Is There a Good Place to Be in the Middle of These Claims?

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Philosophical reflection tends to get one to be more careful about is separating out claims about how you know and claims about what's true. So very often some of the most heated debate about um about for instance standpoint epistemology people attribute to standpoint epistemologists who are saying who you are makes a difference to what you know or claim that you are makes an impact on what you know. One of them is far more plausible yeah than the other i mean, so it's difficult but good place to be in the middle of all these claims right?

Everybody talks about the truth, but nobody does anything about it. And to be honest, how we talk about truth — what it is, and how to get there — can be a little sloppy at times. Philosophy to the rescue! I had a very ambitious conversation with Liam Kofi Bright, starting with what we mean by “truth” (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, and deflationary approaches), and then getting into the nitty-gritty of how we actually discover it. There’s a lot to think about once we take a hard look at how science gets done, how discoveries are communicated, and what different kinds of participants can bring to the table.

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Liam Kofi Bright received his Ph.D. in Logic, Computation and Methodology from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently on the faculty of the London School of Economics in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and the Scientific Method. He has worked on questions concerning peer review and fraud in scientific communities, intersectionality, logical empiricism, and Africana philosophy. He is well-known on Twitter as the Last Positivist.

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