SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lilac Chaser, Derren Brown, Necker Cube
10 Oct 2016
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We started with the problem of distinguishing between opinion and knowledge: opinion is cheap, knowledge is valuable. On the standard account, opinion is just belief and knowledge is true rationally justified belief: belief at least gives us a starting point and we run with that. In order for belief to be knowledge, it has to be true and i have to believe it is true for the right kind of reasons. Good reason to accept it as true. Both descartes and hume are foundationalists with respect to justification, trying to answer the persistent skeptic: descartes: foundation is pure reason (clear and distinct perception) Anytime i clearly and distinctly perceive some thing to be true through my faculties of reason, i have rational justification. How true science rests upon a knowledge of the nature of god. The problem is that certainty is as cheap as opinion.
