Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality.

The relationship between theory and practice, research and action, is fundamental to all fields of applied social science.

In this clear and up-to-date introduction, Thomas D.

This interdisciplinary collection takes up themes from the philosophy of the influential philosopher of mind David Rosenthal.

Ignorance is typically thought of as the absence or opposite of knowledge.

This book celebrates the research career of Lynne Rudder Baker by presenting sixteen new and critical essays from admiring students, colleagues, interlocutors, and friends.

Polarisation, intransigence and dogmatism in political and moral debate have in recent years threatened to overwhelm many Western-style democracies, where for centuries reasoned argument has been a hallmark feature of tackling disagreement.

This book details a history of the methodology of textual interpretation from Ancient Greece to the 20th century.

Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts of the system.

This book offers a panoramic view of the emerging eco-paradigm of Translation Studies, known as Eco-Translatology, and presents a systematic study of the theoretical discourse from ecological perspectives in the field of Translation Studies.

In his writings around 1930, Wittgenstein relates his philosophy in different ways to the idea of phenomenology.

Have you ever wondered what makes the questions a philosopher asks different from those asked by a non-philosopher?

This book offers a well-grounded account of the methodology of physics, the structure of physical knowledge and theories, and in particular of the relations between theory and experience.

This book focuses on various concepts of space and their historical evolution.

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy.

The primary goal of this volume is to describe the contemporary state of affairs in Western psychotherapy, and to do so in a Whiteheadian spirit: with genuine openness to the relative ways in which creativity, beauty, truth, and peace manifest themselves in various cultural traditions.

A pioneering investigation into the nature of emotions, bringing together important questions in ontology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.

We say "e;the grass is green"e; or "e;lemons are yellow"e; to state what everyone knows.

On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world -- of one's current thoughts and feelings -- is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge.

This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "e;coloniality"e;, understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States.

This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to the aims of such a framework.

Das Denken stößt immer wieder auf Figuren prinzipieller Unabschließbarkeit, etwa den infiniten Regress oder den Zirkel.

John Gibbons presents an original account of epistemic normativity.

Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siecle.

The development of phenomenological philosophy in Japan is a well-established tradition that reaches back to the early 20th-century.

This book defends the correspondence theory of truth by developing a new account of the relationship between truth and reality.

What is required of the idea of critique if it is to overcome indifference?

This volume presents Augustine''s writings on free will and divine grace in a new translation by Peter King.

Im naturwissenschaftlichen Sinn zu wissen heißt immer, mit einer bestimmten Methode Phänomene sichtbar zu machen.

Denis McManus presents a new interpretation of Martin Heidegger's early vision of our subjectivity and of the world we inhabit.

This book examines slavery and gender through a feminist reading of narratives including female slaves in the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, and early Christian texts.

Knowledge gives a clear and accessible overview of the main themes and questions that have provided the context for modern discussions, beginning with Plato and Cartesian individualism.

This comprehensive collection brings out the rich and deep philosophical resources of the Zhuangzi.

This handbook presents the conceptions and principles central to every aspect of Hegel's systematic philosophy.

According to platonists, entities such as numbers, sets, propositions and properties are abstract objects.

This volume provides an overview of applications of conceptual spaces theory, beginning with an introduction to the modeling tool that unifies the chapters.

Boredom Studies is an increasingly rich and vital area of contemporary research that examines the experience of boredom as an importan - even quintessential - condition of modern life.

This book offers a philosophically-based, yet clinically-oriented perspective on current medical reasoning aiming at 1) identifying important forms of uncertainty permeating current clinical reasoning and practice 2) promoting the application of an abductive methodology in the health context in order to deal with those clinical uncertainties 3) bridging the gap between biomedical knowledge, clinical practice, and research and values in both clinical and philosophical literature.

This book is a sustained defence of traditional internalist epistemology.

This volume features new perspectives on the implications of cross-linguistic and cultural diversity for epistemology.

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human rights?

This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states.

Good decisions account for risks.

Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font and analytic summaries of each section.

Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.

Sanford C.