Epistemology: How Do I Know? | Episode 1807 | Closer To Truth

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. How can we have confidence in what we know or believe? What is knowledge? What is belief? How is belief justified? And is justified belief knowledge? How can we not doubt everything? Featuring interviews with Robert Audi, Meghan Sullivan, Bas C. van Fraassen, Louis Caruana, and David Bentley Hart.

Season 18, Episode 7 - #CloserToTruth

Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant.

Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

#Epistemology #Consciousness

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[eldonbrown]

I feel so blessed to have found this channel on YouTube. This show is so thought provoking and informative.

[abhishekshah]

I think of a question, Robert comes with a video. Love this channel.

[hishamgornass]

This is such an amazing channel.
You are doing an amazing job Robert.
Never stop ♥️

[chrisjonesii]

Anyone else just stumble upon Epistemology and now you question everything around you? Maybe Im just super high right now but wow my mind is blown

[shiddy.]

I suddenly find myself excited to watch a video about epistemology

this channel is exceptional at creating an interest to learn more ... bravo

[Jonnygurudesigns]

Today is the first I've heard the word epistemology.. Goggled it.. Got it.. I love how much this channel has opened my mind and how much of a learning process I've experienced here.. Big fan..

[frankcallo]

This is the best, most susinct summation of the problem I have seen here on YouTube. I got my BA in philosophy and my experience was that people, professors and students alike, tended to sweep these questions under the carpet once they found an argument strong enough to support their intuitions. Epistemology is intelectual criptonite.

[icklinmorgan]

The fact that one can have favourite epistemologist is a new thought. I do admire too the person reply when he was asked the question. He said he himself is his favourite

[yuda]

This is possibly the best channel on YouTube. This is no easy feat.

[nealpeterson]

"Epistemology, the knowledge of knowing, is part of ontology, the knowledge of being, for knowing is an event within the totality of events." - Paul Tilich

[leo]

Dear Sir Robert Kuhn,

i wish that the cosmos will give you a long and truthful life so that you can continue making videos like these.

i want you to know that i deeply appreciate all of its contents. you are my ultimate buddy on my personal quest for truth. this place we are currently in is kind of deppressing and full of uncertainty. im only 29 years old but i am already filled with disturbing questions about my existence and origin.

thank you so much for giving me some comfort and temporary answers.


Leo

[redpillpusher]

....and the winner of The Best Word Salad Award goes to


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[iLikeMyOwnPosts]

Once a woman took me home from the dance club for a one night stand. She had a book titled "epistemology" on her book shelf. She ghosted me after that, but I've never forgotten her.

[bfree]

I’m always using this phrase... closer to truth... in research courses.

[guillermobrand]

Knowing what lies behind the desire to know is ignored knowledge. Knowing about it is essential to try to satisfy our desire to know.

[richardmooney]

We can say that we "know" things, but how do we know we know? We don't. Being convinced of a belief does not make that belief true, it just makes it true that we are convinced. We could be wrong but we don't think we are. At the most basic level, if everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet, what we "know" is true only if everybody else would reach the same conclusion when presented with the same evidence. It might be called "functional truth". And that's the best we've got. Absolute truth might exist, but it is not accessible.

[EBreezy]

Robert you and this channel are amazing! Thank you so much! So, insightful, so fun.

[lzdmlky]

I have enjoyed this channel since I discovered it (although I was surprised to learn Kuhn is not a philosopher by trade). This is arguably the best episode I have screened thus far, and I have screened quite a few.

Bottomline is we cannot "know" anything, and we will always be searching using the limited "tools" we have available to us, one being language itself which will always be nothing more than a never ending search to describe anything and everything.

[samrogers]

This is my favorite episode that I've watched. I need to watch it a couple more times. I'm not a philosopher or scholar. These just help me admit to myself I don't "know" what I thought I knew. I'm not going to abandon ship, I'm just gonna shut up a little more.