Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory of Knowledge

The classical Protagorean idea that the idea of absolute truth is an illusion — that there is only 'your truth' and 'my truth', or perhaps 'our tru...

Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be...

Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous. Not only are rigorous inferences to the best explanation used pervasively in the sciences, this kind of reason...

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In China, the debate over the moral status of emotions began around the 4th century BCE, when early philosophers first began to invoke psychologica...

For most of the twentieth century, philosophers have explored the nature and extent of our knowledge-especially our knowledge of the world grounded...

What does it mean to understand something? What is the essence of understanding, when compared across multiple domains? Varieties of Understanding ...

The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce...

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious...

What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire...

What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? In Knowing and Seeing, Michael Ayers recovers the insight in the traditional distinction between...

In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the acquisition, retention, and use of other relevan...

Crispin Wright is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries....