The USA is ideologically divided into mainly polar opposites presently and tends to look at the other political party through "black-an...

The human brain is finite and subject to many biases. If one rejects or hasn't been exposed to science and science-based thinking, one i...

"So today we're going to look at examples of this in action: cases where sound science had been accepted, and then new data and new...

The major religions of today began when written communication was rudimentary and well before modern science evolved. It was a period of ign...

"Progress often feels like it only happens when no one is looking. Because it's one step forward two steps back, it's easy to g...

The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences...

This phrase is famously attached to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech delivered on August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ...

"It’s much easier to make decisions that offer immediate satisfaction, rather than decisions that offer satisfaction decades from now. ...

Ontology   is the branch of philosophy regarding the nature of reality.  Epistemology is the branch of philosophy regarding knowledge and i...

KNOWLEDGE philosophically is commonly taken to mean JUSTIFIED, true belief ( link ). A conflict persists over whether science depends on its...

Different types of knowledge have differing levels of certainty, and there is a hierarchy of such. From the highest to lowest ( link ): Math...

" Hank talks about some philosophy stuff, like a few of the key concepts philosophers use when discussing belief and knowledge, such as...

There is subjective knowledge, the knowledge we have within ourselves through our senses. Then, there is objective, empirical knowledge obse...

Yes, I came across this term recently and I am definitely one of them.  HT Aron Ra A person who does not use faith to know things-especial...

I, and many other atheists, have said that all arguments for a god or the supernatural are arguments from ignorance.  Why do we say this?  B...

Whenever I get into a discussion with a philosopher or religious apologist, the subject of "Ways of Knowing" other than through s...