Essays on Epistemology

Epistemology involves the study of the criteria by which individuals knows or does not know what constitutes or warrants scientific knowledge. Epistemology is the basis on what scholars imagine could be the contents of knowledge and its shape in the real world. Additionally, epistemology can...

Hume argues in his Enquiry that necessity and liberty are compatible, and that the dispute between the two is only due to improper definitions of the terms (Hume 92). The question that he poses in his paper is whether we are responsible for our actions...

Epistemology is the study nature of human knowledge 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 rationalism and empiricism. In rationalism way of thinking,...

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...

Epistemology is used to describe a theory of knowledge that justifies what belief is from opinion. There are many debates on what epistemology actually is but the easiest way to look at it, is looking at John Locke and Rene Descartes. These two men have...

Introduction  Earth has music for those who listen, and charm and the melody of the earth depends upon the contemporary times’ development. Invention of the computer has been revamping the world in a very new way and where artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing revolution for...

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...

Numerous researchers in the field have tried to understand how children, adolescents and adults come to understand what it means to know. The five most famous epistemological theories, were focused on determining individuals beliefs about knowledge. In particular, these theories have many similarities and differences....

In this paper, I will try to introduce epistemic logic in the sense of the relation between modern logic and metaphysics and ontology. First, I will clarify disciplines such as what modern logic and epistemic logic is and then I will try to enlighten you...

To define what African epistemology is, Kaphagawani and Malherbe’s explanation of epistemology is an education of philosophies relating to and the possibility of information. For them it is also the assessment of beliefs and the basis of knowledge as well as the study of knowledge...

Introduction Indigenous scholars are every so often enticed to critical sociology and post-structuralism for their reproach of the positivism, grand theory, classic theories, and the functional perspective. West (2000) explains his journey as an Aboriginal Australian and states that as Indigenous Australian folks, the cultural...

In class, we have been discussing binary oppositional logic and how this affects our daily life. In my own terms of binary oppositional logic, binary opposites mean that a concept or idea that can only be clearly understood by comparing it to how different it...