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Kwame Appiah, Jewish Empiricism, and the Guns Debate

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/socialjusticerav/item/kwame_appiah_jewish_empiricism_and_the_guns_debate

Philosophers have long debated how knowledge is acquired. Empiricists believe in the primacy of our senses for determining human knowledge. Rationalists believe that many of our most important ideas and knowledge can be attained by methods independent of our senses and experiences, such as by intuition and deduction.

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