About a decade ago, I talked with my niece and shared this conundrum: “How do you know that the red I see is the red you see?” To this day, I remember her reaction. Her eyes widened, and she said, ...

The history of socialism is the history of failure—and so is the history of capitalism, but in a different sense. For the history of socialism is one of fundamental failure, a failure to provide ...

Epistemological approaches in journalism examine how news professionals generate, validate and communicate knowledge. Central questions concern the nature of journalistic truth, the criteria by which ...

In the jargon of academia, the study of what we can know, and how we can know it, is called “epistemology.” During the 1980s, philosopher Richard Rorty declared it dead and bid it good riddance. To ...

to make. By all rights, it should get me fired. For the last 25 years, in my writing, I have been using the adjectives “epistemological” and “ontological” interchangeably and without actually knowing ...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of George Rouault, and Boston College's McMullen Museum is hosting an exhibit of Rouault's finest works. The exhibit highlights the many outward ...

About a decade ago, I talked with my niece and shared this conundrum: “How do you know that the red I see is the red you see?” To this day, I remember her reaction. Her eyes widened, and she said, ...