Are subsurface ocean worlds Plato’s cave?

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Are subsurface ocean worlds Plato’s cave?

The allegory of the cave is Plato’s great thought experiment in metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, and subsequent philosophy has produced countless variations on Plato’s theme, which is the distinction between appearance and reality. Reading Plato against the grain, I take the allegory of the cave from a naturalistic perspective and explore how certain environments approximate or fail to approximate the dilemma of Plato’s cave, and what this entails for our knowledge of the universe we inhabit.

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