Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

The perceived value of philosophy to medical education is increasing.

Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self struggling with its unconscious.

Sanford Goldberg investigates the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world.

Este libro es el resultado de una invitación a pensar tras Derrida, es decir, a reflexionar a partir de su legado más allá de su obra.

In recent decades, memory has become one of the major concepts and a dominant topic in philosophy, sociology, politics, history, science, cultural studies, literary theory, and the discussions of trauma and the Holocaust.

Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, was an influential economist and political philosopher.

Science and the End of Ethics examines some of the most important positive and negative implications that science has for ethics.

The theory of knowledge, or epistemology, is often regarded as a dry topic that bears little relation to actual knowledge practices.

As a Festschrift, this book celebrates and honours the scholarly achievements of Professor Jaysankar Lal Shaw, one of the most eminent and internationally acclaimed comparative philosophers of our times.

The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness begins by providing the first comprehensive account of the model of human holiness developed by the leading theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar.

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research.

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time.

Concepts related to probability permeate physics.

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive volume on A.

Teleology is the belief that some things happen, or exist for the sake of other things.

Die Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung hat in diesem Band die Ergebnisse der vier Tagungen 2018 bis 2021, deren Themenbereiche einander bestens ergänzen, zusammengestellt.

Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary materials objects, those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in ordinary, scientifically informed discourse.

The main purpose of the present volume is to advance our understanding of the notions of knowledge and context, the connections between them and the ways in which they can be modeled, in particular formalized - a question of prime importance and utmost relevance to such diverse disciplines as philosophy, linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

The past two decades have witnessed an intensifying rise of populist movements globally, and their impact has been felt in both more and less developed countries.

In this book, Ernest Sosa explains the nature of knowledge through an approach originated by him years ago, known as virtue epistemology.

This Element introduces the main ideas and problems of coherentism, and reassesses the debate about the proper definition of coherence.

This book offers an exploration of the relationships between epistemology and probability in the work of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schro- * dinger, and in quantum mechanics and in modern physics as a whole.

This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power.

Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is a key text in the history of British Empiricism and 18th-century thought.

Given basic commitments to philosophize from lived experience and a shared underlying meliorist impulse, American philosophical traditions seem well-suited to develop nascent philosophical engagement with disability studies.

This Element aims to rejuvenate natural teleology and persuade you that much of the world''s activity is inherently goal-directed.

The idea of the present volume emerged in 2002 from a series of talks by Frank Stephan in 2002, and John Case in 2003, on developments of algorithmic learning theory.

This book provides a new all-round perspective on the life and work of Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) as a philosopher, historian, and sociologist.

THIS ESSAY was begun a long time ago, in 1962, when I spent a year in Rome on a Guggenheim Fellowship.

A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world.

This volumes collects new essays by top philosophers, all on the theme of perception while also making connections between perception and other philosophical areas like epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of action.

In this collection I present 16 of my, I feel, more substantial papers on theoretical philosophy, 12 as originally published, one co-authored with Ulrike Haas-Spohn (Chapter14), one (Chapter 15) that was a brief conference commentary, but is in fact a suitable appendix to Chapter 14, one as a translation of a German paper (Chapter 12), and one newly written for this volume (Chapter 16), which, however, is only my recent attempt to properly and completely express an argument I had given in two earlier papers.

Commonsense Consequentialism is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two.

This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle.

Dieses Buch bietet erstmals einen methodisch abgesicherten und inhaltlich umfassenden Kommentar zu den beiden Einleitungen in die Kritik der Urteilskraft.

This book is about the epistemological views and arguments of the early Stoics.

This book considers whether recent theories from Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) undermine the epistemic status of religious belief.

Thirteen promising young researchers write on what they take to be the right philosophical account of mathematics and discuss where the philosophy of mathematics ought to be going.

Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism.

This work argues that teleological motives lie at the heart of Kant's critical philosophy and that a precise analysis of teleological structures can both illuminate the basic strategy of its fundamental arguments and provide a key to understanding its unity.