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Tag: knowledge

  • Memory, truth, love; or, knowledge in the ethical response

    What is the role of memory (or knowledge or epistemology) in ethics? Is learning or knowing necessary in being ethical? Here is a thought experiment on memory and relations or interactions. Going about the day in a mall while waiting for a particular time, you started feeling thirsty. You decided to go to a coffee…

  • On being disruptive

    Cox defines epistemic agents as “beings for whom knowledge is salient to their formation of beliefs, their dispositions, and their actions”, this agency entailing “a preference for knowledge and both the ability and the will to be guided by it” (2024, 16). By this very definition, neither managers nor inforgs are true epistemic agents. For…

  • To be god is to be dead

    An old professor in my university notably begins a discussion with this question: if you were to one day wake up with the utmost certainty that there is no god, would anything change? The answers, predictably, can range from “nothing” to “everything”. The extent of the possibilities is what I find intriguing. Of course, something…

  • Self; assessment

    There is the idea that everything, or most things, that are to be evaluated must always be put into the context of chronological time. To have a particular action be looked at in its aspect of duration seems to be habitual now. For example, I was going to start writing here and one of my…