Tag: humility

So everyone is a COVID expert now huh? Right. Where is the epistemic humility?

Just type ‘Covid’ in the search bar and see what shows up for this year, in particular August and September. There are several writers commenting on the return of the pandemic. These include artists, actors, models, writers and self-identified cat-ladies. Their claim is of course a...

Hume’s humility: coming to terms with the limits of what we can know

Arecent visit to Edinburgh offered an opportunity to make a micro pilgrimage to sites associated with the 18th century philosopher David Hume, whose empiricist manifesto A Treatise of Human Nature was the first work on my reading list during my first year at university. (What else would on...