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The Knower, Inside And Out, Steven Luper
The Knower, Inside And Out, Steven Luper
Philosophy Faculty Research
Adherents of the epistemological position called internalism typically believe that the view they oppose, called externalism, is such a new and radical departure from the established way of seeing knowledge that its implications are uninteresting. Perhaps it is relatively novel, but the approach to knowledge with the greatest antiquity is the one that equates it with certainty, and while this conception is amenable to the demands of the internalist, it is also a non-starter in the opinion of almost all contemporary epistemologists since obviously it directly implies that we know nothing about the world. Perhaps skepticism is correct, but …
Internal Realism: Transcendental Idealism?, Curtis Brown
Internal Realism: Transcendental Idealism?, Curtis Brown
Philosophy Faculty Research
Idealism is an ontological view, a view about what sorts of things there are in the universe. Idealism holds that what there is depends on out own mental structure and activity. Berkeley of course held that everything was mental; Kant held the more complex view that there was an important distinction between the mental and the physical, but that the structure of the empirical world depended on the activities of the mind.
Technology: The Future Of Our History, Lawrence Kimmel
Technology: The Future Of Our History, Lawrence Kimmel
Philosophy Faculty Research
In a public lecture delivered at the University of Cincinnati, Larry Kimmel meditates on the changes that technology is producing in the way humans think of reality and their role in that reality.