Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This book has been a long time in the making.

This volume offers a wide range of both reconstructions of Nikolai Vasiliev's original logical ideas and their implementations in the modern logic and philosophy.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023Caught between the history of exclusion and the reality of the world philosophies approach, this is an introduction to African philosophy unlike any other.

This title, first published in 1975, contains two complimentary studies by Paul Q.

Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules.

Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a major new biennial volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field.

David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926-13 May 2014) has been one of the most influential contemporary metaphysicians working in the analytic tradition and surely the greatest 20th century Australian philosopher.

Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone provides a critical examination of the Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion who claim that the word 'God' cannot be understood as referring to a metaphysical being who may or may not exist.

This volume brings Cassirer's work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy.

Arthur Schopenhauer verband das transzendentalphilosophische Erbe Kants gezielt mit phänomenologischen, existenzphilosophischen und hermeneutischen Elementen.

In An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Bertrand Russell returns to philosophy after a long period of writing about education, religion and marriage.

Prejudice influences people's thoughts and behaviors in many ways; it can lead people to underestimate others' credibility, to read anger or hysteria into their words, or to expect knowledge and truth to 'sound' a certain way-or to come from a certain type of person.

This volume collects the best and most influential essays that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years on topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language.

The Importance of Being Rational systematically defends a novel reasons-based account of rationality.

Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications.

If there has been some modest advance, since Karl Popper's death in 1994, in the general understanding of his critical rationalist theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, there is still widespread resistance both to it and to the recognition of the magnitude of his contribution.

In diesem Büchlein geht es darum, Mitmenschen, die in große seelische oder auch körperliche Not geraten sind, eine Perspektive aufzuzeigen, mittels derer sie diese Not in eine große Hoffnung auf ein von unbeschreiblicher Freude erfülltes Leben verwandeln können.

Stereotypes sometimes lead us to make poor judgements of other people, but they also have the potential to facilitate quick, efficient, and accurate judgements.

"e;Di Iorio offers a new approach to Hayek's Sensory Order, linking neuroscience to the old Verstehen tradition and to contemporary theories of self-organizing systems; this should be on the reading list of everyone who is interested in Hayek's thought.

According to many commentators, Davidson's earlier work on philosophy of action and truth-theoretic semantics is the basis for his reputation, and his later forays into broader metaphysical and epistemological issues, and eventually into what became known as the triangulation argument, are much less successful.

The epistemology and the phenomenology of perception are closely related insofar as both depend on experiences of self-evident objectivity--experiences in which the objectivity of a state of affairs is evident from within our experience of that state of affairs.

This collection of new essays on the systematic thought and intellectual legacy of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) comes at a time when Sellars's influence on contemporary debates about mind, meaning, knowledge, and metaphysics has never been greater.

While orthodox religion by its very nature is conservative, philosophy at its best is inherently radical.

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The Oxford Handbook of Hegel is a comprehensive guide to Hegel's philosophy, from his first published writings to his final lectures.

This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism.

Das Interesse der Arbeit gilt den skeptischen Denk- und Ausdrucksformen, mit denen Hegel und Kierkegaard den Anspruch auf absolute Wahrheit verbinden.

The central task of phenomenology is to investigate the nature of consciousness and its relations to objects of various types.

This book tackles the difficult task of defending relativism in the age of science.

Dass alles eine Frage der Perspektive sei, scheint selbst kaum mehr eine Frage der Perspektive zu sein.

Using COVID-19 as a base, this groundbreaking book brings together several renowned scholars to explore the concept of crisis, and how this global event has shaped the discipline of psychology.

Philosophy for AS and A Level is an accessible textbook for the new 2017 AQA Philosophy syllabus.

What is the nature of mathematical knowledge?

The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil.

This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist.

Kevin Scharp proposes an original theory of the nature and logic of truth on which truth is an inconsistent concept that should be replaced for certain theoretical purposes.

This collection brings together new papers addressing the philosophical challenges that the concept of a Devil presents, bringing philosophical rigor to treatments of the Devil.

Desires matter.

This book sets out to convey the breadth of philosophical interest in life and death during the early modern period.

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.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023Caught between the history of exclusion and the reality of the world philosophies approach, this is an introduction to African philosophy unlike any other.

This innovative book offers a multidimensional exploration of the epistemological foundations of psychiatry and its major disorders.

The mind is directed upon the world.