December 2023

The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, limits, sources, and justifications of human knowledge. https://youtube.com/shorts/68M4peZrQOY?feature=share

Knowledge is closed (under entailment) if we know every proposition entailed by a known proposition. Epistemic closure is central to skepticism, since the truth of everyday facts entail that skepticism…

The theory that bodily states cause mental states but mental states do not affect the body. These mental states are the effects of physical processes (brain and nervous system). An…

Epicurus’s view that a life of moderate pleasures and the avoidance of pain (mentaldisturbance) is the goal of happy human existence. https://youtube.com/shorts/ObjH6Z7tsHQ?feature=share

The having of a right. https://youtube.com/shorts/tBm4A06G8aE?feature=share

(1) The period of intense intellectual development, from roughly the end of the sixteenth century through the end of the eighteenth, on the Continent and Britain. Enlightenment thought is characterized…

One who holds that knowledge of the empirical world is derived solely from sense experience. https://youtube.com/shorts/VLQ5uK9qs1g?feature=share

The philosophical view that knowledge is derived from sense experience. https://youtube.com/shorts/Vd9QVKrFh3E?feature=share

The view, most prominently represented by George Berkeley (1685-1753), that only ideas and minds exist; there are no material objects. https://youtube.com/shorts/Sr6Wg06YhwI?feature=share

Those features of a (specific) person discoverable through experience. Compare with Transcendental ego. https://youtube.com/shorts/516kx_xu-TA?feature=share