Epistemology

“A feminist critique of a masculinist bias in epistemology is necessary precisely because women constitute the most relevant oppressed group.”(Cattier) The use of the epistemological model prompts the success of the masculine group, which is why women’s critiques of this model are seen as attack to masculinity. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy, which focus on the understand or study of human knowledge. Historical, epistemology was used to support the idea that males, especially white males…

Belenky et al. challenged traditional androcentric knowledge theories (e.g. Perry, 1970). From their life experiences women develop ways they view the world, or epistemologies. These “women’s ways of knowing” have been historically neglected by “the dominant intellectual ethos of our time” (Belenky et al., 1997, p. xxv). The five epistemologies, or ways of knowing, women have nurtured and…

A person that appears to be smart or intelligent is said to possess knowledge. But what exactly is knowledge? Epistemology, also known as the theory of knowledge is by definition the science of cognition. The definition of cognition is the act or process of knowing; perception. The author Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, dissects cognition into two parts being cognitive acts and cognitive results. The author then goes further in depth and defines cognitive acts as certain mental activities such as…

Question 1 In the story, The Allegory of the Cave, Plato uses the three prisoners to distinguish between genuine knowledge and right opinion. He uses psychological, epistemological, and metaphysical thoughts to prove it. In The Cave, there are three prisoners tied up and they can only look at the wall in front of them. In that cave, there is a light source behind them producing shadows that appear on that wall. The three play a game; the goal was to guess which shadow will appear next…

proposed their system in 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…

undergone prior testing. Thus, he says statements should be framed to indicate what is required to test their claims, and all untested claims are to be regarded as hypothetical and conditional to the investigation. Therefore, Dewey’s pragmatic epistemology is primarily concerned with the future, and propositions are a catalyst to produce further inquiry and action. “It is a sign of the progress of events toward their termination, their fulfillment, their consequences.” (Haack…

Have you ever thought about the history of psychology and how people first began to explain why we think and act the way we do? The Greeks first began deep thinking through reading and writing.The Philosophies that were created by theses Ancient Greeks began the discovery of how we interpret life. The Philosophers behind those ideas were very important to the history of Psychology because many of them helped influence some of the most famous Philosophers that we learn about today. How did The…

metaphysics with a new epistemology contrary to the scholastic, Aristotelian worldview. He seeks new foundations that knowledge can be built upon and tries to accomplish this by identifying basic, indubitable axioms to derive more complex truths by. As Descartes had a background in mathematics and geometry, these tenets are proposed alike mathematical truths in that they are self-evidential. He calls these axioms ,”clear and distinct perceptions”. For the Cartesian epistemology and metaphysics…

Out of the three main different schools of thought surrounding epistemology and how humans gain knowledge, Kant’s theory of transcendental idealism is the most reasonable. While both Hume and Descartes present good points, they take their ideas too much to the extreme. Hume’s extreme empiricism drives him into skepticism so harsh that it led to the conclusion that events do not really have a cause, since cause cannot be directly observed. This claim is problematic at numerous levels, mainly…

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”.…