Previous Posts: Week 1, Week 2. In week 3, the class turned to argumentation. This again left me a fair bit of freedom, since the skill
Tag: epistemology
How sure you need to be depends on what you’re doing (Or: As usual I think social media discussions are missing a more fundamental disagreement, this time about a SCOTUS nominee)
Brett Kavanaugh is being considered for a position on the Supreme Court of the United States. He’s also been accused of sexual assault. This information
Defence Against Conspiracy Theories Undermining All of Our Beliefs
I somewhat recently relearned the importance of a lot of work in epistemology (philosophy of knowledge). Sometimes arguing another round about skepticism can feel divorced
Idealists are not climate change deniers
I find Berkeley to be an odd choice of foil in this article. The author introduces Berkeleian idealism, then poses the problem of a common
WP: Twin Pain
From the writing-prompt-s tumblr: You live in an alternate world where twins — fraternal and identical — can feel each other’s physical pain. You are
