What Has David Hume Got Against Rene Descartes?

What Plato Dialogue Should I Start with?

Republic is Plato’s most famous and most influential dialogue. In it he goes into depth…

Can You Put David Hume’s Philosophy in a Nutshell, Please?

Why Descartes Is So Sure that God Exists

Descartes believes that the relation of implication produces indefeasible truths. In less…

What Are David Hume’s Specific Arguments against the Principle of Induction?

Was Plato’s Definition of Knowledge Adequate?

Adequate for what? Two of Plato’s most important vessels of epistemological…

Whence Logic?

Writers do not precisely agree on what logic is, and without an exact definition, it would not be prudent to claim very decidedly that…

What Did The Pre-Socratic Philosophers Do that We Should Remember?

How Sharp Is Occam’s Razor?

Occam’s razor has, for many, come to name an explanatory principle that holds that the simplest explanation…

If I Truly Believe a Thing, Do I also Know It?

Nearly everyone who cares about such things seems to know that Socrates claims…