Perhaps this is one subject upon which much has been written; after scribbling a few thoughts, I wanted to give up writing this piece, but just in time, I fortunately got reminded of Dostoevsky’s ...

It wasn't that long ago when, if you had an unanswered question, or didn't know the name of a song, the only option was total ignorance. In fact, ignorance was the normal way of life, and true ...

Synthese, Vol. 192, No. 11, Special Issue on ONTOLOGY & METHODOLOGY (November 2015), pp. 3647-3662 (16 pages) Deploying distinctions between ignorance of p and ignorance that p (is true), and between ...

Knowledge is power: this is an old motto of modern bourgeois philosophy, which was taken up by the 19th century European workers movement. Knowledge was once seen as something sacred. Men have always ...

Everyone can easily recognize to what extent knowledge, information, and knowledge in general are a pledge of autonomy and their absence an open door to dependence and submission in all its forms.

Although he died almost 30 years ago, Isaac Asimov, the author and biochemist, most aptly described the underpinnings of the socio-political status quo that persists in our nation today: “There is a ...

Growing up in the Dominican Republic, I rarely heard about climate change. I vaguely knew some information about the impact our world was suffering by the increased number of natural disasters around ...

Mary thinks her husband might be cheating but doesn’t check his emails. John has a lump in his armpit but doesn’t see a doctor. The tobacco companies work to suppress research on the effects of ...

Knowledge is power, and ignorance is bliss. Does this mean that the powerful can’t be happy? It just very well may. Let's face the facts: The world isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. Terrible acts are ...

Perseverance, in seeking to gain, the knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and perception of the gain that comes from knowledge of the truth: this is called knowledge. All that is contrary to this is ...