Epistemology Quotes

• Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Contact
  • Scheme

• Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Intuition
  • Philosophers
  • Priori

• Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Suffering
  • Policy
  • Theory

• Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Virtue
  • Ethics
  • Epistemology

• Systems philosophy first must find out the "nature of the beast" This is the question of what is meant by "system", and how systems are realized in reality in various levels of observation. In Laslo's terms, this is the methodology and theory of natural systems. Secondly, there is epistemology, i.e. the methodology and theory of cognitive systems.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Reality
  • Philosophy
  • Observation

• The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.

  

  Anthony Malcolm Daniels
  • Right
  • Angry
  • Epistemology

• The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • World
  • Real
  • Physics

• Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical subfields, such as metaphysics, action theory, language, and mind. It is not as though all questions of armchair, traditional epistemology are already settled conclusively, with unanimity or even consensus. We still need to reason our way together to a better view of those issues.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Science
  • Language
  • Philosophy

• The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that is so outside the epistemology of the a priori.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Philosophical
  • Experiments
  • Priori

• The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Goal
  • Achieve
  • Evidence

• What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at the same time a means and an object of explanation, helping to uphold, and itself upheld by, ontology, as the parts of any true philosophy mutually will sustain each other.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Philosophy
  • Explanation
  • Ontology