Epistemology | The Philosopher

12 min read

"Pseudoscience after Feyerabend": Chiara Ambrosio and Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Epistemology; Objectivity; Science; Authority; Astrology)

"The criteria we use to discuss science and pseudoscience are incredibly context dependent."

Amy Kind

8 min read

The New Basics

"Imagination": An essay by Amy Kind (Keywords: Epistemology; History of Philosophy; Reason; Perception; Thought Experiments)

"Just as perception is not the enemy of reason despite its fallibility, neither is imagination."

Ian James Kidd

13 min read

Essays

"Character, Vices, and Authority" by Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Epistemology; Ethics; Virtue; Truth)

"Epistemic vices are fundamentally failures of our inner life, failures to relate or respond to epistemic values and ideals."

Linda Martín Alcoff

16 min read

Conversations

"A Particularly Wonderful Human Being": Linda Martín Alcoff on Charles W. Mills

"We had a really egalitarian relationship, and I have not found that to be the case too often with male academics."

Eva Meijer

17 min read

Essays

"Deep Listening and Democracy: Political Listening to Fellow Citizens and Other Beings": Eva Meijer

"Who can speak is a fundamental political question – both in the meaning of who is allowed to speak, and who is seen as a speaking being."

Francey Russell

10 min read

The New Basics

"Opacity": An Essay by Francey Russell (Keywords: Self-Knowledge; Moral Psychology; Literature)

"Self-knowledge emerges as an exercise of human agency, to be understood as the way in which one takes responsibility for one’s own mind."

Carl Mika

12 min read

Essays

"Where Do We Stand When We Know? Mātauranga Māori and its Translation as 'Science'" by Carl Mika

"Methods of thinking and observing are tightly implicated with wellbeing – not just for the human entity but also the non-human world."

Charles W. Mills

8 min read

Conversations

Ignorance, Innocent and Otherwise: A Conversation with Charles W. Mills (Keywords: Race; Knowledge)

"We don’t know not because we can’t know but because we don’t want to know."

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