Gary Schouborg
I specialize in moral philosophy and philosophical psychology driven by a pragmatic epistemology based on the principle: suppose innocence, not guilt (SING). Knowledge is action-oriented, so that we justify our beliefs only when there are good reasons to doubt their truth. We could not get out of bed in the morning if we had to justify our beliefs before acting.
Address: Walnut Creek, California, United States
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with everyday thinking and with other scientific specialities in
beginning inevitably with the inquiring subject's own conscious
experiencing. This does not lead to solipsism, because the hypothesis
of an independently existing world is the best hypothesis to explain
the facts of subjective experience. SOC is unique among all ways of
knowing in needing to be fully critical, not simply as academic
philosophy is by conceptualizing the structure of conscious inquiry,
but by being reflectively aware of consciousness as such, the womb
from which inquiry is born. Therefore, in SOC the scientist and the
philosopher merge. Initially, this reflective awareness means being
open to experiencing non-naturalistic as well as naturalistic claims,
altered states of consciousness as well as ordinary ones. It is an
empirical issue, not to be decided a priori by some empiricist
commitment, whether such non-naturalistic claims and altered states
actually exist and what their relevance is to understanding
consciousness