Essays on Epistemology

B. C. Henderson, A. Masli, V. J. Richardson, and J. M. Sanchez take a closer look at the relationship between layoffs and the compensation of the chief executive officer (CEO). Through quantitative research they discover that as the number of layoffs increase, CEOs’ bonus compensation decreases and their equity-based compensation increases (2010). Also in their…

Henry David Thoreau, the author of this piece, lived in the mid-1800s. Throughout his life, Thoreau was an author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. The Stanford Dictionary defines transcendentalism as a religious and philosophical movement that focused on the belief that everyone has inherent goodness; however, society…

I was told over and over again by my friends and family after graduating high school, “these are going to be the best years of your life.” I figured they were completely right because college is a place where you find your true identity and realize what your able to do. First key of success…

I believe that the meaning of life is to explore in order to find our truths and being able to learn from them. As we continue to live, we tend to long for the truth as we are all curious of our lives and the world around it. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, he…

The statement “I think. therefore I am” lays the basis for Rene Descartes’ statement in the Meditations. To understand this look. one must set themselves in Descartes’ topographic point. He started off seeking to calculate what he can cognize with certainty. He examined a big organic structure of cognition and figured out that he can…

[pic][pic] [pic] [pic][pic] Herbert Spencer | | |Biography: Herbert Spencer | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, scientist, engineer, and political economist. In his day his works were important in popularizing the concept of evolution and played an important part in the development of economics, political science, biology, and philosophy. Herbert Spencer was born…

Total Recall, a business where anyone can experience his or her dream vacation, attempted to alter one’s memory in order for he or she to experience the “perfect vacation”. Squad hears about the opportunity to experience what he has been dreaming about, which was going to mars as a secret agent. Why would anyone want…

Introduction Mary Whiton Calkins, is best known for two things: going the first adult female president of The American Psychological Association and being denied her doctor’s degree from Harvard. However, these two facets merely make up a little part of what she accomplished in her life. Her full life was dedicated to her work, particularly…

Honesty We are thinking critically when we recognize emotional impulses, selfish dives, nefarious purposes, or other modes of self-deception. Open-mindedness evaluate all reasonTABLE inferences consider a variety of possible viewpoints or perspectives, remain open to alternative interpretations accept a new explanation, model, or paradigm because it explains the evidence better, is simpler, or has fewer…

Must the author be dead to make way for the birth of the reader? In his essay “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes asserts that the author is dead because he/she is no longer a part of the deep structure in a particular text. To him, the author does not create meaning in the…