This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Epistemological beliefs refer to an individual's thinking and beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. The present study examined ...

The study of virtue epistemology and epistemic luck interrogates the nature of knowledge by focusing on both the virtues of the knower and the role of chance in genuine knowledge acquisition. Virtue ...

Nietzsche famously, or infamously, depending upon one’s point of view, declared that “God is dead.” What Nietzsche, the atheist, purported to comment upon was the decline in the Christian faith that ...

Reviewing a prominent religious thinker’s magnum opus is no easy task. Imagine a fourteenth-century reader entrusted with the job of reviewing the Summa Theologica for a bimonthly folio-review. Or a ...

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 ...

People sometimes try to call others' beliefs into question by pointing out the contingent causal origins of those beliefs. The significance of such 'Etiological Challenges' is a topic that has started ...

It is important to become aware of the changes taking place in contemporary epistemology. Indeed, there is a powerful temptation within circles of power to respond to our current crisis by relying on ...

Competence is neither necessary nor sufficient for most of the successes we care about. Good outcomes can come about as a result of good luck, and the best, most expert efforts can be thwarted by bad ...