Episodes
- 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.
Coming soon - 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.
Coming soon - 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.
Coming soon - 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.
Coming soon - 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.
Coming soon - 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?
Coming soon - 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?
Coming soon - 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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