Sign in or register
for additional privileges

MACHINE DREAMS

Alexei Taylor, Author
Epistemology, page 2 of 3
Previous page on path     Next page on path

 

You appear to be using an older verion of Internet Explorer. For the best experience please upgrade your IE version or switch to a another web browser.

Epistemology

As the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier calls it the “theory of knowledge,” the term epistemology can be defined to be the study of the nature of knowledge. The field of epistemology consists of analyzing the limitations and validity of obtaining knowledge in various academics. 

One example of an epistemological thinking would be when Neo in the movie the Matrix doubts whether the world he lives in is really the reality. Sometimes, this epistemological thinking can lead to new revelations in a person’s beliefs. In the Matrix this act of engaging in epistemological thinking is represented as Neo taking the red pill as after Morpheus tells him the truth that he was actually living in a virtual world of the Matrix. Other times, an epistemological thinking can lead to confirming of the conventional truth.
Comment on this page
  • Local Discussion
    •
  • Popout
    •
 

Discussion of "Epistemology"

Add your voice to this discussion.

Checking your signed in status ...

Previous page on path Epistemology, page 2 of 3 Next page on path
Jiwon Shin

Related:  Hugo,  Jaquet-Droz - "The Writer",  Final essay background,  Jaquet-Droz automata,  Hybrid,  Gregory Barsamian - Runner,  What makes an observer modern; Jiwon Shin,  Nanook of the North, Robert FLAHERTY, 1921,  The first encounter,  Hypothesis,  The ideas and values behind,  Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History,  Simulacra,  Bibliography,  Jaquet-Droz automatons,  Angry birds shirt tags,  Aura handwritten,  Maintaining the Writer,  Technology used in automata,  Are Humanzees Possible?,  Phenakistoscope Phenakistiscope Optical Toy Fantascope,  Matrix - The pill,  The Matrix Poster,  Hugo and the city,  Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life,  jiwon,  Hugo magic trick,  Spectator,  Conclusion,  Angry Birds as a social tool,  Resources,  Toothed wheels,  Bibliography,  Development story of the Angry Birds,  The Human Touch: Towards a Historical Anthropology and Dream Analysis of Self-acting Instruments,  Presence,  Automatons and its sources of fascination,  Sources of fascination (3) - Threat of automatons,  The Bird's social purpose,  Sources of fascination (1) - Playing god,  Aura,  Alterity,  The technology behind,  Presence footprints,  Questions,  Hugo turns into an automaton,  background for ethnography,  Final essay - Proposal,  Symbolic,  Sources of fascination (4) - Mechanization of men,  The Writer,  the Writer,  Gregory Barsamian - Feral Font,  Bershka and its connection to Angry Birds,  The Uncanny,  the Writer,  Sources of fascination (2) - Representations of memory,  the Writer - inside,  Angry Birds,  Frans Zwartjes "Spectator" (1970),  The digesting duck,  Persistence of vision