The modern era is an epistemological era; we subject our hypotheses to skeptical scrutiny and look to the world for answers instead of being satisfied either with religious or philosophical dogmas. That rejection of the past comes with new anxieties: what validates our beliefs? How can we be sure of what we know? How do we separate out reasonable beliefs from unbounded speculation or outright falsehood?
New ways of knowing
New ways of knowing
New ways of knowing
The modern era is an epistemological era; we subject our hypotheses to skeptical scrutiny and look to the world for answers instead of being satisfied either with religious or philosophical dogmas. That rejection of the past comes with new anxieties: what validates our beliefs? How can we be sure of what we know? How do we separate out reasonable beliefs from unbounded speculation or outright falsehood?