Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

For 35 years, the critical and creative writings of Robert E.

Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S.

This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc- tive and distinguished school of philosophy of science at Chelsea College, University of London.

A collection of the influential ethical writings of medieval philosopher William of Ockham, published in English for the first time.

Do moral facts exist?

Biologists, climate scientists, and economists all rely on models to move their work forward.

The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies written for formal presentation and informal discussion with colleagues.

Reason and Ethics defends the theoretical claim that all values are subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be conducted fruitfully in full awareness of this.

What is free will?

Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy.

This book explores the opportunities and epistemological and structural challenges facing higher education in postcolonial South Africa and argues for a fundamental transformation to meet the needs of the 21st century.

What we believe and what we do not believe has a great impact on what we do and fail to do.

At the intersection of epistemology, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of science, this exciting new book examines the epistemic limits of empirical science.

Das Imaginäre widersetzt sich – wie auch immer man es zu definieren versucht – festen, geschichtlich und kontextuell übergreifenden Bestimmungen; und doch ist die philosophische (und später dann die ästhetische und anthropologische) Anstrengung zur Klärung der Funktionsweise jener Apparatur, die man 'phantasia', 'imaginatio' oder Einbildungskraft genannt hat, in der abendländischen Kultur immer außerordentlich prägnant gewesen.

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection.

Shows how Joyce''s narrative styles and his protagonists'' perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.

This book is an exploration of the fundamental metaphysical problems of substance, space and time.

Aristoteles hat eine allgemeine, d.

Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

Wisdom and Philosophy: Contemporary and Comparative Approaches questions the nature of the relationship between wisdom and philosophy from an intercultural perspective.

All contentious moral issues--from gay marriage to abortion and affirmative action--raise difficult questions about the justification of moral beliefs.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Rationale Argumentation" verfügbar.

In recent years many influential philosophers have advocated that philosophy is an a priori science.

Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality?

We live in a space, we get about in it.

A new approach to Hume''s problem of induction that justifies the optimality of induction at the level of meta-induction.

A wide-ranging study of the nature of perception, discussing touch, hearing and vision, and bringing together analytic and continental approaches.

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the 'self' and narrativity.

In recent decades, many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory.

Although sociology is present as a discipline or as a social practice in most countries in the world, its future as a not-only Western social science has hardly been addressed before.

Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self.

A analysis of Herder''s views on language, reason, morality, race and religion, as factors that define the human species.

Textbooks and other popular venues commonly present science as a progressive "e;brick-by-brick"e; accumulation of knowledge and facts.

The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology brings together philosophers, cognitive scientists, developmental and evolutionary psychologists, animal ethologists, intellectual historians, and educators to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the prospects for moral knowledge ever assembled in print.

Due to the unprecedented interest which the announcement of the topic of epistemology evoked from contributors, two annual volumes will be devoted to it.

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human rights?

Undoubtedly, emotions sometimes thwart our epistemic endeavours.

Provides a minimal metaphysics for scientific practice, yielding new accounts of lawhood, causation and reduction.

This book articulates the relationships involving hermeneutics and scriptural politics in the complex fields of religious freedom and human rights, with particular focus on women and minorities in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.