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Latent Knowledge: Meno
The Meno poses the question “What is virtue?”, and Socrates claims to be completely ignorant of the answer. Socrates’s and Meno’s search for an...
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Popper’s Evolutionary Therapy to Meno’s Paradox
Meno’s paradox raises serious challenges against most fundamental epistemological quest regarding the possibility of inquiry and discovery. In his...
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Serendipity and Ignorance Studies
Selene Arfini seeks to resolve a long-standing paradoxParadox and the seemingly exclusive dichotomy between knowledgeKnowledge and ignoranceIgnorance...
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The Platonism of Modern Physical Science: Historical Roots and “Rational Reconstruction”
Perhaps the most influential historian of science of the last century, Alexandre Koyré, famously argued that the icon of modern science, Galileo...
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Towards a pragmatist epistemology for theory choice in logic
In this paper, I outline a pragmatist epistemology of logic inspired by later work of Charles S. Peirce that shares many features with an...
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The Active Fallibilism of a Situational Skeptic
The Great Instauration, a Baconian project, is a form of active fallibilism about natural knowledge. The practice is borrowed from Plato’s new form...
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Desiring to Know: Curiosity as a Tendency toward Discovery
Both the commonsensical and the philosophical understanding of curiosity as the desire to know display similar ambiguities. In philosophy, such...
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Meno’s paradox and medicine
The measurement of diagnostic accuracy is an important aspect of the evaluation of diagnostic tests. Sometimes, medical researchers try to discover...
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Evolutionary anamnesis
In the Meno , Phaedo , and Phaedrus , Plato outlines the controversial thesis of a priori knowledge that all learning is a form of recollection— anamnesis ...
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The Dual-Function Thesis
In raising the ‘What is F?’ question, commentators disagree about whether Socrates is asking a conceptual question (about the meaning of a...
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Socrates’ Failures and their Implications for Moral Psychology in the Early Dialogues
Consideration of internal structure and context challenges the Socratic studies perspective on moral psychology in the early dialogues. In the early...
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On Whether It Is and What It Is
This dialogue, taking place between Prof. Whether and Prof. What, focuses on the nature of the relationship between ontology, conceived as the branch...
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Mathematics Is a Mixed Bag
Mathematics is a mixed bag—a bit generous if we are speaking of whatever things have gone by the name of mathematics up to the present day. On the...
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Introduction—A Science of Serendipity?
In this volume, we bring together for the first time the diverse threads within the field of serendipity research, to reflect both the origins of...
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Ontological Wonder as Operative Wonder
In Chap. 3 , I turn explicitly to the development of an ontology of wonder. I define ontological wonder as an...
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Introduction: Philosophy as Thinking
I argue that in Emerson’s essays Emerson does not just reveal the fruits of his thinking but actually engages in thinking in the writing of the...
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The Logic of Learning
An intensional logic is presented and suggested as a framework for a formal investigation of learning. The framework allows for discussing and...
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Vedānta: A Survey of Recent Scholarship (II)
This article surveys recent work on Vedānta, focusing on English-language secondary scholarship since the year 2000. The article consists of two...
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The unconscious as sedimentation: threefold manifestations of the unconscious in consciousness
This article explores the notion of the unconscious ( das Unbewusste ) in terms of its nature and constitutive manifestations in consciousness. In...
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Francis Bacon’s Elenchus
Since the interpretation of Francis Bacon’s method is new, it will need to be supported by his text. This chapter combines his entire method with key...