Open AccessOriginal Facticity and the Incompleteness of Knowledge
Author(s) -
Modesto Manuel Gómez Alonso
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
logos and episteme
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2069-3052
pISSN - 2069-0533
DOI - 10.5840/logos-episteme202011437
Subject(s) - facticity , situated , conviction , skepticism , epistemology , consciousness , contingency , empiricism , openness to experience , sociology , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , law
This article critically explores Nuno Venturinha’s project of capturing how we are situated in reality, a project grounded in the conviction that the closure of knowledge and the openness of experience are compatible. To this end, I will explore how an approach complementary to Venturinha’s method—one which regards the passive and the active in knowledge as rooted in a single, underlying original form of consciousness—would deal with the issue of justifying contingency without falling into either scepticism or empiricism.