Roger Scruton is a great contemporary philosopher. You should run out and read everything he ever wrote. His specialty is aesthetics, but he is versatile. I read him in part for his handle on developments in philosophy over the last few hundred years, including especially the influence of Friedrich Hegel, the preeminent late-18th century philosopher. On the key philosophical subject of […]
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Coherentism
How do we know anything? On what basis do we form our beliefs? What makes one belief justified, and another not? Welcome to the wacky world of epistemology, the study of knowledge. Not the content of knowledge, but rather the process by which we acquire it. What is Truth Going back to the Greek philosophers, […]
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