Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This is the first systematic student introduction to metametaphysics, examining the nature, foundations and methodology of metaphysical inquiry.

This volume argues that theistic philosophy should be seen not as an "e;armchair"e; enterprise but rather as a critical endeavor to bring philosophy of religion into close contact with emerging sciences of religion.

Die Welt ist zunehmend undenkbar geworden: Umweltkatastrophen, Pandemien, und am Horizont grinst die Fratze des Aussterbens der Menschheit.

Justin Snedegar develops and defends contrastivism about reasons.

Truth is in trouble.

The book focuses on the debate about myth as a counter-concept to contemporary scientific thinking.

Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality.

This title was first published in 2001.

Adolf Reinach was one of the leading figures of the Munich and Gottingen circles of phenomenology, and Husserl's first real co-worker.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "De Veritate - Über die Wahrheit" verfügbar.

Nancy Cartwright provides a critical survey of philosophical and economic literature on causality.

Offering an overall insight into the French tradition of philosophy of technology, this volume is meant to make French-speaking contributions more accessible to the international philosophical community.

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world.

This book addresses the questions of what constitutes the integrative learning of theory and practice (ILTP), and how this learning progresses over time - these are important questions that have been overlooked to date.

Belief is a fundamental concept within many branches of contemporary philosophy and an important subject in its own right.

Probability theory promises to deliver an exact and unified foundation for inquiry in epistemology and philosophy of science.

Which objects and properties are represented in perceptual experience, and how are we able to determine this?

Owen Ware here develops and defends a novel interpretation of Fichte's moral philosophy as an ethics of wholeness.

This book describes about unlike usual differential dynamics common in mathematical physics, heterogenesis is based on the assemblage of differential constraints that are different from point to point.

Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology represents the first systematic attempt to unpack the philosophical foundations of crime in Western culture.

Jordi Fernandez here offers a philosophical investigation of memory, one which engages with memory's philosophically puzzling characteristics in order to clarify what memory is.

The Phoenix Pre-Socratic series is designed for modern students of the Pre-Socratic philosophers.

When future generations come to analyze and survey twentieth-century philosophy as a whole, Bertrand Russell's logic and theory of knowledge is assured a place of prime importance.

Epistemology and Biblical Theology pursues a coherent theory of knowledge as described across the Pentateuch and Mark's Gospel.

This book provides a historical analysis of the philosophical problem of individuation, and a new trajectory in its treatment.

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Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun to explore the social life and political issues involved in the distribution and strategic use of not knowing.

This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay.

Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science.

Philosophers have traditionally approached questions of meaning as part of the philosophy of language.

The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy.

This book examines the significance of Kant's moral philosophy in contemporary philosophical debates.

How should we reason in science?

This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science.

Responding to growing interest in the Kantian tradition and in issues concerning space and time, this volume offers an insightful and original contribution to the literature by bringing together analytical and phenomenological approaches in a productive exchange on topical issues such as action, perception, the body, and cognition and its limits.

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping or sharing knowledge.

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Over the last four decades, John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy has formed an intellectual core in design research, underpinning Donald Schon's theory of reflective practice, the experiential perspective in HCI and the democratic commitments of participatory design.

What is this thing called Philosophy?

This volume is a collective exploration of major themes in the work of Crispin Wright, one of today's leading philosophers.

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century.

In Wittgenstein and the Study of Politics, Michael Temelini outlines an innovative new approach to understanding the political implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy.

A classic edition, newly revised, of Leibniz''s great discussion of Locke.

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For courses on anthropological theory, history, and methods.