Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This book shows that, far from incorporating everything into an all-consuming necessity, Hegel's philosophy requires the novelty of unexpected contingencies to maintain its systematic pretensions.

The Forgotten Genius of Physics, a work on Marian Smoluchowski is a popular science book aimed at introducing the outstanding physicist and philosopher to a wider audience.

This is the first of two volumes on belief and counterfactuals.

This volume explores the many different meanings of the notion of the axiomatic method, offering an insightful historical and philosophical discussion about how these notions changed over the millennia.

This volume presents a dozen essays by prominent contemporary epistemologists providing a careful examination and critical evaluation of traditional epistemic internalism.

This is the first systematic student introduction to metametaphysics, examining the nature, foundations and methodology of metaphysical inquiry.

Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronto, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading Lonergan scholars.

This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems.

We ordinarily take it as obvious that we acquire knowledge of our world on the basis of sensory perception, and that such knowledge plays a central cognitive and practical role in our lives.

In Seeing Things, Robert Hudson assesses a common way of arguing about observation reports called "e;robustness reasoning.

This book brings together philosophers to investigate the nature and normativity of group disagreement.

For most of the twentieth century, philosophers have explored the nature and extent of our knowledge-especially our knowledge of the world grounded in sense-perceptual experience.

Many philosophy majors are shocked by the gap between the relative ease of lower-level philosophy courses and the difficulty of upper-division courses.

What would a body of literature, focusing on Southern childhoods, look like when epistemologically driven by the demands (social, cultural, economic, political) of the localities in which they are shaped and produced?

Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) is an original systematic thinker and representative of the Marburg School of Critical Idealism.

The book illustrates that the traditional philosophical concept of the "e;Universe"e;, the "e;World"e; has led to anomalies and paradoxes in the realm of knowledge.

This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A series/B series distinction, the author of this essay goes on to provide a non-paradoxical, tensed, phenomenologically-based account of the 'going on' or 'taking place' of events in time that escapes the paradoxes endemic to 'passage' as understood via the A series/B series distinction.

This edited volume brings together 18 state-of-the art essays on pluralism about truth and logic.

Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature.

Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way gives one prima facie justification for believing that they are that way) is a promising, and popular, internalist theory of epistemic justification.

How does the idea that perception must provide reasons for our empirical judgements constrain our conception of our perceptual experiences?

In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take.

The book offers a reflection on the nature, scope, and limits of knowledge that have been at the focus of the author's work over decades.

Embodied, Embedded, and Enactive Psychopathology presents a new way of thinking about mental disorder that is holistic yet critically minded, biologically plausible yet value-inclusive, and scientific yet deeply compassionate.

David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature and Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding are amongst the most widely-studies texts on philosophy.

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Die leitende Frage im vorliegenden Buch lautet: Was ist das Selbstbewusstsein bei Kant?

In der Geschichte der Philosophie waren Bilder oft dem Verdacht des Lügens ausgesetzt.

Scientific realism is at the core of the contemporary philosophical debate on science.

This book develops a novel account of assertion in terms of its function of sharing knowledge.

Duncan Pritchard offers an original defence of epistemological disjunctivism.

This book illustrates the value of the cross-fertilisation of literary criticism with philosophy, something Leavis advocated in his later writings.

French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) shifted the terrain of western philosophy when he identified the body, rather than consciousness, as the primary site of our meaningful engagement with the world.

This collection showcases the most influential published essays by philosopher Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski.

Hume's Skeptical Crisis is a textual study of the shifts in perspective that unfold as Hume attempts to produce a complete science of human nature.

This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics.