Category: Epistemology

There are some factors of the human body that play different important roles in acquiring knowledge, understanding and analyzing this knowledge. Ways of Knowing include emotion, language, perception and reason. These ways of knowing offer a media for interpretation understanding and communication of information. The knowledge phrase that we derive from this is “The Strengths…

Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy presents to us the supposition that a God must exist, as derived from the pre-existing notion of an infinite being that is presumably embedded in the human mind. Despite his initial exhibition of Cartesian skepticism, Descartes finds that there must be three ideas of existence that can be assumable by…

Doubt is one of the underlying themes of Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy. In the Meditations, Descartes discusses what can be called into doubt and provides reasoning for the false things he believes to have thought in his lifetime. Descartes’ first meditation deals with general skepticism, the theory that certain knowledge is impossible, and discusses…

In the realm of belief systems and philosophical thought, atheism and agnosticism stand out as two distinct perspectives regarding the existence of deities or the divine. While often lumped together under the broader category of non-theism, they represent nuanced positions that merit careful consideration. Atheism, in its essence, asserts the absence of belief in any…

Contents 1 Overview of the movie 2 Hobbes view 3 Plato’s view 4 Materialist view Overview of the movie Isaac Asimov (scientist, anthropologist, and philosopher) writer of Bicentennial Man thought of this Robotic subject further beyond the mere joy of amazing possibilities of computer technology. In this movie, an android severing at Mr. Martin searches…

One of the issues that trigger a dispute in the contemporary world is the record of the times of creation. Christians and agnostics disparage the idea of “God making the world in six 24-hour days” (Harrison, 2002, p. 14). For quite a long time, Christian savvy people have taken a stab at thinking of an…

René Descartes, a towering figure of the 17th century, wielded his intellect like a beacon, illuminating the murky waters of philosophy, mathematics, and science. His legacy, a tapestry woven with threads of skepticism, dualism, and mathematical precision, continues to shape our understanding of the world. Let us embark on a journey through Descartes’ remarkable accomplishments,…

Epistemology is the study nature of itself. It focuses on means of human knowledge acquisition and how to differentiate the truth knowledge claims from the false one. The modern epistemology deals with the debate between and empiricism. In rationalism way of thinking, knowledge is acquired using reasons or reasoning. In empiricism, knowledge is gained through…

About Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, we are faced with an epistemological problem. Epistemology is defined as the theory of knowledge. It is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. Descartes begins his first meditation on the search for absolute certainty of his existence. In doing so, he abandons the truths he had…

Epistemology is said to be the study of knowledge and the composition of knowledge. In relation, feminist epistemology questions how gender and identity influence knowledge as well as how it may vary based on our social assumptions and stereotypes made about gender roles. Many argue that gender does, in fact, influence knowledge as these assumptions…