What You Can Know Is the Easiest One to Define

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i think climate change 23rd century listeners are going to be like oh thank you i just think in a climate change isn't going to kill us quick enough for that to be irrelevant to people um so which nowadays is kind of like become sort of a heated topic of dispute outside of just academic circles right again. The broad idea stated very generally very loosely of standpoint epistemology is something like who you are what social position you occupy makes a difference to who like what you can know and how reliable you're going to be certain kinds of reasoning tasks it was reallywhat you can know or how you know it or both depending on formulation can be i for both okay well fine if i was going to

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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