Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge

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 physicist and a philosopher take on one of science's oddest puzzles: why time only runs forward. They contrast a gnoseological reading of the arrow of time, based on what we can know, with an ontological one based on how the world is.

Mario Castagnino, Juan José Sanguineti

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