Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation.

This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory.

How can we justify democracy's trust in the political judgments of ordinary people?

This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences.

This brief sets out on a course to distinguish three main kinds of thought that underlie scientific thinking.

This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other's disciplinary endeavors.

This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts.

In this book, Dennis Schulting presents a staunch defence of Kant's radical subjectivism about the possibility of knowledge.

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others?

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

This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems.

This book shows how participatory research can provide tools to overcome the current epistemic and ethical challenges faced by traditional scientific approaches.

This Element summarizes the details of Freud''s psychology of religion, the development and origins of contemporary western monotheism.

What makes something morally right?

While celebrating the centenary of the "e;annus mirabilis"e; of modernism, we now encounter modernism after postmodernist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, critical race, feminist, queer and trans writing and theory.

David Hume's philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief.

David Hume's philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief.

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: An Introduction is structured around six questions and the answers to them that have been offered by feminist epistemologists and philosophers of science.

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: An Introduction is structured around six questions and the answers to them that have been offered by feminist epistemologists and philosophers of science.

This book offers a historical explanation of important philosophical problems in logic and mathematics, which have been neglected by the official history of modern logic.

This book presents a philosophical interpretation to numerical cognition based on dual process theories and heuristics.

This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens's poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger.

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use.

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use.

This book presents a new way to understand human-animal interactions.

The term 'sensitive research' is applied to a wide range of issues and settings.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology.

This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism.

This book repairs and revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell's Principia era.

This highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contributions from eminent authors, addresses the interplay between content and context, reductionism and holism and their meeting point: the notion of emergence.

What do philosophy and computer science have in common?

This is a book about imaginative work and its relationship with the construction of knowledge.

This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist.

This book suggests that to know how Wittgenstein's post-Tractarian philosophy could have developed from the work of Kant is to know how they relate to each other.

This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics,mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering disciplines emergingof 19th century.

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive volume on A.

This book tackles the difficult task of defending relativism in the age of science.

In recent decades, the historical social sciences have moved away from deterministic perspectives and increasingly embraced the interpretive analysis of historical process and social and political change.

Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities.

Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities.

Conservatives and progressives rarely agree on much-but one thing many agree upon is that it's not OK to be a moderate.

Disagreement is one of the deepest and most pervasive topics in philosophy; arguably its very bedrock, and is an ever-increasing feature of politics, ethics, public policy, science and many other areas.

This book presents a new, contemporary introduction to medieval philosophy as it was practiced in all its variety in Western Europe and the Near East.

ACMES (Algorithms and Complexity in Mathematics, Epistemology, and Science) is a multidisciplinary conference series that focuses on epistemological and mathematical issues relating to computation in modern science.

This edited collection that celebrates the legacy of Suellen Shay, is located in Higher Education Studies and Development in South Africa, the country where she lived and worked.

This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience.

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

This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the philosophical achievements of various female figures during the period 1870-1970.

This book concerns the nature and the norms of inquiry.

This work investigates intuitions' nature, demonstrating how philosophers can best use them in epistemology.