How modern philosophy frames knowledge

Modern philosophy is philosophy developed in the modern era and associated with modernity, not a specific doctrine or school. How does it frame knowledge, and what can you understand about the ways people explain what they can know? The lessons consider how reason, experience, and the structure of experience shape accounts of knowledge.

2 articles, 1 book · about 56 min of reading and viewing

The reading path

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   Kant, Immanuel: Metaphysics | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy · iep.utm.edu · 45 min read

   In modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant argues that knowledge is constrained to mathematics and the science of the natural, empirical world. He argues that the mind actively constitutes features of experience, limiting access to the empirical realm of space and time.

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   modern philosophy · Wikipedia · 11 min read

   Descartes builds knowledge back up from what he can know for certain, finding that some ideas could only have originated from God and proving that God exists. He argues that God would not allow systematic deception, vindicating ordinary science and reasoning as fallible but not false. Phenomenology, a modern philosophical movement, studies the structure of experience. Edmund Husserl founded it in the early years of the 20th century, and followers at the University of Göttingen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany expanded upon it.

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   The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained · Bookshop.org

   The Philosophy Book by DK presents short biographies of over a hundred philosophers, explains their profound questions in simple terms, and uses visual guides to show how ideas progress.

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