131. Puzzles of Epistemology | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2017-11-15

Gettier problems, radical skepticism, the closure principle - “knowledge” is one hell of a rabbit hole. Let's take a look at some fun epistemology!

-Links for the Curious-

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s (SEP) fantastic article on epistemology - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/

The SEP on epistemic closure (& academic skepticism) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/closure-epistemic/ 

Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? (Gettier, 1963) - http://fitelson.org/proseminar/gettier.pdf

Philosophytube’s “Knowledge Explained” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlqJvHxVdM 

Crash Course’s “The Meaning of Knowledge” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXhJ3hHK9hQ

“On Certainty” (Wittgenstein, 1969) - http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/files/wittgenstein-on-certainty.pdf

“Debating Scientific Epistemology” (Dougherty, 2016) - https://www.nas.org/articles/debating_scientific_epistemology 


The Epistemology of Democracy (Anderson, 2006) - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/episteme/article/epistemology-of-democracy/F86F1D124D2E081116611043BD54CBD9