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What does it mean to know something? Can we have confidence in our knowledge? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. We are inquisitive creatures by nature, and the unending quest for truth leads us to raise difficult questions about the quest itself. What are the conditions, sources, and limits of our knowledge? Do our beliefs need to be rationally justified? Can we have certainty? In this primer on epistemology, James Dew and Mark Foreman guide readers through this discipline in philosophy.

Being a man is hard, but being a black man in America, is going out into a world where the odds are purposely stacked against you, and you’re still expected to supply success for a multitude of people. Every choice we make, from the way we express our style, to the way we conduct ourselves, are calculated risks. What can seem like a simple feature or subtle characteristic can be the thing that deters our progress. The Conscious of a Blk Man Podcast is an open conversation, where your host Damian Foreman and co-host Christopher Shelvin, will dig beneath the surface and uncover various factors...

"The unexamined life is not worth living," according to Socrates, but pursuing the examined life strikes many as daunting, unappealing and even unnecessary. Is philosophy important? Why do I need philosophy if I have the Bible? Aren't philosophers simply engaged in meaningless disputes that are irrelevant to everyday life? Mark Foreman addresses these and other questions in this "prelude" to the subject. Unlike a full introduction to philosophy, this book is a preliminary discussion that dispels misunderstandings and explains the rationale for engaging in philosophical reasoning.