“If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“It is the mythical, the romantic seduction of the pseudoknowledge, i.e. the folkore - both popular and scientific - that propagates quickly… — Manuel Toharia-Cortés Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e.… — Manuel Toharia-Cortés Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent of the existential status of the objects… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
“After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion” — Patricia Crone Copy Share Image
“Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Our individual consciousnesses were sieves of the divine. We could only know what our minds could encompass safely.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image