Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

There is a need for integrated thinking about causality, probability and mechanisms in scientific methodology.

According to the cognitive penetrability hypothesis, our beliefs, desires, and possibly our emotions literally affect how we see the world.

The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness.

The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness.

How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so?

This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy.

This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy.

John M.

Across his relatively short and eccentric authorial career, Soren Kierkegaard develops a unique, and provocative, account of what it is to become, to be, and to lose a self, backed up by a rich phenomenology of self-experience.

Argument and imagination are often interdependent.

Argument and imagination are often interdependent.

What is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves, such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements we do not cause personally, such as the contraction of the heart?

What is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves, such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements we do not cause personally, such as the contraction of the heart?

Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do?

Mind, Brain, and Free Will presents a powerful new case for substance dualism (the theory that humans consist of two parts body and soul) and for libertarian free will (that humans have some freedom to choose between alternatives, independently of the causes which influence them).

Graciela De Pierris presents a novel interpretation of the relationship between skepticism and naturalism in Hume's epistemology, and a new appraisal of Hume's place within early modern thought.

Richard Pettigrew offers an extended investigation into a particular way of justifying the rational principles that govern our credences (or degrees of belief).

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Brian Hedden defends a radical view about the relationship between rationality, personal identity, and time.

Brian Hedden defends a radical view about the relationship between rationality, personal identity, and time.

The mind is directed upon the world.

The mind is directed upon the world.

There are two main ways in which things with minds, like us, differ from things without minds, like tables and chairs.

There are two main ways in which things with minds, like us, differ from things without minds, like tables and chairs.

Sanford C.

Human beings are not model epistemic citizens.

Knowledge and Presuppositions develops a novel account of epistemic contextualism based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions.

Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe.

Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe.

We must all make choices about how we want to live.

In everyday life we normally express our beliefs in all-or-nothing terms: I believe it is going to rain; I don't believe that my lottery ticket will win.

How is medical knowledge made?

How is medical knowledge made?

Trust is central to our social lives.

Trust is central to our social lives.

Sanford C.

What form, or forms, might ethical knowledge take?

Kant's influence on the history of philosophy is vast and protean.

Henry E.

Henry E.

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.

The Gettier Problem has shaped most of the fundamental debates in epistemology for more than fifty years.

The Gettier Problem has shaped most of the fundamental debates in epistemology for more than fifty years.

We often talk about groups believing, knowing, and testifying.

This volume presents fourteen original essays which explore the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, one of the UK's most influential contemporary philosophers.

This volume presents fourteen original essays which explore the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, one of the UK's most influential contemporary philosophers.

Can you be a self on your own or only together with others?

Can you be a self on your own or only together with others?

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

Most research on perception has focused on the perceptual experience of three-dimensional, solid, bounded, and coherent material objects - items like tables and tomatoes.