Tag: empiricism
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An Evidence Problem
Professor Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True, recently asked the people of faith who correspond with him from time to time to say what evidence they would accept for the non-existence or non-reality of God. His point is that he’s able to say what evidence he would accept for the existence or reality […]
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Assumptions, Questioned and Un-
What counts as knowledge – that is, knowledge of reality? This is a question for the philosophers, in the end; but, as Gramsci said, everyone is a philosopher, so it’s a question for all of us. And while Gramsci’s point was that everyone has a philosophy, one they live by, some philosophers are better than […]
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Reasonably Foolish Trust?
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984 (https://genius.com/George-orwell-nineteen-eighty-four-book-1-chapter-7-annotated) On my mind: the fundamental difficulty in discerning when, and about what, to trust what we might want to call “special revelation” in preference to “general revelation” – that is, the […]
Matters of Interpretation 