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To reflect upon

Professors

About the nature and grounds of knowledge [and]...its limits and validity

Portal:Epistemology

Outline of epistemology

  • What is knowledge?
  • How is knowledge acquired?
  • What do people know?

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Empiricism

Rationalism

Philosophical skepticism

Academic skepticism

Cartesian skepticism

Radical skepticism

Concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being

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Right vs. wrong

How do we take moral knowledge and put it into practice?

What do people think is right?

What does "right" even mean?

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Area of philosophy devoted to examining the scope and nature of logic. It is the investigation, critical analysis and intellectual reflection on issues arising in logic. The field is considered to be distinct from philosophical logic.

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Logic is the use and study of valid reasoning.

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Red herring fallacies
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AKA Classic philosophy

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Ancient Greek philosophy

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  • Herbert Spencer
    • Great Man theory (counter-argument)

      In 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present: Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.

    • Survival of the fittest

French philosophers

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Political philosophers

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