Think Independently

Think Independently by Chauncey Riddle PhD 6x9 Softcover book 169 pages; $16.95 Philosophy and philosophizing in our modern times resolve down to asking and answering fundamental questions which cannot be resolved by scientific or mathematical means. The fundamental questions are: 1. How do we humans know? This question gives rise to the philosophical area of epistemology, the study of knowing. We will treat first personal knowledge, that which we know for ourselves by ourselves. Then we will treat social knowledge, the areas of science and history, wherein the social acceptance of ideas by a peer group is important to though not always necessary to acceptance of the ideas as legitimate science or history. 2. What are the nature and limits of science? Examination of science itself is not something which can be accomplished by a science; thus it falls to philosophy to examine science. We will pursue an understanding of science as it occurs in our times as part of this inquiry into p