Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

All justified beliefs ultimately rest on attitudes that are immediately justified.

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

Studies the history of apophasis and examines its relationship with secular philosophy.

Presents a new and comprehensive defense of closure failure that is relevant to a wide variety of epistemic issues.

Over the last several decades, questions about practical reason have come to occupy the center stage in ethics and metaethics.

This book is about knowledge and its value.

Defends Kuhn''s evolutionary social epistemology and examines new directions in Kuhn''s view on social constructionism and the sociology of science.

Anthropocentrism in philosophy is deeply paradoxical.

The most comprehensive coverage of the core content Being Human, this course book will help learners grasp complex philosophical ideas and develop the crucial thinking skills.

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy.

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

This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A series/B series distinction, the author of this essay goes on to provide a non-paradoxical, tensed, phenomenologically-based account of the 'going on' or 'taking place' of events in time that escapes the paradoxes endemic to 'passage' as understood via the A series/B series distinction.

A collection of the influential ethical writings of medieval philosopher William of Ockham, published in English for the first time.

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.

John Stuart Mill considered his A System of Logic, first published in 1843, the methodological foundation and intellectual groundwork of his later works in ethical, social, and political theory.

This book demonstrates how a local elite built upon colonial knowledge to produce a vernacular knowledge that maintained the older legacy of a pluralistic Sufism.

Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons presents a philosophical conception of logic-"e;logical expressivism"e;-according to which the role of logic is to make explicit reason relations, which are often neither monotonic nor transitive.

The question of the symbolic structure of physics is implicitly involved in any discussion about the character of physical knowledge and the development of physical theories.

Originally published in 1961.

The most influential philosopher in the analytic tradition of his time, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) changed the way we think about language and its relation to the world.

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science.

Martin Smith explores a question central to philosophy-namely, what does it take for a belief to be justified or rational?

Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature.

Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War.

How can we know?

This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles.

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.

In seinem Essay widmet sich Tobias Endres der theoretischen Philosophie Friedrich Nietzsches, welcher nach wie vor der Ruf einer, wenn auch affirmierten Selbstwidersprüchlichkeit vorauseilt.

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always.

In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "e;self-consciousness is desire itself"e; and that it attains its "e;satisfaction"e; only in another self-consciousness.

This book provides a close examination of Kant's and Fichte's idealisms, as well as the positions of their predecessors and successors, in order to isolate and evaluate various essential elements of transcendental inquiry.

Offers the first comprehensive textbook covering the interrelations between topics in the philosophy of logic in an accessible, non-technical, and up-to-date way.

This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the epistemological and theoretical foundations that engendered and sustain the field, drawing on insights and approaches from anthropology, linguistics, economics, political science, and education to create an accessible and inter-disciplinary overview of LPP as a coherent discipline.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding of all philosophical works.

This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production.

One of the central areas of concern in late twentieth-century philosophy is the debate between Realism and anti-Realism.

Humility is a vital aspect of political discussion, social media and self-help, whilst recent empirical research has linked humility to improved well-being, open-mindedness and increased accuracy in assessing persuasive messages.

In On the Genealogy of Color, Zed Adams argues for a historicized approach to conceptual analysis, by exploring the relevance of the history of color science for contemporary philosophical debates about color realism.

The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities.

How does genetic variation impact on behavioural differences and how does this relate to free will and personal identity?

When graduate students start their studies, they usually have sound knowledge of some areas of philosophy, but the overall map of their knowledge is often patchy and disjointed.

This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use?

This volume explores evidentialism, a major theory of epistemic justification.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.