Well, I can tell you what has helped me so far in my own epistemic crisis:<p>The first two chapters of “Maps of Meaning” helped me separate truth-as-a-descriptive-framework vs truth-as-a-functional-framework, which was great for recovering from what postmodernism did to our sense of truth.<p>“Postmodernism for Rationalists”[1] really helped me define the chaos i felt about truth, and helped me put words and philosophers to different thoughts that I didn‘t know were there.<p>“States and Nomads”[2] helped me realize how all models are wrong, and their utility is ultimately contextual. It also introduced me to Jorge Luis Borges, who has written a lot of creative fiction around ideas like this.<p>A big reprieve came from this analysis of an Emily Dickinson poem on truth[3]. The part about “circumference” of truth really worked for me, I feel now that peace has to come from outside that circumference, not inside (which is what you might be struggling with?). Bertrand Russell spent his life trying to find a philosophical basis for religion and never found one, but this is as close as I've gotten.<p>For my happiness, I intersperse fiction (poetry, short stories) with more serious essays of philosophy. I think that resulting balance between art and treatise has been important for me in getting through this, but I haven't been on this for long.<p>If any of this has landed for you, we can swap sources and thoughts sometime, which might be a good therapy (both ways).<p>[1]:<a href="https://palegreendot.net/assets/2017-10-09/postmodernism_for_rationalists.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://palegreendot.net/assets/2017-10-09/postmodernism_for...</a>
[2]:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGaFcI2UNrI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGaFcI2UNrI</a>
[3]:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55kqNg88JqI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55kqNg88JqI</a>