Self-knowledge - a person's knowledge of their own thoughts, character, and psychological states - has long been a central focus of philosophical enquiry.
In focusing on the systematic deduction of the categories from a principle, Schulting takes up anew the controversial project of the eminent German Kant scholar Klaus Reich, whose monograph "e;The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments"e; made the case that the logical functions of judgement can all be derived from the objective unity of apperception and can be shown to link up with one another systematically.
This book challenges the standard view that modern hermeneutics begins with Friedrich Ast and Friedrich Schleiermacher, arguing instead that it is the dialectic of reflective and teleological reason in Kant's Critique of Judgment that provides the actual proto-hermeneutic foundation.
Dogma's Primrose Path addresses how the perpetual presence of ignorance, poverty, and war throughout the world is accepted by most people as an inevitable consequence of human life given man's incurably evil, greedy, and violent nature.
According to a long tradition in philosophy of science, a clear cut distinction can be traced between a context of discovery and a context of justification.
At least since Locke, philosophers and psychologists have usually held that concepts arise out of sensory perceptions, thoughts are built from concepts, and language enables speakers to convey their thoughts to hearers.
Our words and ideas refer to objects and properties in the external world; this phenomenon is central to thought, language, communication, and science.
Aus Vorlesungen an der Pariser Sorbonne hervorgegangen, handelt dieses Buch zur Epistemologie und zur Wissenschafts- und Philosophiegeschichte seit Kant vom Sprechen über die Natur, vom Pluralismus und von der Relativität von Überzeugungen und Wahrheiten.
In each of Plato's "e;dialogues of definition"e; (Euthyphro, Laches, Meno, Charmides, Lysis, Republic I, Hippias Major), Socrates motivates philosophical discussion by posing a question of the form "e;What is F-ness?
These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists.
In Russell's Theory of Perception, Sajahan Miah re-examines and evaluates the development of Russell's concept of perception and the relation of perception to our knowledge of the external world.
Gorgias's Thought: An Epistemological Reading is the first monograph published in English entirely devoted to Gorgias's epistemological thought and provides a new perspective on Gorgias's thought more broadly.
This volume is the first sustained examination of epistemic situationism: the clash between virtue epistemology and the situationist hypothesis inspired by research in empirical psychology.
Focusing on the interdependence between human, animal, and machine, posthumanism redefines the meaning of the human being previously assumed in knowledge production.
Gabriel Seailles remarked that Lachelier had the happy for- tune "e;of exercising a profound and decisive influence upon all who heard him, yet without acquiring perhaps a single disciple in the narrow sense of the word.
This is the third volume in Alvin Plantinga's trilogy on the notion of warrant, which he defines as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief.
Diese Ausgabe der Kategorienlehre Eduard von Hartmanns vereint alle drei Bände, die 1923 von Fritz Kern unter Beachtung der Verfasserhandschrift herausgegeben wurden.
The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness.
