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What Is Truth: Wrestling with Absolutism, Relativism, and Alternative Facts (Re-Release from S01E21)

A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar

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The Virtue of Epistemic Humility

Kyle: "I just want to advocate for more humility and less confidence that we possess the truth" Paul: "It's okay to try to convince other people about it if you do so in an honest way," Kyle says. The humble person will present her opinions when it is appropriate to present them, he adds. In a blog post from early 2000s i give a description of an epistemic humble person who knows both her own limitations and her strengths.

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