Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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First published in 1990 The Philosopher's Habitat introduces the subject by investigating a variety of the problems which are currently engaging philosophers, and which can be made intelligible to an absolute beginner.

In the early modern period, ignorance was commonly perceived as a sin, a flaw, a defect, and even a threat to religion and the social order.

This book presents an original discussion and analysis of epistemic peer disagreement.

This volume presents recent advances in philosophical logic with chapters focusing on non-classical logics, including paraconsistent logics, substructural logics, modal logics of agency and other modal logics.

Die globalen Veränderungen fordern unser Wissen über die Welt und über uns selbst heraus.

How can we justify democracy's trust in the political judgments of ordinary people?

Vulnerability has become part of our everyday vocabulary.

Brings together leading philosophers and legal scholars to explore the practical implications of free will skepticism for law and society.

This collection explores one of the most rapidly growing area of philosophy: political epistemology.

This volume documents the 17th Munster Lectures in Philosophy with Susan Haack, the prominent contemporary philosopher.

Perception is our key to the world.

This volume brings together new research on the topic of epistemic closure from both leading philosophers and emerging voices in epistemology.

This book sheds light on important philosophical assumptions made by professionals working in clinical and research medicine.

When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of 'wonder'; it helps researchers question dominant images of thought underlying mainstream thinking, and provides fresh distinctions that enable the development of new theory.

This is the first volume dedicated solely to the topic of epistemological disjunctivism.

Stephen Phillips has devoted his career to excavating some of the most valuable gems of Indian philosophy and bringing them into conversation with contemporary thought.

In recent years, questions about epistemic reasons, norms and goals have seen an upsurge of interest.

La teoría integra el sentido común académico y se ejerce en la cátedra universitaria casi siempre sin reparar en su condición de realidad abstracta sujeta a continuas discusiones y transformaciones.

In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion.

This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general.

This volume includes original essays that examine the underexplored relationship between recognition theory and key developments in critical social epistemology.

This volume features fifteen new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics, epistemology, logic, and science.

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience?

The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning.

For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories.

As political discourse had been saturated with the ideas of "e;post-truth"e;, "e;fake news"e;, "e;epistemic bubbles"e;, and "e;truth decay"e;, it was no surprise that in 2017 The New Scientist declared: "e;Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come.

Do epistemic requirements vary along with facts about what promotes agents' well-being?

This book explores the intersection between apophaticism - negative theology - and performance.

Come Along is an attempt to respond to the contemporary crises in the world with the intention of discovering the path to peace and happiness, which every human heart craves.

'Gaining control' tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species.

Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn.

This book addresses the flaws and fallacies in the grounds for atheism and theism - flaws and fallacies that contaminate the arguments of non-believers and believers alike.

Winner of the hegelpd-prize 2022Contemporary philosophical discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute existence.

Education's Epistemology extends and further defends Harvey Siegel's "e;reasons conception"e; of critical thinking.

In this 2004 book, Noah Lemos presents a strong defense of the common sense tradition.

Post-Analytic Tractatus establishes Wittgenstein's early work in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as an invaluable source for exploring current debate on analytic philosophy in its origins, history, limits and relations with European philosophy.

Originally published in 1986.

Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the "e;new philosophy of science"e; in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper.

This title was first published in 2001: We are all persons or selves.

The nature of matter and the idea of indivisible parts has fascinated philosophers, historians, scientists and physicists from antiquity to the present day.

Current Controversies in Values and Science asks ten philosophers to debate five questions (two philosophers per debate) that are driving contemporary work in this important area of philosophy of science.

This book is about knowledge and its value.

This book encourages renewed attention by contemporary epistemologists to an area most of them overlook: ancient philosophy.

This monumental work presents Schopenhauer''s metaphysics of the will, and wide-ranging philosophical reflections on psychology, desire, sex, death, and salvation.

Vincent Descombes brings together an astonishingly large body of philosophical and anthropological thought to present a thoroughgoing critique of contemporary cognitivism and to develop a powerful new philosophy of the mind.

In most academic and non-academic circles throughout history, the world and its operation have been viewed in terms of cause and effect.