Chapter 5 : Epistemology |
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What is truth? Philosophy has yet to arrive at answers to these questions that have been universally accepted and gone without a challenge through time. Philosophers keeping working at it and have come to realize a good deal about what appear to be simple matters to most people who do not stop to ponder the issues that arise when one would reflect on the assumptions being made in the simple positions being taken in an uncritical manner. One thing that now appears to be fairly certain is that the post modern ideas supporting relativism on these topics are proving insufficient to the needs of the human community and so the critical thinking and philosophical reflection on these matters will continue. And lest it be dismissed or forgotten there is a case to be made that truth does really matter see WHY TRUTH MATTERS Suggested: On Knowledge: WIKIPEDIA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA of PHILOSOPHY: http://www.iep.utm.edu/knowledg/ STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA of PHILOSOPHY: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/ On Truth On Truth VIEW: lecture by Dr. Peter Millican at the University of Oxford. 60 minutes Introduction to Knowledge 10:31The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge 16:30Gettier and Other Complications 14:48Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief 12:32 |
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