The Philosophical Blind Squirrel

Monday, December 20, 2010

Mill's Methods (of knowing cause-effect relationships) and Hume's Problem of Induction

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Causality is the relationship between a cause and effect, or one event that is a consequence of the first. However many philosophers theoriz...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Fallibilism and Skepticism

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Fallibilism is the theory that all claims of knowledge could be mistaken. Extreme fallibilists even argue that absolute certainty about know...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Reliability Theory of Knowledge and the KK-Principal

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According to the Reliability Theory of Knowledge, knowing a proposition does not imply that you know that you know it. In contrast the KK-pr...
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Monday, December 6, 2010

Empiricism and Rationalism

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What is the source of knowledge? Where do basic beliefs come from? Empiricism maintains that basic beliefs are the products of experience th...
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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Human Irrationality

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The Naturalistic View does not makes any claims on the conditions for knowledge, instead it deals with the proper role of science in epistem...
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Serious Relativism

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The theory of absolutism says there is only one correct system for forming beliefs for all people. Serious Relativism stands in contrast to ...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Uncontroversial Forms of Relativism

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I am taking a break from Non-Evidentialism to discuss Relativism beginning with it in its most uncontroversial form, knowledge is something ...
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