Tag: Knowledge
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August 4, 2023 Thanks to Dave Seng, HMU alumnus, for today’s post. In our last two posts we examined the nature of difficult questions—questions which cannot be reduced to utility or calculation and the rationality of humans contrasted with the functionality of AI. In this post I want to explore the question of wisdom. I …
July 28, 2023 Thanks to Dave Seng, HMU alumnus, for today’s post. To read the previous post in this series, visit hmu.edu In our last post we looked at the importance of questions and why self-reflection as individuals and a society is important. It seems part of the human situation to ask questions in order to …
October 28, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Fortunately for us, David Hume wrote a lot of his thoughts down in his book A Treatise on Human Nature. Yet it might not have been so. At the end of Book I, Hume admits, in lengthy detail, that he doubts himself, his …
October 7, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “a man’s vision is the great fact about him” – William James At the outset of The Pluralistic Universe, William James asks that all citizens learn to think for themselves. Furthermore, he feels that students should think for themselves rather than expect, await …
September 23, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. As recently discussed on this blog, I have begun a journey through the great idea of Knowledge. I want to better understand our sources of knowledge, how we think we know what we think we know. Really, I am trying to assess at …
August 26, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. From Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: “I wonder whether what I see and seem to understand about nature is merely one of the accidents of freedom, repeated by chance before my eyes, or whether it has any counterpart in the worlds beyond …
June 26, 2015 The search for knowledge is a crucial piece of humanity that traces back to the beginnings of man. Our ability to contain knowledge began as an oral tradition and slowly developed into readable texts, from ancient cave drawings to scrolls and, finally, to books. In the Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon claims: …
