A Brief History of Epistemology

This is an introductory program on epistemology, which travels from Plato’s cave to Gettier cases, while addressing, along the way, questions such as: What does it mean to really know something? And how can one know that one knows it? Explaining the principles of epistemology are Rutgers University’s Alvin Goldman and Peter Klein and Princeton University’s Alexander Nehamas and Daniel Garber. Their insights, in combination with incisive excerpts from Aristotle’s De Anima, Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, Locke’s An Essay on Human Understanding, Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature, and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, illuminate the complexity of “truth.” This is part of the series on Great Ideas of Philosophy.

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[GottfriedLeibnizYT]

34:45
I'm so happy that a 40-minute introductory documentary on epistemology recognized the significance of Quine's naturalized epistemology and included it in its tight time window along with the big key figures in the history of epistemology.

[TheAtheist]

I increasingly become a follower of Philosophy Overdose.

[ShaneDiffily]

"The 3 major empiricists were all English - John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume".
- David Hume. Scottish.
- George Berkeley. Irish.
- John Locke. English.
A justified true belief undermined. (19:45)

[tomrobingray]

A man was schoolboy back in the good old days when schoolboys were beaten. His teacher would get him to recite his times table, and if he got it wrong the teacher would beat him. Now if anyone says "8 times 12" to the man he will immediately shout "96", but because of his trauma he will not, and can not believe he knows his times table, and will vehemently deny any such knowledge. So does he KNOW his times table?

[endoalley]

How does a theory of reality such as that of Donald Hoffman fit in with this approach to epistemology? That our mind's assumptions of time, spatial dimensions and sensory perceptions have necessarily been constructed to be incapable of allowing us the ability to apprehend true knowledge of reality?

[sof]

George Berkeley was Irish, born: March 12, 1685, Dysart Castle, Kilkenny. One could argue that he was culturally British (not English as stated in the video @ 19:48) due to his Anglo-Irish background.

[DRYouAcc]

Great video, but George Berkeley was Irish, not English!

[luckylucd]

22:03 really exemplifies the “Europe is my favourite country” idea

[robertalenrichter]

Starts with the Greeks, then devotes all the time to Anglo-American philosophers, with 60 seconds in total for Kant and Wittgenstein, who of course, studied at Cambridge :)

[spitfirerulz]

The title should be "A Brief History of Epistemology IN THE WEST". Nothing wrong with limited scope, but let's please be more self-aware than this. The ability to think is NOT the monopoly of Europeans and their descendants.

Epistemology has a very rich and deep tradition in Indian and Chinese philosophy. What counts as a valid basis of "knowing" something (pramāna) was what in fact caused heated disputes and splinters among the 16 major schools of Indian philosophy.

[philflip]

Much seems to have been made of Gettiers 'insight', however he seems to be adding virtually nothing to what has gone before. It should be obvious from what has been previously said that we cannot be absoloutely sure about the truth of any statement or conceptualisation of states of affairs in any external relaity that is itself cojeceptualised to exist.
All that remains is to argue rather pettily about the extent to which the term 'justifird belief' can be held to be synonymous with 'infallible knowledge'.
WHAT A FUSS OVER NOTHING!
This kind of things gives Philosophy a bad name!

[lescommercantesdindochine]

I must admit, I first read this title as A brief history of EPSTEIN MEMES" ... was expecting Jeffrey Epstein memes here.

[Kurtlane]

For the first time I actually understand a bit of epistemology. Thanks.

Personally, I agree with Richard Feynman.

"The question of whether or not when you see something you see only the light or you see the thing you are looking at is one of those dopy philosophical things that an ordinary person has no difficulty with. Even the most profound philosopher, when sitting eating his dinner, hasn't any difficulty figuring out that what he is looking at perhaps might be only the light from the steak, but it still implies the existence of the steak, which he is able to lift by the fork into his mouth. The philosophers that were unable to make that analysis of that idea have fallen by the wayside through hunger. "

39:38. He is describing a Potemkin village. Queen Catherine the Great actually thought these were real houses and barns, but if she were to look behind them, she would discover they were only facades.

[mindjob]

I thought this was about Epsteinology. My bad

[lmb]

Hume's ideas around causality are total nonsense. Do cars work? Computers? Plows? Can you raise chickens for food? Can you read? Asserting that causes are not real is completely contrary to what is real. Because causes can be interrupted or misunderstood does not negate them. Causes exist, and we use them every day to survive.

[robertobomfin]

Nice video. To me, epistemology and metaphysics should be investigated jointly. It seems that something is missing when you do not explicitly consider the fundamental aspects of reality that are assumed (although it is always implicit).

[kafiruddinmulhiddeen]

I have cracked the foundation. My one assumption is that there is no assumption. Everything flows from that

[ernstrichardmesserle]

Soulorientation might be a desire of the blind person in us. Allegoria of something embryonatical inner being, made of getting born = Came to life =
Fullfillment ??!! Or lustfull thougts ??!!
Who knows ??!!
Omnia gratia.

[tankbyers]

is hegel not in this other than a picture of his book at the start

[GottfriedLeibnizYT]

Could someone please provide the name of this documentary?