In the wake of Kant and his critics I think we can assume with calm certainty that we do not and cannot have access to a thing as such in any form. And in the wake of Ryle and others… Read More ›
Month: December 2019
Response to Jeroen de Ridder’s “So What if ‘Fake News’ is Fake News?” David Coady
It is tempting to accept the studies de Ridder (2019) cites in support of my position that the fake news scare has been “overhyped”. However, since I have argued there is no fake news problem at all, I cannot accept… Read More ›
Do We See Icons or Reality? A Review of Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality, Brian Martin
Imagine looking at a computer desktop. You see various icons that you can modify, move around, stick into folders and delete. The desktop is a type of reality. If you wanted, you could formulate an ontology and epistemology, or laws… Read More ›
Against Empirical-ish Philosophy: Reply to Mizrahi, Jeroen de Ridder
Is the debate about scientism ‘a battle for the soul of philosophy’, as Moti Mizrahi (2019) contends? If it is, it is unlikely that the proponents of scientism would be inclined to put it this way.[please read below the rest… Read More ›
Enriching the Chinese Intellectual Legacy: A Review of Li Zehou’s A History of Classical Chinese Thought, Jana S. Rošker
Regarding the issue of social epistemology, the present book is an important source for obtaining a better understanding of such models of constructing knowledge which are based on collective experiences, and which simultaneously offer manifold insights into its social dimensions…. Read More ›
