Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Nicholas Rescher stands as a major figure in American Philosophy today.

In the recent history of philosophy few works have appeared which favorably portray Idealism as a plausible philosophical view of the world.

Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate.

The notions of mental representation and intentionality are central to contemporary philosophy of mind and it is usually assumed that these notions, if not originated, at least were made essential to the philosophy of mind by Descartes in the seventeenth century.

The theory of knowledge, or epistemology, is often regarded as a dry topic that bears little relation to actual knowledge practices.

On the occasion of bis sixtieth birthday, we dedicate this volume to Jan Wo- leriski-s-our teacher, our colleague, our friend.

This collection provides the first in-depth introduction to the theory of the religious imagination put forward by renowned philosopher Douglas Hedley, from his earliest essays to his principal writings.

This book provides a new all-round perspective on the life and work of Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) as a philosopher, historian, and sociologist.

While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail.

This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive character of skepticism.

The International Research library of Philosophy collects in book form a wide range of important and influential essays in philosophy, drawn predominantly from English language journals.

Erkenntnis wird weitgehend mit propositionalem Wissen gleichgesetzt und damit am Begriff der begründeten wahren Aussage festgemacht.

Various topics surrounding death, the possibilities of after life, and materialist accounts of resurrection are the focus of this Element.

This book examines how the semantics and metaphysics of disagreement affect the epistemology of disagreement.

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Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away?

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.

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

This work presents probability theory as a logic of confidences, and it critically explores a Bayesian epistemology of scientific reasoning.

How do you define good mental health?

Virtues have become a valuable and relevant resource for understanding modern science and technology.

Emotions, Values, and the Law brings together ten of John Deigh's essays written over the past fifteen years.

The Evolution of the Private Language Argument presents a continuous view of modern analytical philosophy by telling the history of one of its central strands.

All justified beliefs ultimately rest on attitudes that are immediately justified.

This book is devoted to Quine and Davidson.

Radical skepticism endorses the extreme claim that large swaths of our ordinary beliefs, such as those produced by perception or memory, are irrational.

One of the hardest problems in the history of Western philosophy has been to explain whether and how experience can provide knowledge (or even justification for belief) about the objective world outside the experiencer's mind.

This book is about the interweaving between cognitive penetrability and the epistemic role of the two stages of perception, namely early and late vision, in justifying perceptual beliefs.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics.

This book argues that ancient and modern African indigenous knowledges remain key to Africa's role in global capital, technological and knowledge development and to addressing her marginality and postcoloniality.

It has long been an interest of researchers in economics, sociology, organization studies, and economic geography to understand how firms innovate.

This title provides the first thorough defense of a naturalized virtue epistemology.

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Epistemology is one of the oldest, yet still one of the most active, areas of philosophical research today.

Thomas Reid (1710-96) was a contemporary of both David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and a central figure in the Scottish School of Common Sense.

How do our engagements with fictions and other products of the imagination compare to our experiences of the real world?

This book explores the idea that self-knowledgecomes in many varieties.

This book examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts and introduces his highly varied and influential works.

Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry.

Is the point of belief and assertion invariably to think or say something true?