But there is another problem lurking in the tripartite theory of knowledge. In 1963, Edmund Gettier published a two-and-a-half page paper showing that it is possible to hold a justified true belief ...

I am always fascinated about how much great information there is online. I'm also a bit miffed at how much that information can hold back patients. When you have a chronic illness, there is the period ...

Economist Friedrich Hayek explained in 1945 why centrally controlled “command economies” were doomed to waste, inefficiency, and collapse: Insufficient knowledge. He won a Nobel Prize. But it turns ...

We all remember our school days when teachers used to bombard us with proverbs which underlined the idea that knowledge is power. Some back-benchers scoffed at them while the nerds embraced the latter ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its sixth month, Illinoisians are being put to difficult choices about what risks are acceptable. Given the large numbers of us and our different personal situations ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

For a lot of scientific topics, there's a big gap between what scientists understand and what the public thinks it knows. For a number of these topics—climate change and evolution are prominent ...

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s own ignorance. —Confucius What if we are being radically deceived? What if I am no more than a brain kept alive in a vat and fed with stimuli by a mad ...