Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

According to philosophical lore, epistemological orthodoxy is a purist epistemology in which epistemic concepts such as belief, evidence, and knowledge are characterized to be pure and free from practical concerns.

This book provides a historically-informed survey critically outlining sociological, psychological, political, and economic approaches to the role of public intellectuals.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind presents cutting-edge work in the philosophy of mind, combining invited articles and articles selected from submissions.

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

The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences.

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy.

A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of religious experience and mysticism.

The book addresses two main areas of Kant's theoretical philosophy: the doctrine of transcendental idealism and various central aspects of the arguments from the Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions, as well as the relation between the deduction argument and idealism.

Almost all of us would agree that the experience of art is deeply rewarding.

The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley is an introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant thinkers in the history of philosophy and a penetrating philosophical assessment of his lasting legacy.

Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds.

Epistemic contextualism is a recent and hotly debated topic in philosophy.

Il suffit de tirer le fil d’un seul mot et ce sont bien d’autres mots qui reviennent à nous, mots du passé, de nos désirs, de la politique, de la littérature, etc.

Through a detailed reading of Karl Mannheim's early explorations in the sociology of knowledge, this book argues for Mannheim's relevance for contemporary social and political theory.

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always.

An Epistemology of the Concrete brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, one of the world's foremost philosophers of science.

This volume brings together 12 essays exploring the history of theories of definition and essence in Western philosophy from Aristotle to Kant.

Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century, this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making alongside the philosophy of time.

How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable about the world?

In the last five decades, ethical theory has been preoccupied by a turn to reasons.

Analyzing paradoxes proves interesting results regarding philosophical progress, agreement, knockdown arguments, belief, the status of metaphysics, and common sense.

I have been thinking about the philosophical issue of truth for more than two decades.

Tuning into the collective understanding of law as lived experience, Knowing Justice is a timely and distinctive intervention in the field of law and literature.

Das Konzept der »Forschungsgrundlagen« folgt neuen Pfaden.

This book is a selection from the articles that I have written over a period of more than twenty years.

To what extent is neoliberalism undermining democracy and distorting the values of science?

Humans have long been captivated by mythology and theorized about the lessons embedded in their tales.

We speak of the right to know with relative ease.

Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself.

"Die Natur antwortet nicht" – ein bahnbrechendes Buch, das das Verständnis von Wissenschaft und ihrer Rolle in unserer Gesellschaft neu definiert.

Thomas Kuhn's celebrated work, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science and to a large extent his 'paradigm shift' view has replaced logical positivism and the philosophy of Karl Popper.

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

This book presents a new way to understand human-animal interactions.

"e;I am not a particularly Jewish thinker,"e; said Emmanuel Levinas, "e;I am just a thinker.

The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments.

Drawing on the work of Maria Montessori and contemporary virtue epistemologists such as Linda Zagzebski and Jason Baehr, Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology presents a new interpretation of the nature of intellectual agency and its associated virtues.

Simply stated, this book bridges the gap between statistics and philosophy.

Concepts stand at the centre of human cognition.

Many streams of research in organization and management have criticized the mainstream view of organizations as decision-making and information-processing structures, controlled through rational representations (substantive or procedural rationality).

This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity.

(1) Beliefs are involuntary, and not nonnally subject to direct voluntary control.