Gnoseology, Ontology, and the Arrow of Time

A rigorous open access monograph on basic knowledge, the beliefs we hold without having to earn them through evidence. McBride tests the classic conditions on knowledge, such as safety and sensitivity, against the puzzles that made them famous.

Mark McBride

Franco Trabattoni reads the Theaetetus, Cratylus, Republic and Parmenides to show how Plato thought we come to know, and why truth for him did not demand absolute certainty. An ideal companion to the classic texts on this page.

Franco Trabattoni

A close look at the postulates of scientific knowledge that Bertrand Russell set out in Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. It weighs how well his principles hold up against today's science.

Rafael Andrés Alemañ Berenguer

Is the hard problem of consciousness a real problem? Four philosophers argue it is a pseudo-problem created by the analytic framework, and propose treating consciousness as its own layer of reality.

Ekaterina Gnatik, Sergey Lokhov, Dmitry Mamchenkov, Maria Matyushova

How can we know what lies beyond words? This article explores apophaticism, the negative way of knowing in Eastern Christian theology, through Christos Yannaras and his dialogue with Western nihilism.

Federico Aguirre