PHILOSOPHY – Epistemology: The Value of Knowledge
[5:49] People tend to value knowledge; it’s better to know something than just to believe it, even if your belief is co…
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Philosophy – Epistemology: Contextualism
[8:44] In this Wireless Philosophy video, Geoff Pynn (Northern Illinois) explains epistemic contextualism, which s…
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Epistemology: The Preface Paradox
[9:49] Everybody has false beliefs, including you. But that means everyone’s beliefs are self-contradictory…
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Epistemology: Paradoxes of Perception #2 (Argument from Hallucination)
[7:21] Common sense takes for granted that we can typically just see physical objects without further hindrance. In th…
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Epistemology: Paradoxes of Perception #1 (Argument from Illusion)
[7:57] In this video, Dr Eugen Fischer (University of East Anglia) presents the ‘argument from illusion’. This ar…
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Epistemology: Analyzing Knowledge #3 (Causal and Reliabilist Theories)
[10:37] Is knowledge a matter of being causally connected to the world in the right way? In this Wireless Philosophy vid…
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Epistemology: Analyzing Knowledge #1 (The Gettier Problem)
[6:46] Is knowledge the same as justified true belief? In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jennifer Nagel (University …
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Epistemology: Analyzing Knowledge #2 (No-False-Lemma and No-Defeater Approaches)
[9:01] If we can’t analyze knowledge simply as justified true belief, can we add one more ingredient to produce a succ…
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Epistemology: Three Responses to Skepticism
[9:50] In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) looks at three historically influe…
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Epistemology: The Problem of Skepticism
[9:45] Is knowledge humanly possible? In this video, Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) looks at skeptical argum…
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