I regularly get asked by friends and colleagues for recommendation of good resources to study epistemology. And whenever that happens, I make an internal (or external) "Eeehhh"pained sound.

For I can definitely point to books and papers and blog posts that inspired me, excited me, and shaped my world view on the topic. But there is no single resource that encapsulate my full model of this topic.

To be clear, I have tried to write that resource — my hard-drive is littered with such attempts. It's just that I always end up shelving them, because I don't have enough time, because I'm not sure exactly how to make it legible, because I haven't ironed out everything.

Well, the point of this new blog was to lower the activation energy of blog post writing, by simply sharing what I found exciting quickly. So let's try the simplest possible account I [...]

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Outline:

(01:00) The Roots of Epistemology

(03:01) The Goals of Epistemology

(04:20) Prediction: How To Know What Will Happen

(05:15) Intervention: How To Shift The Situation

(05:43) Construction: How To Make Things That Work

(06:06) The Three Parts of Epistemology

(07:01) The Regularities: What The World Offers (Or We Impose)

(11:34) The Cognition: What Our Brains Can Handle

(12:39) The Languages: How We Exploit Regularities

(14:21) Conclusion

The original text contained 9 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
August 31st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L9W9cCjcgZwDgKzZ7/my-model-of-epistemology

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“My Model of Epistemology ” by adamShimi

LessWrong (30+ Karma)