Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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Skepticism remains a central and defining issue in epistemology, and in the wider tradition of Western philosophy.

Sensibility in the Early Modern Era investigates how the early modern characterisation of sensibility as a natural property of the body could give way to complex considerations about the importance of affect in morality.

Moral Order/World Order argues for the centrality of normative theory in the study of international relations.

Covering a broad range of topics, this text provides a comprehensive survey of the modelling of chaotic dynamics and complexity in the natural and social sciences.

For anyone looking to better understand the topics at the centre of contemporary epistemology, The Bloomsbury Companion to Epistemology presents a valuable guide.

This monograph works at the intersection of two of the most popular and growing fields in epistemology: epistemic normativity or value and virtue epistemology.

La exclusión de las mujeres de los ámbitos del saber ha tenido y tiene consecuencias estructurales.

This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds.

This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge?

The book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Eurocentrism and specism.

The present book takes the discovery that quantum-like behaviour is not solely reserved to atomic particles one step further.

This volume comprises three distinct investigations into the relationship between the nature and the value of knowledge.

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

This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts.

The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America.

This second volume continues Richard Routley's explorations of an improved Meinongian account of non-referring and intensional discourse (including joint work with Val Routley, later Val Plumwood).

Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.

Bernard Lonergan (1904-84) is acknowledged as one of the most significant philosopher-theologians of the 20th century.

constitutive of reference in laboratory sciences as cultural sign systems and their manipulation and superposition, collectively shared classifications and associated conceptual frameworks,* and various fonns of collective action and social institutions.

The present book is a book on epistemology with the special and new focus on the relation of different types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to both scientific and religious belief.

Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are individually.

This short book discusses some of the urgent critical debates regarding intercultural education on displacement during turbulent times of contentious border politics and ramped-up anti-migrant discourse.

What does "e;meaningless"e; mean?

Originally published in 1972, Medieval Logic and Metaphysics shows how formal logic can be used in the clarification of philosophical problems.

Was bedeutet »vernünftig sein«?

Several myths about Plato's work are decisively challenged by Catherine Rowett: the idea that Plato agreed with Socrates about the need for a definition of what we know; the idea that he set out to define justice in the Republic; the idea that knowledge is a kind of true belief, or that Plato ever thought that it might be something like that; the idea that "e;knowledge proper"e; is propositional, and that the Theaetetus was Plato's best attempt to define knowledge as a species of belief, and that it only failed due to his incompetence.

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity maps a central terrain of philosophy, and provides an authoritative guide to it.

What is free will?

First published in 1982, Philosophical Foundations of Probability Theory starts with the uses we make of the concept in everyday life and then examines the rival theories that seek to account for these applications.

The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Pale King and Infinite Jest weighs in on a philosophical controversy in this fascinating early work.

Sanford Goldberg investigates the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world.

This monograph offers a fresh perspective on the applicability of mathematics in science.

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious thought.

A new, scholarly and accessible translation of this seventeenth-century philosophical text, including an introduction, glossary and chronology.

What is the nature of Hell?

Why believe?

This Element presents Im Yunjidang as a Confucian feminist who advocated equality between men and women and female sagehood.

Drawing on insights into the philosophies of Dewey and Heidegger, this book moves forward the greater philosophical discourse surrounding education.