Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 For Beginners

Eliezer Yudkowsky's bottom-up guide to epistemology. Includes practical applications and puzzling meditations.

Intro

• The Useful Idea of Truth
• Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms
• Minor Post - Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
• Minor Post - Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational

Causality/Physics

• The Fabric of Real Things
• Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
• Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
• Causal Reference
• Causal Universes

Logic/Mathematics

• Proofs, Implications, and Models
• Logical Pinpointing
• Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
• Gödel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems
• Second-Order Logic: The Controversy

Mixed Reference

• Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
• By Which It May Be Judged