Mind and Knowledge

How do we know anything at all, and what is the mind that knows it? Follow the argument from Plato's definition of knowledge through Descartes' doubt, the empiricists, Kant's revolution and the pragmatists to Wittgenstein's limits of language.

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   TheaetetusPlato · 2 hrs · ▶ ListenWhat is knowledge? Three answers, all tested and found wanting.
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   Meditations on First PhilosophyRené Descartes · 2 hrs · ▶ ListenDoubt everything, and find what survives: I think, therefore I am.
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   An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingDavid Hume · 4 hrs · ▶ ListenExperience, habit and the problem of causation.
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   Principles of Human Knowledge and Three DialoguesGeorge Berkeley · 5 hrs · ▶ ListenTo be is to be perceived: idealism argued from experience.
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   Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsImmanuel Kant · 3 hrs · ▶ ListenKant's own short introduction to how knowledge is possible.
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   PragmatismWilliam James · 4 hrs · ▶ ListenTruth as what works: the pragmatist method.
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   Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusLudwig Wittgenstein · 1.5 hrs · ▶ ListenThe limits of language are the limits of my world.