Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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Diagnosis is a practically-oriented guide to the complex reasoning, observations, and judgment that health professionals draw on to make a clinical diagnosis.

Diagnosis is a practically-oriented guide to the complex reasoning, observations, and judgment that health professionals draw on to make a clinical diagnosis.

The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce true beliefs.

The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce true beliefs.

'Mindblowing' Michael PollanWhy do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness?

'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Magritte, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner.

TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a magpie of genius' John Banville, Guardian'Like Isaiah Berlin with a thing for sci-fi' Tibor Fischer, SpectatorEveryone thinks they want to be free - or do they?

An extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extraordinary book explores the deep connections between these strands which reveal the fabric of realityin which human actions and ideas play essential roles.

Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus.

'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought.

Ren Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.

In this fascinating, provocative account, eminent philosopher John Searle shows how our everyday actions and cultural knowledge are of a metaphysical complexity that is truely staggering.

Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages.

A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.

If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book.

The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common?

One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old.

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of experts.

This Handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of abductive cognition, providing readers with extensive information on the process of reasoning to hypotheses in humans, animals, and in computational machines.

Many descriptions of empathy revolve around sharing in and understanding another person's emotions.

This book investigates the methodological issues raised by the encounter between Islamic thought and contemporary philosophical hermeneutics.

A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives.

This book focuses on one of the major challenges of the newly created scientific domain known as data science: turning data into actionable knowledge in order to exploit increasing data volumes and deal with their inherent complexity.

The book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and epistemology, and on philosophy of science.

This book presents a fresh approach to the communicability of narratives, revealing the cognitive underpinnings of Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmatistic model.

This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas.

This book asks whether there any limits to the sorts of religious considerations that can be raised in public debates, and if there are, by whom they are to be identified.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of Fichte's philosophy.

This textbook presents the basics of philosophy that are necessary for the student and researcher in science in order to better understand scientific work.

Design Cybernetics: Navigating the NewDesign cybernetics offers a way of looking at ourselves curious, creative, and ethical humans as self-organising systems that negotiate their own goals in open-ended explorations of the previously unknown.

This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy.

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.