Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature.

Justification as Ignorance offers an original account of epistemic justification as both non-factive and luminous, vindicating core internalist intuitions without construing justification as an internal condition knowable by reflection alone.

This book offers a challenge to certain epistemic features of belief, resulting in a unified and coherent picture of the epistemology of belief.

Made popular by John Rawls, ideal theory in political philosophy is concerned with putting preferences and interests to one side to achieve an impartial consensus and to arrive at a just society for all.

While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's articles have been less widely accessible.

A study of Aquinas''s theory of self-knowledge, situated within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature.

The thirteen essays in this volume explore for the first time the possible skeptical implications of disagreement in different areas and from different perspectives, with an emphasis in the current debate about the epistemic significance of disagreement.

This collection of 19 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time and written by an international team of established and emerging scholars, explores the place of intellectual virtues and vices in a social world.

Wittgenstein's Intentions, first published in 1993, presents a series of essays dedicated to the great Wittgenstein exegete John Hunter.

The Things We Do and Why We Do Them argues against the common assumption that there is one thing called 'action' which all reason-giving explanations of action are geared towards.

Re-examines our relationship to the modern world by providing new perspectives on the influence of medieval, Jewish, and Christian theologies.

Few concepts have been considered as essential to the theory of knowledge and rational belief as that of evidence.

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

This book introduces readers to the rich discipline of Africana Studies, reflecting on how it has developed over the last fifty years as an intellectual enterprise for knowledge production about Africa and the African diaspora.

This book argues that many mental states, including such conscious states as perceptual experiences and bodily sensations, are identical with brain states.

Conspiracy theories have a bad reputation.

Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence.

This volume presents fourteen original essays which explore the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, one of the UK's most influential contemporary philosophers.

Scott Sturgeon presents an original account of mental states and their dynamics.

This volume presents state-of-the-art research on issues related to evidentialism.

My Philosophical Development is Russell's intellectual autobiography and provides a fascinating insight into the extraordinary energy and philosophical ambition that saw him write over 40 books.

The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning.

Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune.

First published in 1752, Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason [Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre] was written as a textbook and widely adopted by many 18th-century German instructors, but most notably by Immanuel Kant.

Through a detailed reading of Karl Mannheim's early explorations in the sociology of knowledge, this book argues for Mannheim's relevance for contemporary social and political theory.

What is an epistemic virtue?

In this volume, authors Alan Bailey and Dan O'Brien examine the full import of David Hume's arguments and the context of the society in which his work came to fruition.

¿Por qué razón, en los últimos dos siglos, la epistemología occidental dominante eliminó de la reflexión el contexto cultural y político de producción y reproducción del conocimiento?

Fully updated with new topics covering the latest developments and debates, the second edition of this highly influential text retains its unique combination of accessibility and originality.

Indem die Erstleser Kants die Debatte um die Rolle des Dings an sich im kantischen Idealismus anstießen, gaben sie den Ton für die Rezeption von Kants Philosophie an, wie sie die Fachdiskurse bis heute prägt.

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Examines each section of Hume''s second Enquiry in detail and considers its place within Hume''s philosophy as a whole.

This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen.

Focusing on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d.

Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports?

This fifth edition of Philosophy through Film uses recently released, well-received movies to explore answers to classic questions in philosophy in an approachable yet philosophically rigorous manner.

Diese Untersuchung zeigt, daß es zwischen der singulären Wahrnehmung von Gegenständen und der objektiven und kommunizierbaren Erkenntnis ein `Mittleres' gibt, d.

The essays collected in this volume address a range of issues that arise when the focus of philosophical reflection on identity is shifted from metaphysical to practical and evaluative concerns.

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory.

In light of postcolonial and feminist critiques of 'experience' and 'identity', how can feminists engage stories of marginalized peoples' experience in the development of feminist theories and modes of activism that take account of the diversity of women's situations?

This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language and mind, and a scholar of the history of analytical philosophy.

The contributors to this volume argue that whilst there is a commonplace superstition conspiracy theories are examples of bad beliefs (and that the kind of people who believe conspiracy theories are typically irrational), many conspiracy theories are rational to believe: the members of the Dewey Commission were right to say that the Moscow Trials of the 1930s were a sham; Woodward and Bernstein were correct to think that Nixon was complicit in the conspiracy to deny any wrongdoing in the Watergate Hotel break in; and if we either accept the terrorist events of 9/11 were committed by Al-Qaeda, or that the Bush Administration was responsible, then it seems we are endorsing some theory about a conspiracy to commit an act of terror on American soil.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has had, and continues to have, an enormous impact on modern philosophy.

This book motivates and systematically develops the view that knowledge should be at the centre of our theory of practical rationality.