by Daniel A. Kaufman ____ Both religion and philosophy endeavor to provide us with objective standards for our moral and aesthetic and other judgments, as
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From Passion to Belief
by Daniel Tippens David Hume, the 18th century Scottish philosopher and empiricist, did not believe that there are any self-evident truths (beyond the trivial “relations
Course Notes: Three Lectures on Knowledge
by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ As readers of Course Notes will know, I created an entirely new Introduction to Philosophy course this year. Profound changes
Belief and Knowledge Reconsidered
E. John Winner How did we ever come to use such an expression as “I believe . . . “? Did we at some time