5: Knowledge and Descartes
Egg Timer Philosophy
English - May 27, 2020 07:50 - 8 minutes - 8.25 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What, if anything, can we know with absolute certainty? In this episode of the egg timer we take a critical look at the answer Rene Descartes gives to this question. His answer has provided the foundation for the last 400 years of philosophical thought surrounding knowledge.
Art Attribution: Frans Hals - André Hatala [e.a.] (1997) De eeuw van Rembrandt, Bruxelles: Crédit communal de Belgique, ISBN 2-908388-32-4.