Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This book is about knowledge and its value.

Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves is a sustained analytical exploration of the rich philosophy of self of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935).

Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world.

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In this book, Reiss argues in favor of a tight fit between evidence, concept and purpose in our causal investigations in the sciences.

Evidence and Agency is concerned with the question of how, as agents, we should take evidence into account when thinking about our future actions.

This book employs a new eco-cognitive model of abduction to underline the distributed and embodied nature of scientific cognition.

This work discusses metaphysical issues such as predication, facts and propositions.

"e;To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things - this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship.

This book shows how participatory research can provide tools to overcome the current epistemic and ethical challenges faced by traditional scientific approaches.

Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century.

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge.

This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the philosophical achievements of various female figures during the period 1870-1970.

This book addresses whether personal identity is analyzable, with innovative discussion of ''complex'' and ''simple'' theories.

Baruch Spinoza a Dutch rationalist philosopher of the 17th century and Donald Davidson one of the most distinguished contemporary American analytic philosophers, are two thinkers not usually analysed in conjunction with each other in the philosophical literature yet there are remarkable parallels in their thought.

Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory.

Simon Keller explores the varieties of loyalty and their psychological and ethical differences.

It is natural to think that self-knowledge is gained through introspection, whereby we somehow peer inward and detect our mental states.

Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers.

This book explores the opportunities and epistemological and structural challenges facing higher education in postcolonial South Africa and argues for a fundamental transformation to meet the needs of the 21st century.

There are things we routinely say that may strike us as literally false but that we are nonetheless reluctant to give up.

An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumaticIgnorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues.

Winner of the 2022 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book AwardTogether we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own.

This is the most up-to-date collection of essays by the leading proponent of process reliabilism, refining and clarifying that theory and critiquing its rivals.

The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in various ways.

This book presents a new theoretical framework for the study of hypnosis based on an innovative epistemological approach called De-sign.

This book offers a detailed account and discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics.

A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of religious experience and mysticism.

Winner of the 2022 Commendation for Excellence by the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR).

What Is Scientific Knowledge?

By systematically uncovering and comprehensively examining the epistemological implications of Heidegger's history of being and Foucault's archaeology of discursive formations, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures shows how Heidegger and Foucault significantly expand the notions of knowledge and thought.

In the past few decades a remarkable change occurred in Kant scholarship: the "e;other"e; Kant has been discovered, i.

This work is an essay in Peirce's epistemology, with about an equal emphasis on the "e;epistemology"e; as on the "e;Peirce's.

This book examines in detail Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas on thought, thinking, will and intention, as those ideas developed over his lifetime.

In focusing on the systematic deduction of the categories from a principle, Schulting takes up anew the controversial project of the eminent German Kant scholar Klaus Reich, whose monograph "e;The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments"e; made the case that the logical functions of judgement can all be derived from the objective unity of apperception and can be shown to link up with one another systematically.

The first English-language contributory volume on Chinese metaphysics, covering all major traditions from pre-Qin to the modern period.

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural?

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 book is devoted to articulating the connections between the nature and value of faith and humility.

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution.

This book offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentally ethical activity whose norms are grounded in, and must be selected according to, moral reasons.

This book is about Karl Popper''s early writings before he began his career as a philosopher.

We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did.