The Epistemic Subject - Epistemology Video 32

This is video 32 in an introductory course on epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge. In this video, we look at the epistemic subject. It makes that epistemology, as a normative discipline, wants to describe not how you or I ought to think, but about how one ought to think. However, this approach carries dangers of oversimplification, which we explore in this video, thinking about such things as pragmatic encroachment, practical duties, the limited availability of knowledge, and -- especially in the next video -- standpoint epistemology.

Victor Gijsbers teaches philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. You can follow him on mastodon: @[email protected].

This video is part of a lecture series originally recorded for my students during the 2023/2024 spring semester. The entire playlist is here:    • Course in Epistemology