Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

We tend to applaud those who think for themselves: the ever-curious student, for example, or the grownup who does their own research.

This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies.

Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language.

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural?

Sebastian Knell untersucht die Sprach- und Intentionalitätstheorie, die Robert B.

This book aims to improve real-world critical thinking.

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

People believe in a great many things; and yet most of us know almost nothing about why other people believe what they do, or indeed about how it feels to believe it.

This is the first scholarly collection in English devoted to Maimonides'' Guide of the Perplexed.

Moral rationalism takes human reason and human rationality to be the key elements in an explanation of the nature of morality, moral judgment, and moral knowledge.

Mauro Dorato charts pressing debates within the philosophy of science that centre around scientific expertise, access to knowledge, consensus, debate, and decision-making.

Der Band umfasst Beitrage zur "e;systematischen Wissensforschung"e;.

Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity.

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.

Keith Lehrer is one of the leading proponents of a coherence theory of knowledge that seeks to explain what it means to know in a characteristically human way.

This Element shows how to think strategically in knowledge management and how to deal with uncertainty developing knowledge strategies.

This book derives from a 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Knowledge, Teaching, and Wisdom.

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.

This collection examines the instrumental role of intersubjectivity in Husserl's philosophy and explores the potential for developing novel ways of addressing and resolving contemporary philosophical issues on that basis.

Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs.

How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable about the world?

In this innovative examination of works by Poe, Melville, Twain, Nabokov, Barth, and Pynchon, Herbert F.

This is a review of the psychological literature on wisdom that includes all of the major theories.

This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct.

Symbole sind kein Bereich der Wirklichkeit, sondern selbst Bedingung von Wirklichkeit.

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This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment.

Formal methods are changing how epistemology is being studied and understood.

An authoritative revised edition of the second of Kant''s three Critiques and one of his major works in moral theory.

This book posits that a singular paradigm in social theory can be discovered by reconstructing the conceptual grammar of Gabriel Tarde's micro-sociology and by understanding the ways in which Gilles Deleuze's micro-politics and Michel Foucault's micro-physics have engaged with it.

Contemporary epistemology debates have largely been occupied with formulating a definition of knowledge that is immune to any counterexample.

Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson were two of the most influential American philosophers of the 20th century.

Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, this is a concise and accessible introduction to the field of epistemology.

This book offers an original examination of human cognition, arguing that cognitive skills are dispositional in nature.

This book examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts and introduces his highly varied and influential works.

¿Qué significa motivar una resolución judicial?

Philosophy for AS and A Level is an accessible textbook for the new 2017 AQA Philosophy syllabus.

This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world.

The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.

Since Barry Stroud's classic paper in 1968, the general discussion on transcendental arguments tends to focus on examples from theoretical philosophy.