Epistemology "Philosophy asks the simple question. What is it all about?"-Alfred North Whitehead. The Greek meaning of philosophy is the love of wisdom. Epistemology includes three basic beliefs: empiricism, rationalism, and Kant's synthesis. These three concepts bring together ...

"But is sensory experience fixed and neutral? Are theories simply man-made interpretations of given data? The epistemological viewpoint that has most often guided Western philosophy for three centuries dictates an immediate and unequivocal Yes! Yet this viewpoint no longer functions effectively, and...

As I read "The Village Watchman," I began to think about human development and human learning. It was interesting to me because the character in the story who we would consider "slower," Alan, was the character that did most of the teaching. Even though his human development w...

What does it mean to know something is true? - Why is it necessary to differentiate between what you know and do or can not know? - When do you doubt what you thought you sincerely knew? This critical essay of epistemology focuses on skepticism, and why philosophers such as John Hospers challenge a...

TREATMENT OF MIRACLES – DAVID HUME AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING Miracles are upheld by subjective sense perceptions of past experiences. They are described from the standpoint of an individual's own reality, and perhaps influenced by religious beliefs. In the strict sense...

KARL POPPER vs. THOMAS KUHN Science can be defined as knowledge and theory on the nature and operation the universe and all things in it, in which facts are organized into a systematic and meaningful pattern developed as a result of experiments, observations, tests and many other methods it uses....

The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey WrightIntroductionIn the recent bestseller, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel C. Dennett argues that the truly "dangerous" aspect of the Darwinian revolution was not the notion that species evolve: Lamarck, Owen, and Darwin's grandfather Era...