Epistemology

concluded after having read and watched these two pieces. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which is a key part of his book The Republic, takes you into the journey of different stages of knowledge, which work together with the metaphysical world and epistemology. By Plato incorporating metaphors such as, fire, shadows, chains, prisoners, the cave, and real objects the connection with The Truman Show was made evident. In The Truman Show where you have similar key concepts of what is reality and what…

early modern philosophers. Both were in search for the answer to the same question in metaphysics and epistemology, what is knowledge? However, in search for the answer to this question, both philosophers differ in terms of their answers. They’re answers contradicted, and they critiqued one another on their own propositions. The rivalry between rationalism and empiricism emerged within epistemology. In what follows, I will be comparing Descartes’s rationalistic views and Locke’s empiricist views…

Bonjour considers two responses to his argument, externalism and givenism. I would be talking about Bonjours views and arguments on externalism and giving his thoughts and view on the topic. I would also be concerning his counter argument and explaining his views on it and why he disagrees with it. I also would be going over his foundationalist view and some of his thoughts on it. I also would be going over his regress argument. Bonjour thinks that there are two different responses for his…

When we fall asleep and we dream how do we distinguish if what we are seeing or imagining is real or not? How do we even know if we are imagining what we are seeing, or if what we are seeing is actuality? Based on The Matrix, humans are always in a dream-like state. The film depicts humans attached to a huge artificial intelligence system called the Matrix run by evil machines. This system controls the human mind and conveys it with virtual reality depicting life. In the film, after Morpheus…

The Skeptic Belief The search for the indubitable truth is the main aim of Descartes meditations. In order to do this, Descartes subjects everything to doubt in order to uncover what is immune to it. Therefore, his skeptical argument is said to be stronger than his positive argument in which beliefs are justified. Thus, the justifiability of beliefs and perceptions as put forward by Descartes lead people to be forced into skepticism. From Descartes first argument we look at those things that can…

The problem of Criterion is a problem posed by Roderick Chisholm and is a foundation problem of epistemology. The problem of Criterion is indeed a problem for the very beginning of knowledge. It’s the beginning of our process of trying to find knowledge. Chisholm claims that we can either answer the question “what do we know?” or “what are the criteria of knowledge?” but we are unable to answer both of them. Basically, if we answer the question “what do we know?” first, then we are going to be…

Apologetic Method There are five Apologetic methods, Classical, Evidential, Cumulative Case, Presuppositional methods, and the Reformed Epistemology Approach. [5] Although the apologetic method is a spawn of the word apologia, meaning defense. [1] Each method defines both its own relationship and worldview between faith and reason. Therefore, Apologetics is not restricted or reserved to defend a single worldview, faith, reason, and concept or theorem. [1] For instance, the most plausible…

The No Defeaters Theory of epistemology seeks to solve the Gettier Problem in epistemic justification and be a solid means of epistemically justifying an individual's beliefs. The Gettier Problem is a commonly discussed challenge to the traditional way of defining knowledge. The traditional way is when a person has a belief that turns out to be accurate and true, while he is also justified for having that belief. For example, Peter claims that the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals. Peter is…

which includes and genuinely offers being to the world lies past physical experience, which is exhibited by isolating it from the unmistakable, discernment based experience, with his 'line'. Obviously, this is the place it is hard to keep his epistemology and power straight. Epistemologically speaking, Plato accepts to know something is, in actuality, a memory of inherent learning somebody as of now has. The Divided Line demonstrates that to achieve the following intellectual condition of the…

through mathematical models. As stated above, one of the central aims of my attempt to incorporate neurobiology into the discussion of justification is to develop what Goldman claims is the central focus of externalism, and, more broadly, analytic epistemology: methods of assessing and refining our understanding…