Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right, but then doubts creep …
"Since the global economic crisis of 2007-2008, 'capitalism' has been the topic of widespread general discussion in both mainstream and social media. In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the discourses of capitalism taken up by people in their responses to a street art insta…
1. Trade is good -- 2. Extreme Voter stupidity -- 3. The obvious and simple system of unnatural Liberty -- 4. Ecological irrationality in the wild -- 5. Bohemian status-archy -- 6. Anarchy, state, and dystopia -- 7. Too much social capital -- 8. The poverty of DIYism -- 9. Socia…
Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world. 'Perception and Basic Beliefs' addresses two central questions in epistemology: which beliefs are epistemologically basic (i.e., noninferentially justified) and where does perception end and inferential cogn…
Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world. 'Perception and Basic Beliefs' addresses two central questions in epistemology: which beliefs are epistemologically basic (i.e., noninferentially justified) and where does perception end and inferential cogn…