Epistemology

2012). The movie explores the ability to differentiate dreams from reality (Malcolm, 2010) and therefore looks at two branches of philosophy - metaphysics, and epistemology. The viewer is left with the following question after seeing the movie - “What is reality and how do we know?” It is an exploration of real world vs. the dream…

Plato’s The Republic: “The Allegory of the Cave” and Descartes’ “Meditation I of the Things of Which We May Doubt” have both played a vital role in the discussion of epistemology. These writings have even influenced Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, Hollywood movie directors of the 1999 hit film “The Matrix”. Within Plato’s The Republic: “The Allegory of the Cave”, Descartes’ “Meditation I of the Things of Which We May Doubt” and Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix there are…

source of understanding enables us to distinguish between the different types of propositional knowledge. Epistemology is the way things are known, when ontology is the way things are. Ontology is the natural way of things, how life actually runs its course. Epistemology, comprised of many different types of knowledge. A master list does not exist, however, the primary concern of epistemology is propositional knowledge. It incorporates a number of matters, to name a few: geographical knowledge,…

the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Holy Bible).” All truths come from these principles and define my personal epistemology. I strive to challenge myself to compare of all personal goals, thoughts and actions, to the consistent with what is stated above. As an educator, it is an obligation to model a lifestyle that reflects these principles. Personal axiology…

Feminist Epistemology: The Form that will Break the Matrix of Domination Knowledge is the source for meaningful change and is paramount in liberating oppressed groups. I will use Patricia Collins’ theory that knowledge produces change that will not fall into the matrix of domination and illustrations from her writing to support this idea (251). The current validation process of knowledge is oppressive: Eurocentric epistemology. Collins highlights it’s oppressive effects on Black women in…

Genetic Epistemology is the study of the origins of knowledge according to Piaget. Explanation Jean Piaget (1936) was the first psychologist to study cognitive development. In the Genetic Epistemology theory, Piaget explains how humans develop cognitively from birth throughout life. He broke this down into four stages: Sensorimotor stage, Preoperational stage, Concrete Operational stage, and the Formal Operational stage. Sensorimotor Stage- this stage is from birth through age 2. There are 6…

systems of society (“Queer Histories”). Leo Bersani and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick are two queer Authors who have impacted the public and academic structures of knowledge during this crisis. Examining Bersani’s “Is the Rectum a Grave?” and Sedgwick’s “Epistemology of the Closet,” both are positioned towards different audiences and found to converge and diverge from each other in the historically contingent need for justification of homosexual identity during the AIDS crisis, to the queering of social…

The Pre-Socratics Epistemology One can only begin to fathom the way of life in ancient Greece. The culture was well preserved, but that was it. Their way of thinking can only be speculated by our current vorhaben based translations of their documented, and their way of life is only a fragment of our fantasy of what we hoped they did and believed. I myself can only resort to imagination as I dream of what life was like in an ancient Greece city. As I read the texts of Aristotle Selected Works,…

Another area of debate between John Calvin, Aristotle and Plato is on Epistemology, the study of knowledge. It comes as no surprise that John Calvin’s epistemology is based upon the knowledge of God. Calvin did not use the methods that most philosophers use to speculate on God; Calvin focused his epistemology views from the revelation that God provides in his scripture. Calvin rejects anything outside of the revelation of God through scripture stating, “not to indulge in curiosity, or to…

Traditionally, epistemology has been defined as the theory of knowledge in which the primary goal has been to obtain truth while avoiding false beliefs . Knowledge was defined and universally accepted to be “Justified True Belief”. However, this was challenged when Edmund Gettier released a 1963 paper which demonstrated that justified true beliefs are intuitively not sufficient for knowledge due to epistemic luck. This sudden revelation triggered “a cottage industry of knowledge-analysers” ,…