Sunday, November 4, 2007

Relevant Links

I have researched a number of alternate web sites that center around private and/or public knowledge. Each site is listed along with the implications of the site.


http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/russell1.htm Theory of Knowledge: This gives an overview of Bertand Russell, and his theory of knowledge, discussing private and public knowledge, but does little to discuss the implications of both.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-acquaindescrip/
Knowledge by Acquaintance vs. Description: This site gives both the definition to knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description, as well as the criticisms that go along with each of these two types of knowledge.

http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/past_messages/knowledge_waite.htm
Knowledge and Experience: This site explains what it means for public knowledge to be knowledge by experience, because this type of knowledge can be described by is not the same unless it is experienced.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/
Epistemology: This site gives an overview of what defines epistemology and gives the implications of each subtopic within. This site gives in an in depth look at many of the implications involved in knowledge, such as ambiguity and skepticism. This site also gives some of the sources of knowledge, such as perception and reason.

http://www.ils.unc.edu/~losee/b5/node9.html
Belief and Knowledge: This web site discusses justified true belief, and what is considered to be justified true belief, as well is giving the implications to truth.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/t/truth.htm
Truth: This website defines truth and gives all of the relevant implications to what truth is, as well as some constraints to what determines truth.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence/
The Correspondence Theory of Truth: This web site defines and describes what is known as the correspondence theory of truth. It is important to understand this theory because truth plays such a large role in determining what is private and whet is public knowledge.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-coherence/
The Coherence Theory of Truth: This website defines and describes what is known as the coherence theory of truth. It is important to understand this theory because truth plays such a large role in determining what is private and what is public knowledge.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/p/PeirceBi.htm
Charles Sanders Peirce: This web site is a biography of Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, and discusses his pragmatic theory of truth.

http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/articles/pragmatism-a.pdf
“The Pragmatic Theory of Truth” By William James: This web site describes the pragmatic theory more in depth, and was in fact written by Peirce’s colleague William James.

http://www.mnstate.edu/hong/PHIL101/parti.htm
Knowledge and Certainty: This web site discusses knowledge by saying that knowledge is justified true belief. It then goes on to discuss this definition of knowledge in terms of opinion, experiences, and the senses.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justep-intext/
Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification: This web site provides the implications on defining knowledge.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=UCdQnMqZfAMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&ots=LN_qZg95yS&sig=sDMxGeWb1_AmzNml72T353SSIY8#PPA103,M1
Plato on Knowledge and Reality: The web site gives Plato’s ideas and theories on the topic of knowledge and reality. This shows bias towards Plato’s individual ideas, although his theories are backed up with evidence.

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-2638%28197603%2936%3A3%3C150%3AIUJTBK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage
Is Undefeated Justified True Belief Knowledge? By Jeffrey Olen: Discusses the implications of justified true belief and its relation to knowledge

http://www.jstor.org/view/00318205/di014961/01p0052r/0
Evaluational Illusions and Skeptical Arguments: Discusses skepticism in arguments of knowledge, eliminates biases created through skepticism.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/
Skepticism: Describes the different types of skepticism and skepticisms implications in relation to knowledge.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/descarte.htm
René Descartes: This web site provides a biography of Descartes life works and his theories in relation to skepticism and knowledge.

http://www.jstor.org/view/00264423/di984380/98p0116l/0
III. Knowledge and Belief By Norman Malcolm: Describes what can be seen as knowledge through the eyes of Norman Malcolm, a philosopher. Belief cannot be mistaken for knowledge because knowledge can be determined though certainty.

http://www.jstor.org/view/0022362x/di972692/97p0441f/0
Knowledge of Other Minds: Discusses the idea of the knowledge that other people have, in other words their private knowledge. This knowledge is individual and only assumptions can be made.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evidence/
Evidence: This article defines what is meant by evidence in knowledge and its implications, such as objectivity and publicity.

2 comments:

Mike said...

I find your poll both limiting and bias. I agree with non of the listed answers.

Me said...

I was not trying so much to iliminate bias or anything like that. My pole was more to help me see where my audiance stands, to help me form my argument and let me know where to start.