Pages Tagged with #epistemology

The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs, in the following sections:

• 1. Introduction
• 5.4. Out of Body Experiences, Soul Travel and Astral Projection
• 5.1. Hallucinations, Sensory Deprivation and Fasting: The Physiological Causes of Religious and Mystical Experiences
• 3. Subjectivism: We All See and Experience Things Differently

Experiences of God are Illusions, Derived from Malfunctioning Psychological Processes, in the following sections:

• 2. Hallucinations and Fasting
• 1. People Have False Experiences
• Top of page / intro

Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths, in the following sections:

• 6. The Prevention of Errors: Science and Skepticism
• 2.1. Perception is Influenced By Expectation: You Can't Always Trust Your Senses
• 4. The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind

Mass Belief and the False Consensus Effect: Everyone Believes It So It Must Be True!, in the following sections:

• 4. What is Science and the Scientific Method?
• Top of page / intro

Subjectivism and Phenomenology: Is Objective Truth Obtainable?, in the following sections:

• 6. Solipsism: Extreme Philosophical Epistemology
• Top of page / intro

Hallucinations, Sensory Deprivation and Fasting: The Physiological Causes of Religious and Mystical Experiences, in the following sections:

• 1. People Have False Experiences
• Top of page / intro

What is Science and the Scientific Method?, in the following sections:

• 1.5. Occam's Razor: Simplicity & Fewer Assumptions are Better
• Top of page / intro

Perception is Influenced By Expectation: You Can't Always Trust Your Senses, in the following sections:

• 4. Subjectivism and Phenomenology: Is Objective Truth Obtainable?
• Top of page / intro

What is Skepticism and Its Values?, in the following sections:

• 2. Think Slowly and Carefully
• Top of page / intro

The Crabtree Scale of Sources: Who Can We Trust?, in the following sections:

• 0. (10/10) Omniscience
• 0. (8/10) Peer-Reviewed Publications

Fundamentalism and Literalism in World Religions, in the following sections:

• 2. Why Question Beliefs? The Descent Into Uncompromising Fundamentalism
• 4.2. Arguing Against Literalism: It Is Impossible to Read Text Objectively

God's Methods of Communication: Universal Truth Versus Hebrew and Arabic: 3. Scripture, Religion and What God Wants Us to Know

Christian Moral Theory and Morality in Action: Biblical Morals and Social Disaster: 1. The Bible Does Not Provide Us With Any Moral Absolutes

Metaphysical Solipsism is Not True

Religion and Intelligence: 4. The Benefits and Side-Effects of Questioning Beliefs

Souls do not Exist: Evidence from Science & Philosophy Against Mind-Body Dualism: 4.3. Out of Body Experiences (OBEs)

Do We Need Religion to Have Good Morals?: 2.1. Subjectivism Prevents the Revealing of Absolute Morals

Why Question Beliefs? Dangers of Placing Ideas Beyond Doubt, and Advantages of Freethought

What Causes Religion and Superstitions?: 3.4. Hallucinations, Fasting and Sensory Deprivation

Free Speech and Defamation of Religion: 2. The Benefits of Questioning Ideas Outweigh Religious Sensitivities

To Turn a Hypothesis Into a Theory, It Must Be Tested: 1. What is Science and the Scientific Method?

Eckankar: The Religion of the Light and Sound of God, The Ancient Science of Soul Travel: 6. Soul Travel (Astral Projection)

Bible-Based Absolute Morals are Impossible Because All Scripture is Interpreted Subjectively

Out of Body Experiences (OBEs): Astral Projection or Soul Travelling?

Why are Our Memories Unreliable?: 5. Subjectivism and Phenomenology: Is Objective Truth Obtainable?

Moral Relativism: Absolute Morality is Not Possible: 1. An Introduction to Subjectivism

Scientific Theories Must Make Way for New Evidence: 2. What is Science and the Scientific Method?

The Christian Dark Ages of Europe: 2.4. Why Question Beliefs? Dangers of Placing Ideas Beyond Doubt, and Advantages of Freethought

Zen Buddhism: 3. An Anti-Fundamentalist Approach

The Scientific Method: Randomized Double-Blinded Trials: 1. What is Science and the Scientific Method?

Pseudoscience and Health: The World of Alternatives (to Truth): 3.5. The Enthusiasm of Amateurs: Freethought Without Skeptical Thinking Leads to Deception