Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Debates over relativism are as old as philosophy itself.

Foucault's intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche is apparent in his writing, yet the precise nature, extent, and nuances of that debt are seldom explored.

This Element examines literature on essence in connection with the traditional question whether essence lies within or without our world.

Dangerous Art takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards.

This is the first comprehensive textbook on higher-order logic that is written specifically to introduce the subject matter to graduate students in philosophy.

While John Henry Newman's writings have long received the attention of historians, theologians, and literary critics, they have largely been neglected by philosophers.

Do concepts exist independently of the mind?

The concept of observability of entities in physical science is typically analyzed in terms of the nature and significance of a dichotomy between observables and unobservables.

Against Those in the Disciplines (Pros Mathematikous, also known by the abbreviated title M 1-6) deals with six specialized fields of study: grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, and music.

For political philosophers, Morris provides an epistemology that integrates social interests within a normative account of knowledge.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century.

The singular role of Shabkar in the development of the idea of Tibet Shabkar (17811851), the ';Singer of the Land of Snows,' was a renowned yogi and poet who, through his autobiography and songs, developed a vision of Tibet as a Buddhist ';imagined community.

What does it mean to be truthful?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the modern period.

A analysis of Herder''s views on language, reason, morality, race and religion, as factors that define the human species.

Rebirth and the Stream of Life explores the diversity as well as the ethical and religious significance of rebirth beliefs, focusing especially on Hindu and Buddhist traditions but also discussing indigenous religions and ancient Greek thought.

It is widely thought that the cognitive science of religion (CSR) may have a bearing on the epistemic status of religious beliefs and on other topics in philosophy of religion.

This book features fourteen original essays that critically engage the philosophy of Richard Rorty, with an emphasis on his ethics, epistemology, and politics.

The essays in this volume explore some of the disconcerting realities of fanaticism, by analyzing its unique dynamics, and considering how it can be productively confronted.

In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take.

Most of us experience the world through competing perspectives.

First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit für den Widerspruch), reflects the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained momentum in the decade between Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics of 1966 and Paul Feyerabend's Against Method in 1975.

Many descriptions of empathy revolve around sharing in and understanding another person's emotions.

Philosophers working on the ontology of mind have highlighted various distinctions that can be drawn between the ways in which different aspects of our minds fill time.

Die Frage ›Warum ist überhaupt etwas und nicht vielmehr nichts?

Different from traditional research on the mind-body problem often discussed from an epistemological viewpoint, which assumes that mental processes are internal to the person, this book demonstrates the crucial role of contextual relevance in the workings of the mind and illustrates how mind emerges from the individual's interactions with her physical, social, and cultural environments.

The first collective commentary in English on Kant''s landmark 1871 publication.

Forschungsskandale und Diskussionen über Strukturprobleme der Biomedizin evozieren oft die Forderung nach mehr Verantwortung in der Forschung und der Einhaltung von Prinzipien guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis.

In his work On Sense Perception, Aristotle discusses the material conditions of perception, starting with the sense organs and moving to the material basis of colour, flavour and odour.

Die metaphysikferne oder metaphysikentfremdete Philosophie der Gegenwart ist gleichermaßen der Wahrheitsfrage fern oder entfremdet, da die neuzeitliche Philosophie - und darin vor allem die Erkenntniskritik - eine Infragestellung der objektiven Wahrheit eingeleitet habe.

Mary Leng offers a defense of mathematical fictionalism, according to which we have no reason to believe that there are any mathematical objects.

This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics.

This original and accessible text is more than an introduction to comparative philosophy in the East and West.

Frege's puzzle concerning belief reports has been in the middle of the discussion on semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: The intuition behind the opacity does not seem to be consistent with the thesis of semantic innocence according to which the semantic value of proper names is nothing but their referent.

How do we acquire knowledge through a sensory input from our environment?

This volume comprises three distinct investigations into the relationship between the nature and the value of knowledge.

This book explores the nature and significance of Pyrrhonism, the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in Western philosophy.

Do we control what we believe?

This book gathers together novel essays on the state-of-the-art research into the logic and practice of abduction.