Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This book repairs and revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell's Principia era.

Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data- processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

Das Erstlingswerk von David Hume (1711–1776), das hier in der bearbeiteten Übersetzung von Theodor Lipps neu ediert wird, trägt den Titel A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects; die Bücher I und II der Schrift (Über den Verstand, Über die Affekte) wurden 1739 anonym publiziert, Buch III (Über Moral) folgte 1740, ebenfalls anonym.

Jens Bonnemann widmet sich Sartres Theorie der Imagination.

Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century-and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept.

This book presents a novel pluralist strategy for answering Molyneux's 300+-year-old conundrum: Would a person, born blind but given sight, identify a shape previously known only by their touch?

This rich collection of essays addresses all the key aspects of Cassirer''s multi-faceted philosophical thought.

This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind.

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.

Diese philosophische, interdisziplinäre Studie untersucht, auf welche Weise Fehlfunktionen einen einzigartigen Zugang zu Daten für Entdeckung und Prüfung von Theorien in vielen Wissenschaften bieten.

Philosophy of Probability provides a comprehensive introduction to theoretical issues that occupy a central position in disciplines ranging from philosophy of mind and epistemology to cognitive science, decision theory and artificial intelligence.

More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy.

This title was first published in 2001.

Religious intolerance is very old and widespread - a phenomenon of a highly distinctive nature which defies reduction to a simpler kind of vice.

Originally published in 1940.

Explores Galen''s contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology and their legacy in the Islamic world.

This Element shows how contemporary physics can enrich debates over the metaphysics of fundamentality.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

In this book, Phillips gives an overview of the contribution of Nyaya--the classical Indian school that defends an externalist position about knowledge as well as an internalist position about justification.

Virtue is among the most venerable concepts in philosophy, and has recently seen a major revival.

No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology.

Philosophical questions surrounding skill and expertise can be traced back as far as Ancient Greece, China, and India.

The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards offers a state-of-the-art summary of scholarship on Edwards by a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary group of Edwards scholars, many of whom serve as global leaders in the burgeoning world of research and writing on 'America's theologian'.

Plato's Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato.

Assertions belong to the family of speech acts that make claims regarding how things are.

This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kant's philosophy.

This book proposes a different perspective on actual queries within the field of ontology.

The fifteen essays in this second edition of this highly popular Companion address all aspects of Hume''s wide-ranging thought.

Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry.

This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A.

Why people are not as gullible as we thinkNot Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe-and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions.

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Millikan provides the first in-depth discussion on the psychological act of reidentification.

Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Deleuze's philosophy this book provides clear indications of the practical implications of Deleuze's approach to the arts through detailed analyses of the ethical dimension of artistic activity in literature, music, and film.

This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics.

Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness.

This volume collects four published articles by the late Tamara Horowitz and two unpublished papers on decision theory: "e;Making Rational Decisions When Preferences Cycle"e; and the monograph-length "e;The Backtracking Fallacy.

Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to construct sound theories.

Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'.

Originally published in 1990.

Was ist Musik?

Demonstrates how truthmaking can be used to make progress all across philosophy, but without its usual theoretical baggage.

Brings together some of the most important research publications on the philosophical problem of consciousness.