LibGuides: Philosophy: Epistemology

Suggested Epistemology Reading: New Philosopher Magazine

Suggested articles to read in New Philosopher magazine, Issue 11: Technology.

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The End of the World, Andre Dao (pp.55-56)

Psyche: What Aboriginal people know about the pathways of knowledge
"What can living in one place for 60,000 years teach a people? Walking with Aboriginal people in the far North-West of Australia has given me some idea."

Suggested articles to read in New Philosopher magazine, Issue 24: Balance.

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Re-writing history, Tiffany Jenkins (pp.63-64)

Suggested articles to read in New Philosopher magazine, Issue 21: Power.

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Is knowledge power? Marina Benjamin (pp.90-93)

Suggested articles to read in New Philosopher magazine, Issue 23: Being Human.

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Faking intimacy, Sherry Turkle (pp.21-22)

Defining ourselves, Ai Wei Wei, (pp.52-53)

Suggested articles to read in New Philosopher magazine, Issue 13: Luck.

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Lucky Oedipus, Damon Young (pp.71-72)

Black swans, Andre Dao (pp.63-64)

Suggested articles to read in New Philosopher magazine, Issue 17: Communication.

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Virtual communication, Gillian Terzis (pp.65-66)

Suggested articles to read in New Philosopher magazine, Issue 19: Life.

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Language lessons, Angela Smith (pp.111-113)

Video: Introduction to Theory of Knowledge

Video: Analyzing Knowledge #1 (The Gettier Problem)

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Resources available in the NCC

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
ISBN: 9781922142436
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating, and storing ― behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (eBook) by David Hume
ISBN: 9780199211586
David Hume's arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the 'sophistry and illusion' of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the eighteenth century and are strikingly relevant today, when faith and science continue to clash. The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought, reaching the stark conclusion that we can have no ultimate understanding of the physical world, or indeed our own minds. In either sphere we must depend on instinctive learning from experience, recognizing our animal nature and the limits of reason.
Meditations on First Philosophy (eBook) by René Descartes
ISBN: 9780191539718
In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the thinker rejects all his former beliefs in the quest for new certainties. He develops new conceptions of body and mind to create a new science of nature.
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues (eBook) by George Berkeley
ISBN: 9780191592508
Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy of Marx.