Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

What is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves, such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements we do not cause personally, such as the contraction of the heart?

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.

This book presents a new view of organizations which has important implications for the theory, methods and practice of management.

This book examines the relationship between freedom and true knowledge, which is a central part of the hotly debated issue of human freedom.

In this book, internationally recognized experts in philosophy of science, computer science, and modeling and simulation are contributing to the discussion on how ontology, epistemology, and teleology will contribute to enable the next generation of intelligent modeling and simulation applications.

Slavoj Zizek is one of today's leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch.

This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.

This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics.

The Structures of Practical Knowledge investigates the nature of practical knowledge - why, how, when and by whom it is codified, and once codified, how this knowledge is structured.

During the past two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have occupied center stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.

This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth.

Disjunctivism has attracted considerable philosophical attention in recent years: it has been the source of a lively and extended debate spanning the philosophy of perception, epistemology, and the philosophy of action.

Sounds and Perception is a collection of original essays on auditory perception and the nature of sounds - an emerging area of interest in the philosophy of mind and perception, and in the metaphysics of sensible qualities.

Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns logic, language, and reality topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career.

Over the past three decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has become one of the most celebrated contemporary philosophers.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

This edited volume examines the decolonization of worldviews and ways of knowing in education and educational policy.

Trust is pervasive in our lives.

Medieval debates over "e;divine creation"e; are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "e;Intelligent Design"e; Creationists and Evolutionists.

What is truth?

As political discourse had been saturated with the ideas of "e;post-truth"e;, "e;fake news"e;, "e;epistemic bubbles"e;, and "e;truth decay"e;, it was no surprise that in 2017 The New Scientist declared: "e;Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come.

This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession.

The controversy over Jacques Derrida's legacy is one of the most effective engines driving the contemporary debate, far beyond the bounds of philosophy.

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility.

The book gathers several contributions by historians of physics, philosophers of science and scientists as new essays in the history of physics ranging across the entire field, related in most instances to the works of Salvo D'Agostino (1921-2020), one of the field's most prominent scholars since the second half of the past century.

Sounds and Perception is a collection of original essays on auditory perception and the nature of sounds - an emerging area of interest in the philosophy of mind and perception, and in the metaphysics of sensible qualities.

In this bold work, of broad scope and rich erudition, Richard Miller sets out to reorient the philosophy of science.

Why people are not as gullible as we thinkNot Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe-and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions.

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This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings.

Fully updated with new topics covering the latest developments and debates, the second edition of this highly influential text retains its unique combination of accessibility and originality.

In this volume the philosophy of perception and observation is discussed by leading philosophers with implications in the philosophy of mind, in epistemology, and in philosophy of science.

One of the central areas of concern in late twentieth-century philosophy is the debate between Realism and anti-Realism.

In 1986, the emergence of a novel brain disease in British cattle presented a unique challenge to scientists.

Wittgenstein's aphoristic style holds great charm, but also a great danger: the reader is apt to glean too much from a single fragment and too little from the fragments as a whole.

How can beliefs, which are immaterial, be about things?

This book applies the general theory of critical rationalism in order to develop a new sociology of the open society, in general, and a new analysis of the transition from a closed society to an open society in particular.

When and why is it right to kill?

Given that Enlightenment rationality developed in Europe as European nations aggressively claimed other parts of the world for their own enrichment, scholars have made rationality the subject of postcolonial critique, questioning its universality and objectivity.

This book proposes a different perspective on actual queries within the field of ontology.

Working in the tradition of analytic philosophy, Alexander Brown argues that many different forms of political communication (or anti-communication) that often infuriate the public can also be ethically or morally objectionable.

The Scope of the Project The concept of holism is at the centre of far-reaching changes in various areas of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century.