Modern epistemology simply says that there must always exist a computable procedure to verify the justification of formal knowledge. Otherwise, it is not formal knowledge. — alcontali
When you're doing philosophy, you can focus on various subjects, various types of phenomena, etc. For example, there's philosophy of (or about) science, philosophy of (or about) art, philosophy of (or about) morality, etc. Some of those focuses have unique names, like aesthetics (philosophy of art) and ethics (philosophy of morality). Philosophy of science doesn't have a unique name, by the way. It's simply known as philosophy of science.
Well, epistemology is simply philosophy of knowledge. The focus is on questions like "What is knowledge," "What are the criteria for saying that we know something," etc. — Terrapin Station
Albert Einstein, Karl Guttenberg, Keppler, Galileo, the inventor of the Steam Engine, the sheep, the wheel, intromarital sex, the Information Superhighway, were all stubborn derrieres?I strongly believe that "the most intolerant wins".
You change the world, bit by bit, by being stubborn, intransigent, intolerant, and recalcitrant. — alcontali
I know philosophers have fantasized about perfect languages which would allow for god machines with which we could crank out truth after truth after truth... — jellyfish
What I take from modern philosophy is that most knowledge and the most important kinds of knowledge are not only not formal but not explicit at all. Formal knowledge is charming. — jellyfish
That's not a view I agree with. So how would it be the case that you find that everywhere in the world?
The problem with informal knowledge is that it has no objective justification. Therefore, its status as knowledge is necessarily uncertain. — alcontali
Here, less than half of correspondents have done any serious study. — Banno
Those who feel that they cannot sustain such an impression (again whether real but forgotten or not real makes no difference) and so had better go with a robust defence of auto didactia — Isaac
True, but I count about 20 or so people involved in this discussion and 31 polled, so most who polled also contributed some comments about it. Few of these are the contributors I would suspect have done some serious study, so I'm not so sure the poll is reflective of the community, but you may be right.
Of equal interest to me is the very premise behind such a question. This being an anonymous site, no one has any constraint to give an honest answer, so respondents, I think, will divide into three camps.
Those who see their best interests served by claiming some qualifications (whether real or not is irrelevant here).
Those who feel that they cannot sustain such an impression (again whether real but forgotten or not real makes no difference) and so had better go with a robust defence of auto didactia.
Those who feel that either claim (again no matter how truthful) automatically makes them seem like someone in either of the first two camps and so refrains from saying anything.
I suspect that serious students are here may well disproportionately fall into the last category and so be less well represented in the poll (presuming most who vote also comment, or course). — Isaac
This being an anonymous site, no one has any constraint to give an honest answer, — Isaac
I'm surprised that there are no students or associate's degrees. — Pfhorrest
I will say that the results so far surprise me some. I was expecting mostly autodidacts, then students, then decreasing numbers of the increasingly higher degrees, and while there are mostly autodidacts and degrees in descending order as expected, I'm surprised that there are no students or associate's degrees. — Pfhorrest
I would assume that anyone professing any interest in philosophy would already have come to terms with the non-negotiability of truth. — Pantagruel
Or they are the types, who for whatever reason reject the idea that formal training is important/beneficial for doing philosophy. — Artemis
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