Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Ancient Skepticism Used in its most specific sense, the expression ancient skepticism refers to two movements in ancient philosophy. One is Pyrrhonism, which claims Pyrrho of Elis (4th-3rd c. B.C.) as its founder but was especially prominent during and after ...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Qualia Feelings and experiences vary widely. For example, I run my fingers over sandpaper, smell a skunk, feel a sharp pain in my finger, seem to see bright purple, become extremely angry. In each of these cases, I am the subject of a mental state with a very ...

The Paideia Project: Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Archive of contributed papers in the subject area of Theory of Knowledge.

The Epistemology Page . Keith DeRose My goal is to pull together some resources in epistemology. I have very limited time for maintaining this page, so it is bound to be very incomplete. Hopefully, though, there will be enough material here for the page to be somewhat useful to those interested in epistemology. . Upcoming Epistemology Events: - Contextualism in Epistemology and Beyond, a ...

Analysis of the purpose of Language throws some light on the concepts of Meaning and Truth ...

Article by F. Heylighen from the Principia Cybernetica Web

The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell Home University Library, 1912 Oxford University Press paperback, 1959 Reprinted, 1971-2 Edited in hypertext by Andrew Chrucky, 1998. CONTENTS PREFACE APPEARANCE AND REALITY THE EXISTENCE OR MATTER THE NATURE OF MATTER IDEALISM KNOWLEDGE BY ACQUAINTANCE AND KNOWLEDGE BY DESCRIPTION ON INDUCTION ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES HOW A PRIORI ...

Epistemology None of the gods love wisdom or desire to become wise, for they are wise already -- nor if someone else is wise, do they love wisdom. Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

Episteme Links a comprehensive resource for philosophy on the Internet: thousands of categorized links, a bookstore, and more!

The Epistemology Research Guide My aim here has been to provide a convenient list of resources for those working in contemporary analytic epistemology. I have focused primarily on gathering links to professional papers available online. For links to search engines, philosophy links and other resources, see my Philosophy Links. Please send comments, suggestions, or recommended links to Dr. Keith ...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Foundationalist Theories of Epistemic Justification Foundationalism is a view about the structure of justification or knowledge. The foundationalist's thesis in short is that all knowledge and justified belief rest ultimately on a foundation of noninferential ...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Virtue Epistemology An approach in epistemology that applies the resources of virtue theory to problems in the theory of knowledge. It is argued that by doing so it is possible to give informative accounts of knowledge, evidence, and other important epistemic ...

Philosophy - Epistemology - Effectuationism by Peter Kinane: Perception, Concepts, Nature, Truth - coherent, true-to-life, democracy friendly system

KNOWLEDGE, JUSTIFICATION, AND TRUTH: A SELLARSIAN APPROACH TO EPISTEMOLOGY Laurence Alan BonJour A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY RECOMMENDED FOR ACCEPTANCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY June, 1969 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: KNOWLEDGE AND THE GIVEN 1. The Problem of Knowledge. 2.

Guest exhibition entitled, Mind and Body: Ren Descartes to William James, by Robert H. Wozniak

Select ----- HOME 1992 Contents 1993 Contents 1994 Contents 1995 Contents 1996 Contents 1997 Contents 1998 Contents 1999 Contents Author Index PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1995 Education and Social Epistemology Alvin I. Goldman University of Arizona TRUTH, TEACHING, AND EXPERTISE At a recent conference I was described as a defender of epistemological family values. This took me a bit by surprise, ...

Coherence, Certainty, and Epistemic Priority* Roderick Firth Harvard University The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXVI, No. 19 (October, 1964): pp. 545-557. Near the end of' his annual lectures on epistemology at Harvard, Lewis used to tell his students that they must ultimately choose between the theory of justification that he had been defending or something very similar to it -- and a coherence ...

Is Justified True Belief Knowledge Edmund L. Gettier From Analysis 23 ( 1963): 121-123. Transcribed into hypertext by Andrew Chrucky, Sept. 13, 1997. Various attempts have been made in recent years to state necessary and sufficient conditions for someone's knowing a given proposition. The attempts have often been such that they can be stated in a form similar to the following:1 a. S knows that ...

Epistemology course_number: PHIL441 department: Philosophy instructor: Keith DeRose course_ID: 20526 limited_enrollment: yes course_meeting_times: T 1.30-3.20 class_location: C 305 aka: phil441b/phil641b course_description: below Phil. 441/641, Epistemology Spring, 1999 Tuesdays, 1:30 - 3:20, Connecticut Hall, room 305 Prof. K. DeRose CT Hall, room 410 office phone: 432-1674 dept. phone: ...

Paper by J. McCarthy, M. Sato, T. Hayashi, and S. Igarashi

Paper by Bas C. van Fraassen; includes a bibliography