Epistemology

If knowledge isn’t justified true belief, what is it?

The rush for success is driving science into a corner, apart from wider culture.

How the null hypothesis keeps the hairy hominid alive.

Nothing obstructs access to the truth like a belief in absolute truthfulness.

In his essay for “Uncertainty,” the second issue of Nautilus, David Deutsch explains why you can never be entirely sure that a thought is undoubtedly correct. Despite that, he says we can still learn true things about the world, and that information be used in important pursuits like medicine.In the clip below, Deutsch identifies someone […]