Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide to the metaphysics of Bohmian mechanics.

Dass Natur nicht nur stabil und statisch, sondern auch instabil und dynamisch ist, hat die Physik in den letzten 40 Jahren zeigen können.

Recent findings about the capabilities of smart animals such as corvids or octopi and novel types of artificial intelligence (AI), from social robots to cognitive assistants, are provoking the demand for new answers for meaningful comparison with other kinds of intelligence.

The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is a passionate yet analytical critique of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalists.

Can you be a self on your own or only together with others?

We live in an age of scientific collaboration, popular uprisings, failing political parties, and increasing corporate power.

This volume investigates forms of normativity through the phenomenological methods of description, analysis, and interpretation.

Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices.

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana’s celebrated phrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist.

This volume brings together recent work by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the topic of virtue epistemology.

Die Welt gibt es nicht.

Russell's classic examination of the relation between individual experience and the general body of scientific knowledge.

The field of epistemology is undergoing significant changes.

Our ontology as well as our grammar are, as Quine affirms, ineliminable parts of our conceptual contribution to our theory of the world.

Marková offers a dialogical perspective to problems in daily life and professional practices involving communication, care, and therapy.

Our thoughts about the world are clearly influenced by such things as point of view, temperament, past experience and culture.

In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons.

Outline of Theoretical Psychology discusses basic philosophical problems in the discipline and profession of psychology.

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

In this volume the philosophy of perception and observation is discussed by leading philosophers with implications in the philosophy of mind, in epistemology, and in philosophy of science.

There are two main ways in which things with minds, like us, differ from things without minds, like tables and chairs.

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

Gabriel Marcel reminds me that I asked him to write for this book.

The book offers a reflection on the nature, scope, and limits of knowledge that have been at the focus of the author's work over decades.

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The main debates in the philosophy of time have centred on whether A-theory, with events ordered by pastness, presentness and futurity, or B-theory, ordered by earlier than or later than, are equally fundamental.

Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities.

Extended Rationality provides a novel account of the structure of epistemic justification.

This book is meant as a part of the larger contemporary philosophical project of naturalizing logico-mathematical knowledge, and addresses the key question that motivates most of the work in this field: What is philosophically relevant about the nature of logico-mathematical knowledge in recent research in psychology and cognitive science?

Salience is both central to human life and relatively underexplored as a philosophical topic.

Der Band bringt in zwei Teilabschnitten Religionsphilosophen der analytischen Tradition mit Vertretern des kontinentalen Denkens in ein Gespräch darüber, inwiefern Zeitlichkeit und Sprachlichkeit unsere Vorstellung von Gott bestimmen.

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical investigation of ignorance.

Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living.

The aim of this volume is to assess Friedrich Schleiermacher's contribution to the theory of translation two centuries after his address "e;On the Different Methods of Translating"e; at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and to explore its potential for generating future innovative work.

Childhood looms large in our understanding of human life, as a phase through which all adults have passed.