/lit/ - Literature

>>16611562
You didn't even get dubs, dummy

>>16611896
check these

>>16611920
fuck

>>16611896
>>16611920
>>16611929
shut the frick up about dubs and tell me how to into epistemology!!!!!

>>16611562
Read Plato
Start with Meno

>>16611941
Ignore anyone suggesting ancients. You'll be wasting your time if you go that route. Start with the following.

https://jonathanweisberg.org/pdf/open-handbook-of-formal-epistemology.pdf

Richard Rorty's.

>>16613900
Richard Rorty never offered a unique epistemology. The bulk of his work was comprised of deflationist attacks on the tradition.

>>16613889
are you sure about this guy, anon?
he seems... jewish...

You kind of have to know at least a bit about all of it to have a firm opinion about any one part of it. You should try to gain some kind of understanding of the ancients, the early moderns, and then modern movements. The first two are relatively easy and can be divided up into schools, but the modern period is more complicated since it's when people start to get really up their own ass and writing becomes vague by default. Doesn't mean it's bad, just harder to get into as a newbie.

Pragmatism is pretty good but you will only really appreciate it as a contrast to pre-pragmatic epistemology and philosophy, like I said. Maybe take a look at Sellars' lectures on "The Metaphysics of Epistemology," and "Kant and Pre-Kantian Themes." These will probably filter you if you're new to thinking about these things, but they will give you a taste of sophisticated modern epistemology, and more than that, they will show you how sophisticated epistemology presupposes an understanding of past epistemology for points of reference.

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

>>16613923
You know what isn't vague? Bayesian epistemology.

>>16611562
>>16611896
>>16611920
>>16611941
“You have to try everything, for consumerist man is haunted by the fear of 'missing' something, some form of enjoyment or other. You never know whether a particular encounter, a particular experience (Christmas in the Canaries, eel in whisky, the Prado, LSD, Japanese-style love-making) will not elicit some 'sensation'. It is no longer desire, or even 'taste', or a specific inclination that are at stake, but a generalized curiosity, driven by a vague sense of unease - it is the 'fun morality' or the imperative to enjoy oneself, to exploit to the full one's potential for thrills pleasure or gratification.”

>>16613956
what does this have to do with you not getting dubs?
by the way, check this out