Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s own ignorance. —Confucius What if we are being radically deceived? What if I am no more than a brain kept alive in a vat and fed with stimuli by a mad ...

But there is another problem lurking in the tripartite theory of knowledge. In 1963, Edmund Gettier published a two-and-a-half page paper showing that it is possible to hold a justified true belief ...

I am always fascinated about how much great information there is online. I'm also a bit miffed at how much that information can hold back patients. When you have a chronic illness, there is the period ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its sixth month, Illinoisians are being put to difficult choices about what risks are acceptable. Given the large numbers of us and our different personal situations ...

We all remember our school days when teachers used to bombard us with proverbs which underlined the idea that knowledge is power. Some back-benchers scoffed at them while the nerds embraced the latter ...

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. Why? It is impossible for ...