Epistemology

Descartes, the famous French philosopher and brilliant 17th century Scholar is credited worldwide as the founder of modern western philosophy for his works in the fields of Ontology – a branch of metaphysics regarding the ‘nature of being’- and Epistemology – the study of knowledge. What set him apart from the ancient philosophers was his avoidance of the scholastic traditions to write only in Latin (the language that only highly educated people were trained in) and instead wrote in French so…

with him, Tuttle uses a great deal of rhetoric in his writing. With this understanding,one can assume that the epistemology of this text is post modernistic. According to Quatz the postmodern epistemology believes that knowledge is what we are able to convince others of. Knowledge cannot be obtained, we can only convince other of our claims. The text is a Postmodernistic type of epistemology because the author uses rhetoric to…

other experiences. Hume’s argument cannot be significant because it lacks any reason to understand how to get true knowledge from induction. As well as, it does not allow for any analytical and mathematical truths that exist in the world. Kant’s Epistemology is the union of the Rationalist and Empiricist views of knowledge. Kant believes that knowledge is a cooperative endeavor; mind relations are interactions and world relations are objects that we organize. Thus, Kant believes that our…

Introduction In this assignment research will be done about Plato. After reading this assignment, it will be clear what philosophy and academic thinking are, where and when Plato lived, what his ideas where and how people reacted and perhaps still react. Furthermore, a reflection on his ideas will be given as well as my view on his beliefs. Philosophy The definition of philosophy is already contained in the word philosophy itself. In Greek, philo means love or devotion and sophia means wisdom.…

The latter explains that our knowledge is wrong and that we cannot rely upon only the senses. The dream argument suggests the possibility that dreaming about the universe proves that senses are not always reliable. Three-dream case challenges the epistemology of Aristotle. While the evil demon debate goes away, the analogy of a painter who gets vision concludes that arithmetic is pure cerebral research, and more particular compared to astronomy and science. They are a fundamental step from the…

ideas of skepticism given by Rene´ Descartes and Al-ghazali will be examined in the light of philosophical views. It will be examined that how the ideas of both philosophers were similar and ran parallel to each other in order to establish the epistemology of truth. It will be argued that the thoughts and solution presented by both was different in terms of religious theology as the thoughts of Descartes revolved around the idea of secularism and natural science while that of Ghazali remained in…

Realism is another epistemology position which relates to scientific enquiry. The realism is that what the senses show us as reality is the truth: the objects have an existence independent of the human mind. Realism begins from the position that the picture that science paints of the world is a true and accurate one (Chia and Holt 2006)There are two type of realism one is direct realism another is critical realism. Direct realism says that what you see is what you get: what we experience through…

In the beginning of our book we learned about what philosophy means, the ultimate aim of philosophy, and we learned about critical thinking. Philosophy is “the love or pursuit of wisdom” (p5). After learning a good way to describe philosophy, we met a female philosopher named Perictione. She believed humanity exists in order to contemplate the principle of the nature of the whole (p5). Moving on to the ultimate aim of philosophy, we learn some of the goals of philosophy. A couple of these goals…

The journey to a philosophical way of thought In class, one of the assignments was to watch a video called Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave. While watching the video, a voice spoke as the story unfolded describing animated prisoners chained from their necks and bodies to a rail where they could only watch a wall in front of them to never be able to see what was around. On that wall their shadows were displayed. Over time, the fire from a distance would continue and someone would begin to maneuver…

In the late fifth century B.C, the Greek philosopher Plato defined knowledge as “justified, true belief”. This proclamation assumes knowledge must be justified through ways of knowing in order to be classified as knowledge . So if for example a piece of information is perceived through sense perception such as the equation 1+1=2, it must then pass through a process of rational analysis before it can be classified as knowledge ( one may justify this by taking one unit of a facet and adding…