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Feb 2021
- Parsing Science
- Philosophy
- philosophy, The Witness, video game, videogame, Jonathan Blow, popular culture, pop culture, epistemology, Socrates, Plato, Sophists, knowledge acquisition, Thomas Kuhn, paradigms, objective knowledge, constructivism, epistemological relativism, realism, scientific realism, nondualism, Hilary Putnam, theory of knowledge, epiphany, aporia
What can a video game teach us about our epistemic philosophy? In episode 93, Luke Cuddy from Southwestern College’s philosophy program talks with us about the video game The Witness, which presents players with a multitude of increasingly sophisticated and frustrating puzzles that perhaps result fr...