Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Spheres of Reason comprises nine original essays on the philosophy of normativity, written by a combination of internationally renowned and up-and-coming philosophers working at the forefront of the topic.

Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in issues about the value of knowledge and the values informing epistemic appraisal.

What is the self?

This volume investigates the neglected topic of mental action, and shows its importance for the metaphysics, epistemology, and phenomenology of mind.

It's an obvious enough observation that the standards that govern whether ordinary speakers will say that someone knows something vary with context: What we are happy to call "e;knowledge"e; in some ("e;low-standards"e;) contexts we'll deny is "e;knowledge"e; in other ("e;high-standards"e;) contexts.

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area.

Wilfrid Sellars was and remains one of the most prominent and important twentieth-century philosophers: his writings played a key role in shaping the philosophical agenda in the English-speaking world during the second half of the 20th century, and they remain an active focus of intense critical attention and lively discussion.

Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on 'private language'.

'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

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.

It has long been an interest of researchers in economics, sociology, organization studies, and economic geography to understand how firms innovate.

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy.

Internalism in philosophy of mind is the thesis that all conditions that constitute a person's current thoughts and sensations, with their characteristic contents, are internal to that person's skin and contemporaneous.

Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature.

Content and Justification presents a series of essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge.

Bill Starbuck has been one of the leading management researchers over several decades.

In 1945 Alonzo Church issued a pair of referee reports in which he anonymously conveyed to Frederic Fitch a surprising proof showing that wherever there is (empirical) ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth.

Thoughts is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo which together constitute a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind.

Simon Evnine examines various epistemic aspects of what it is to be a person.

Is the point of belief and assertion invariably to think or say something true?

The truth of an utterance depends on various factors.

In Vagueness and Degrees of Truth, Nicholas Smith develops a new theory of vagueness: fuzzy plurivaluationism.

Grounding Concepts tackles the issue of arithmetical knowledge, developing a new position which respects three intuitions which have appeared impossible to satisfy simultaneously: a priorism, mind-independence realism, and empiricism.

Descartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this influence has been largely negative.

John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life.

Top executives increasingly see the competitive advantage of their firms coming from their ability to exploit knowledge and learning.

In the history of Western thought, Christian theology was once considered to be 'the Queen of Sciences'.

'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards.

Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary materials objects, those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in ordinary, scientifically informed discourse.

A World for Us aims to refute physical realism and establish in its place a form of idealism.

A Virtue Epistemology presents a new approach to some of the oldest and most gripping problems of philosophy, those of knowledge and scepticism.

The Essential Davidson compiles the most celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers.

Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, the key to which is experiential or phenomenal continuity.

Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature.

The paradox of knowability, derived from a proof by Frederic Fitch in 1963, is one of the deepest paradoxes concerning the nature of truth.

In epistemology the nagging voice of the sceptic has always been present.

Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them.

It is tempting to think that, if a person's beliefs are coherent, they are also likely to be true.

Jay Rosenberg introduces Immanuel Kant's masterwork, the Critique of Pure Reason, from a 'relaxed' problem-oriented perspective which treats Kant as an especially insightful practising philosopher, from whom we still have much to learn, intelligently and creatively responding to significant questions that transcend his work's historical setting.

In this book Haridimos Tsoukas, one of the most imaginative organization theorists of our time, examines the nature of knowledge in organizations, and how individuals and scholars approach the concept of knowledge.

Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy.

The Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it.

What role, if any, does formal logic play in characterizing epistemically rational belief?

This is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin, which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens, looking at issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics.

The Nature of Normativity presents a complete theory about the nature of normative thought -- that is, the sort of thought that is concerned with what ought to be the case, or what we ought to do or think.

Knowledge by Agreement defends the ideas that knowledge is a social status (like money, or marriage), and that knowledge is primarily the possession of groups rather than individuals.

With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and services is going up just as their material content is declining.

Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a biennial publicaton which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field.

The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple.

Disjunctivism has attracted considerable philosophical attention in recent years: it has been the source of a lively and extended debate spanning the philosophy of perception, epistemology, and the philosophy of action.