Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

The author demonstrates the significant role that some of the Edwardian philosophers played in the formation of Russell's work on the problem of the external world done at the tail-end of a controversy which raged between about 1900-1915.

Peter Baumann develops and defends a distinctive version of epistemic contextualism, the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form "e;S knows that p"e; can vary with the context of the attributor.

For Aristotle, habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature; and for William James, it was the "e;enormous flywheel"e; of society.

A team of leading experts investigate a range of philosophical issues to do with the self and self-knowledge.

Method in Theology stands with Insight as Bernard Lonergan's most important work.

Western philosophical orthodoxy places many aspects of other people's lives outside the scope of our knowledge.

This book approaches classic epistemological problems from a contextualist perspective.

This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience.

The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind.

Illuminating the Mind puts the field of Buddhist epistemology in conversation with contemporary debates in philosophy.

Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices.

urrently a paradigm shift is occurring in for the conventional understanding of represen- which the traditional view of the brain as tions.

The Incarnate Word contains the first four of five parts in Bernard Lonergan’s De Verbo Incarnato, a Latin textbook for the course he taught at the Gregorian University in Rome.

While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map.

This volume explores the deflationary claim of the innocence of truth, taking into account recent results on axiomatic truth theories.

Science aims at the discovery of general principles of special kinds that are applicable for the explanation and prediction of the phenomena of the world in the form of theories and laws.

The relevance of expertise to professional education and practice is explored in this collection of original contributions from educationalists, philosophers and psychologists.

Being Shaken is a multifaceted meditation by leading philosophers from Europe and North America on ways in which events disrupt the complacency of the ontological paradigm at the personal, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and political levels.

In his philosophical classic Insight, Catholic philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan introduced the concept of self-appropriation – the personal search for knowledge of the self, and through that of the world – as the basis for systematic philosophical investigation.

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics.

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 book offers a novel perspective on abduction.

Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style.

Argues that knowledge is a kind of achievement, exploring questions of what it is and what kind of value it has.

This book investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology, from an analytic philosophical perspective.

In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), the most luminous Jewish intellectual since Talmudic times.

Ziel der vorliegenden Einführung ist es, den Text der »Kritik der reinen Vernunft« zu erschließen und dabei auch unterschiedliche Interpretationsrichtungen und -haltungen zu Wort kommen zu lassen, die aber in der Auffassung übereinkommen, dass dieses epochemachende Werk Kants Grundlegung einer kritischen Metaphysik sei – was vielen bis heute nicht zu Bewußtsein gekommen zu sein scheint und wegen dessen undogmatischem Charakter auch eine Herausforderung bleibt.

Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally.

In an increasingly multi-religious and multi-ethnic world, identity has become something actively chosen rather than merely acquired at birth.

Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance.

Unlike most other discussions of responsibility, which focus on the idea that to be responsible, agents must in some sense act voluntarily, this book focuses on the relatively neglected idea that they must in some sense know what they are doing.

Understanding Emotions presents eight original essays on the emotions from leading contemporary philosophers in North America and the U.

This book addresses an epidemic that has developed on a global scale, and, which under the heading of "e;addiction,"e; presents a new narrative about the travails of the human predicament.

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wilde's public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing.

This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.

Over the last few decades information and communication technology has come to play an increasingly prominent role in our dealings with other people.

In recent years, the idea of a concept has become increasingly central to different areas of philosophy.

A study of Aquinas''s theory of self-knowledge, situated within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature.

Illustrating the centrality of skill within ancient ethics, including Socrates' search for expertise in virtue, the Republic's 'craft of justice', Aristotle's delineation of the politike techne, the Stoics' 'art of life' and ancient Chinese ethics, this collection shows how skill has been an ethical touchstone from the beginning of philosophical thought.

This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature.

This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures.

Robert Batterman examines a form of scientific reasoning called asymptotic reasoning, arguing that it has important consequences for our understanding of the scientific process as a whole.