our understanding of reality affects our perception of knowledge. Philosophy explores an unlimited array of ideas, including religion. In the field of religion, the nature and existence of a higher power (God) are explored as well as the immortality of the soul, miracles, and the comprehensibility of religious language as factual statements (Alexander, 2010…

Cozy mysteries and great detective mysteries both show us that people will believe what their eyes see, but to find the truth you need to learn that the physical can be deceiving. It is human nature for us to look at what is presented to us, and believe it. For example, in Agatha Christy’s “The Blue Geranium” and Jacquez Futrelle’s “The Problem of Cell 13” both show characters being misled by the clues left behind. “The Blue Geranium” shows us how clues can be placed to lead you away from…

Opinion on Descartes My view on Descartes Meditations are false, and I believe this because there is too many things that could go wrong in the Matrix theory. Descartes says, “I have convinced myself that there is nothing in the world-no sky, no Earth, no minds, no bodies.” I completely disagree with this because how can everything we believe in be false? I will go through how I believe Descartes is incorrect, and why I believe in this. Descartes is a philosopher who believes there is nothing in…

Whether we like it or not education has play a significant role in individual’s life. “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X, both articles talk about a man who got enlightened, while he was in prison. In Plato’s article “The Allegory of the Cave,” one of the former prisoners have the privilege to go out from the cave to experiment new things as actual objects and the light. At the beginning, would be hard to the prisoner to get use to the journey since he…

It can be quite overwhelming to read about various moral theories from multiple sources, which leaves people wondering what is worth accepting or disproving. James Rachels presented a rather convincing ethical theory that correlated with his own understanding of this topic. This was explained further in The Elements of Moral Philosophy's final chapter (13). Utilitarianism was reminiscent of this theory by James, as it perpetuates on the concept of a person's freedom to choose, as well as the…

Defined by a myriad of components that integrally meld into a complex of knowledge, human nature exists as an enigma with seemly unrelated pieces. While initially, some of these components may seem to be antithetical, the ambiguity found within each individual dictates that even the most polar factors are closely interwoven as with the case of emotion and reason. This interconnection, and how it functions to formulate knowledge, is an integral capacity that allows mankind to explore the…

THE CLASSIC ERA. In this the Socratic era, Socrates and his followers, set out to form great philosophies which turn out be the main platform of Western civilisation. The lesser Socratics, the Platonic Academy, the Aristotelian Lyceum, and the Hellenistic movements, start here and all later thought has to take account of these and a great part of it consists essentially of an elaboration or a commentary upon, or a criticism of, theses movements. The questioning method of Socrates was the…

Christopher McLaughlin Paper 1, Page 1 Rene Descartes was a French Philosopher in the 16th century. This essay is will focus on his works in Mediations of First Philosophy most notably the first and second meditations, were Descartes begins his journey in riding his life of deceptive beliefs, and finds a point to build on the foundation of knowledge. Descartes became disturbed with the amount of false beliefs he had over time developed. He set out to (through meditation), to dissolve all…