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Course 01

Thinking About Thinking

An Introduction to Epistemology

The skeleton key. Every hard conversation about faith, doubt, history, or science comes down to epistemological assumptions people have never examined. Most Latter-day Saints operate with an implicit epistemology but have never thought about what that framework is, where it comes from, or how it compares to alternatives.

Episodes

  1. 01

    What Do You Actually Know?

    The problem of knowledge. Justified true belief and its limits. Epistemology isn't abstract — it's the operating system behind every opinion you hold.

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  2. 02

    Rationalism vs. Empiricism

    Descartes, Leibniz, and reason as a path to truth. Locke, Hume, and the argument that experience is everything. A genuine tension, not a resolved debate.

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  3. 03

    Kant's Synthesis & Its Legacy

    How Kant tried to resolve the rationalism/empiricism split. Categories of understanding. Kant's framework shapes how modern people think about knowledge limits without realizing it.

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  4. 04

    The Problem of Induction & Falsifiability

    Hume's problem. Popper's solution. What science actually claims to do vs. what people think it claims. Why "science says" is more complicated than it sounds.

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  5. 05

    Religious Epistemology: Faith & Reason

    Plantinga's reformed epistemology. Properly basic beliefs. Can spiritual experience count as evidence? The strongest philosophical case for and against experiential religious knowledge.

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  6. 06

    Testimony, Witness, and Spiritual Knowledge

    Epistemology of testimony (Reid, Coady). When is it rational to trust someone else's report? How does this apply to prophetic witness, scriptural testimony, and personal spiritual experience?

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  7. 07

    Cognitive Biases & Epistemic Humility

    Confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, Dunning-Kruger. Not a weapon against faith — a universal human problem. What does intellectual honesty actually require?

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  8. 08

    Building Your Epistemological Toolkit

    Synthesis. How to hold multiple epistemological tools at once. Practical frameworks for evaluating claims. Certainty vs. confidence. Comfort with ambiguity as a virtue.

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