Epistemology, derived from the Greek words episteme, meaning knowledge, and logos, meaning reason or argument, is a branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, scope, and sources of knowledge. It ...

Engineering is both a technical and a normative practice, involving judgments about evidence, models, uncertainty, and risks that carry ethical consequences. This workshop brings together philosophers ...

ABSTRACT: This paper functions as a brief introduction to virtue epistemology, a topic that has enjoyed a recent gain in popularity among analytic philosophers. Here I maintain that the defining ...

Moral psychology and social epistemology study how people think, decide and learn together. This research area explores how moral judgment works, how beliefs are formed and influenced and how ...

ABSTRACT: This paper presents an epistemological approach to the investigation of material properties that is opposed to both phenomenalistic epistemology and recent linguistical and ontological ...

How do you know what the weather will be like tomorrow? How do you know how old the Universe is? How do you know if you are thinking rationally? These and other questions of the “how do you know?” ...

Since the time of Descartes philosophers have sought to establish what justifies true beliefs by examining the epistemic conditions immediately underlying knowledge claims. As critics of this ...

This is a revision session on Virtue Epistemology from the AQA A Level Philosophy Specification. It be used as either a standard lesson or extra-curricular revision session. The lesson covers the ...