Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

We typically think we have free will.

Epistemology, or "e;the theory of knowledge,"e; is concerned with how we know what we know, what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience.

Values are inescapable.

Das Erinnern an den Holocaust und an andere Genozide ist immer wieder und auch aktuell Gegenstand heftiger Diskussionen.

This volume represents the first exploration of caste in the field of curriculum studies, challenging the ongoing silence around the issue of caste in education and curriculum theory.

Does time exist, or is it an illusion?

Notes from the Crawl Room employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy.

How does chance enter our world?

This volume provides a historical introduction in the writing of the manuscript.

Der Wahrheitswert der Literatur ist in der Philosophie seit der Antike umstritten.

Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology represents the first systematic attempt to unpack the philosophical foundations of crime in Western culture.

Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language.

This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience.

The bulk of the present book has not been published previously though Chapters II and IV are based in part on two earlier papers of mine: "e;The Influence of Harald H!

Nonmonotonic reasoning is a discipline of computer science, epistemology, and cognition: It models inferences where classical logic is inadequate in symbolic AI, defines normative models for reasoning with defeasible information in epistemology, and models human reasoning under information change in cognition.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research.

This book presents a persuasive argument in favour of evolutionary naturalism and outlines what such a stance means for our capacity of observation and understanding reality.

Focusing on the history of ideas, this book explores important questions concerning knowledge in relation to philosophy, science, ethics and Christian faith.

Philosophers have various reasons to be interested in individual autonomy.

Alan Thomas presents an original study of the status of value and its relation to the contexts in which evaluative claims are justified.

This book confronts the threats of epistemic relativism and Pyrrhonian scepticism to analytic philosophy.

Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia (Africa's better future) from leading African philosophers.

This book offers two novel claims about Wittgenstein's views and methods on perception as explored in the Philosophical Investigations.

This is the first collection of papers devoted to Ludwig Wittgenstein's cryptic but brilliant, On Certainty .

This book develops a philosophical analysis of economic reality and economic science from an Aristotelian point of view.

Evidentialism is a popular theory of epistemic justification, yet, as early proponents of the theory Earl Conee and Richard Feldman admit, there are many elements that must be developed before Evidentialism can provide a full account of epistemic justification, or well-founded belief.

Wittgenstein made use of his insights into the nature and powers of language to search out the source of conceptual confusions in the foundations of mathematics and in philosophy of psychology.

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science.

Christopher Peacocke presents a philosophical theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation of such a subject of consciousness.

This volume of uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central issues and ideas in the work of individual philosophers, ranging from Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, and Hume to Quine, Burge, McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa in our own day.

Being True to Works of Music explores the varieties of authenticity involved in our practice of performing works of Western classical music.

The nature of method has always been a topic at the very heart of western philosophical traditions, especially in the 20th century.

The central problem of philosophy is the problem of certainty.

Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world.

In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief.

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

This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding light on mathematical knowledge and practices documented by sources relating to the administrative and economic activities of officials, merchants and other actors.

The singular role of Shabkar in the development of the idea of Tibet Shabkar (17811851), the ';Singer of the Land of Snows,' was a renowned yogi and poet who, through his autobiography and songs, developed a vision of Tibet as a Buddhist ';imagined community.

The contributors reflect on the concept of time and time horizons in the sciences.

Originally published in 1961.