Frank Vidmar. Philosophical Dialogues #16 (On Epistemology)

We’ve covered a lot of ground here, discussing the main epistemological concepts such as knowledge, truth, belief and justification. Outline: 0:00 - Epistemology 4:45 - Atomic facts and propositions 5:10 - Knowledge 6:45 - Facts 9:32 - Definitions 14:40 - Mea culpa 15:10 - Precision and accuracy 25:00 - Pragmatic theories of truth 30:49 - Social constractivism 38:42 - Science 42:26 - Beliefs 44:17 - Representationalism 46:14 - Bijective, injective and surjective functionalities 52:30 - Fiction 56:33 - Functionalism 1:00:50 - The theory of speech acts 1:03:36 - Locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts 1:08:10 - Putnum and super Spartans 1:16:23 - Ought and is 1:24:55 - Boolean logic 1:31:46 - Justified true belief 1:38:16 - Scepticism 1:45:01 - Gettier problem