Foundationalism vs. Coherentism: The Structure of Justified Belief
Examines whether knowledge rests on basic, self-evident beliefs or emerges from a mutually supporting web of propositions. Includes contemporary debates in analytic philosophy.
Empiricism in the Digital Age: Can Algorithms Know?
Traces Locke and Hume's sensory-based epistemology into modern machine learning, questioning whether pattern recognition constitutes genuine understanding or mere correlation.
The Gettier Problem Revisited: What Counts as Knowledge?
A modern analysis of Edmund Gettier's counterexamples to justified true belief, exploring virtue epistemology and reliabilism as responses to epistemic luck.
Social Epistemology: How Communities Shape What We Know
Explores how testimony, expert consensus, and institutional trust form the backbone of collective knowledge, with applications to scientific practice and misinformation.
Rationalism and the Mathematics of Truth
Investigates Descartes, Leibniz, and Gödel's influence on the claim that reason alone can yield certain knowledge, and what formal systems reveal about epistemic limits.
Fallibilism and the Pursuit of Certainty in Scientific Inquiry
Peirce and Popper argued that knowledge is inherently revisable. This piece examines how scientific progress thrives not on absolute truth, but on systematic error-correction.