Epistemology
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Epistemology
Episode 83: Standpoint Epistemology with Briana Toole — Overthink podcast
overthinkpodcast.comTo have a "standpoint" means to be able to not only experience the harms of a social or political system, but to recognize the ways in which that system interacts with one's identity. While "lived experience" can be personal and reasonably unreflective, standpoint epistemology is a position of knowing "earned" through intentional analysis.
If I were going to study psychic shit, my money would be on theta providing access to a buffet of non-local information. Like weird, action-at-a-distance, outside of conventional time and space info. This is a different kind of knowledge, and you can’t approach it like regular, daylight, yes-no questions, because it’s not structured that way.
Kristin Posehn • Psychic Shit Happens All The Time
EP.09 Maggie Appleton on digital gardening by Reverb by Sane
anchor.fmHow could gaining knowledge amount to anything other than discovering what was already there? How could the truth of a statement or a theory be anything but its correspondence to facts that were fixed before we started investigating them?
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a... See more
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a... See more
Céline Henne • Frameworks
Here’s the deal with theta: it’s a different kind of knowing than beta. Beta is a crisp, oh-I-just-cogitated-this-thought. But experience in theta is knowing. Theta hits you in a total, murky, deep-but-diffuse way.
Kristin Posehn • Psychic Shit Happens All The Time
