Foundations
· Epistemology Under Cross-Examination ·

1 · Choose a Belief to Interrogate

2 · The Tribunal

Descartes · Radical Doubt
Can this belief survive the demon?

Suppose an evil demon deceives you about everything. Strip away every belief that could conceivably be false. Does yours remain?

Hume · Reason or Habit
Is this reasoned, or merely customary?

No amount of past experience logically entails the next case. Is your belief grounded in demonstrative reason — or in the soft pressure of habit?

Kant · Precondition
Is this a condition of having experience at all?

Perhaps this belief isn't concluded from experience but presupposed by it — a transcendental scaffold without which no experience would be coherent.

3 · Your Defense

Pick a belief above to begin defending it.

4 · Your Dossier

No inquiries yet. The unexamined belief is not worth holding.