Tag
Knowledge
Entries tagged knowledge.
3 entries
Thinker
Michel Foucault
The philosopher who argued that power does not merely repress us but produces us, manufacturing the subjects, truths, and normalities we take for granted.
12 min
Thought experimentThe Brain in a Vat
How could you tell, from the inside, that you are not a disembodied brain in a tank being fed a lifelike stream of fake experience?
8 min
Thought experimentThe Gettier Problem
A short 1963 paper showed that a belief can be true, and justified, and still not count as knowledge, breaking a definition that had stood since Plato.
9 min