Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

The surge of philosophical interest in episodic memory has brought to light a number of controversial questions about this form of memory that have only recently begun to be addressed in detail.

This is a philosophical book about the idea of human freedom in the context of Chinese philosophy on truth, the good, and beauty.

Emile Meyerson's writings on the philosophy of science are a rich source of ideas and information concerning many philosophical and historical aspects of the development of modem science.

Shifty Speech and Independent Thought is a manifesto for epistemic independence: the independence of good thinking from practical considerations.

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This book offers a compelling examination of our moral and epistemic obligations to be reasonable people who seek to understand the social reality of those who are different from us.

The most comprehensive coverage of the core content Being Human, this course book will help learners grasp complex philosophical ideas and develop the crucial thinking skills.

Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world.

Epistemic Evaluation aims to explore and apply a particular methodology in epistemology.

This book examines the development of the natural condition of mankind throughout Hobbes''s works and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration.

Peter Unger's provocative new book poses a serious challenge to contemporary analytic philosophy, arguing that to its detriment it focuses the predominance of its energy on "e;empty ideas.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839--1914) has often been referred to as one of the most important North American philosophers, but the real extent of his philosophical importance is only now beginning to emerge.

As a follow-up to Towards a Just Curriculum Theory and Curriculum Epistemicide , thisvolume illuminates the challenges and contradictions which have preventedcritical curriculum theory from establishing itself as an alternative to dominantWestern Eurocentric epistemologies.

The acclaimed scholars contributing to this volume place under scrutiny a fascinating alternative proposal for a pathway to religious tolerance - that serious consideration of religious diversity tends to reveal the weakness of support many have for their religious commitments, and the humility produced tends to result in religious tolerance.

In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether - and how - we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds.

While a short work of only eight verses and a three-page autocommentary, the Investigation of the Percept has inspired epistemologists for centuries and has had a wide-ranging impact in India, Tibet, and China.

This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature.

This book presents a collection of interrelated essays that analyze the theoretical foundations of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology written by one of the pioneers in this field of research: Dr.

Given the history of concepts like meaning, time, language, and discourse, any serious attempt to understand them must be interdisciplinary; so MEANING, LANGUAGE, AND TIME draws on a wide range of important work in the history of philosophy, rhetoric, and composition.

First published in 1958, this book focuses on the meaning, interpretation, and use of the verb 'to know'.

Originally published in 1972, Medieval Logic and Metaphysics shows how formal logic can be used in the clarification of philosophical problems.

This work investigates the early encounters of French philosophers and religious thinkers with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl.

Ours is the age of the picture.

This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles.

Funktion und Bedeutung des Opus postumum für die Philosophie Kants sind in der Forschungsliteratur umstritten.

This volume reprints eight of Anil Gupta's essays, some with additional material.

This book examines the concept of civility and the conditions of civil disagreement in politics and education.

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Checking is a very common concept for describing a subject's epistemic goals and actions.

Originally published in 1973.

This book explains how gossip contributes to knowledge.

A central conclusion developed and defended throughout the book is that epistemic autonomy is necessary for knowledge (both knowledge-that and knowledge-how) and in ways that epistemologists have not yet fully appreciated.

What is the source of logical and mathematical truth?

Die in diesem Band zusammengestellten Texte Schlicks aus den Zwanziger- und Dreißigerjahren vermitteln vor dem Hintergrund der Einstein'schen Relativitätsrevolution das Bild einer Zeit des radikalen Umbruchs und der Entstehung des Neuen in der Physik.

This book assesses and defends Kant's Critical epistemology, and the rich yet neglected resources it provides for understanding and resolving fundamental issues regarding human experience, perceptual judgment, empirical knowledge and cognitive sciences.

This volume presents a theoretical defense of the potential of ordinary individuals to construct values and through them to become self-empowering, responsible participants in a democratic community.

This volume presents a selection of papers from the Poincare Project of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, bringing together an international group of scholars with new assessments of Henri Poincare's philosophy of science-both its historical impact on the foundations of science and mathematics, and its relevance to contemporary philosophical inquiry.

Philosophers have always recognized the value of reason, but the process of reasoning itself has only recently begun to emerge as a philosophical topic in its own right.

Reflections on the metaphysics and epistemology of classification from a distinguished group of philosophers.

This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophical study of skepticism, a central and long-standing subject in philosophy.

This book is multi- and interdisciplinary in both scope and content.

The transcendental turn of Husserl's phenomenology has challenged philosophers and scholars from the beginning.

Originally published in 1990.

The idea that humans are by nature social and political animals can be traced back to Aristotle.