Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Most comparisons of science and religion are really comparisons of science and Christianity, or science and Islam, and so forth.

This third out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series includes texts on psychology and international relations, causation, counterfactual analysis.

Originally published in 1973.

John Kulvicki offers an account of the many ways in which pictures can be meaningful which is inspired by the philosophy of language.

Dieser Band bietet sechs wichtige, im Original nur schwer zugängliche Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1913-39, in denen Cassirer die Grundzüge des in seinen Hauptwerken entwickelten Erkenntnisbegriffs darlegt und zeitgenössische Mißverständnisse zurückweist.

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.

Argues that satisfactory theories of objectivity must include the robust account of experience found in classical pragmatism.

This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, as a means of examining the development of decoloniality discourse and considering the future direction of the African knowledge economy.

In this book William G.

Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010.

This book illustrates the vitality and diversity of the seventeenth-century philosophers now known as the "e;Cambridge Platonists"e;, focusing chiefly on Henry More, Ralph Cudworth and two women associated with the group - Anne Conway and Damaris Masham.

In The World and Us, Roberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy.

This work presents Kant as a vital revolutionary thinker, showing that his Practical Philosophy has been marred by views that it is formalist and centred on categorical imperative.

Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the social institutions long thought to be responsible for it.

Henry E.

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy.

the demise of the logical positivism programme.

Have you ever wondered what makes the questions a philosopher asks different from those asked by a non-philosopher?

Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning that differs significantly from much existing philosophical thinking.

In the history of Western thought, Christian theology was once considered to be 'the Queen of Sciences'.

This volume discusses ways in which the history of philosophy has been written, from 1800 to 1950, and how it has been informed and guided by institutional, cultural, political, philosophical, and non-philosophical factors.

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Title first published in 2003.

The acquisition of knowledge is not a single unrelated occasion but rather an adaptive process in which past acquisitions modify present and future ones.

This book presents a new view of organizations which has important implications for the theory, methods and practice of management.

Jonathan L.

In Appearance in Reality, John Heil addresses a question at the heart of metaphysics: how are the appearances related to reality, how does what we find in the sciences comport with what we encounter in everyday experience and in the laboratory?

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

In recent years, many philosophers of modern physics came to the conclusion that the problem of how objectivity is constituted (rather than merely given) can no longer be avoided, and therefore that a transcendental approach in the spirit of Kant is now philosophically relevant.

The question of God's relationship to abstract objects touches on a number of perennial concerns related to the nature of God.

This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about.

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.

Eine Definition von mystischer Erfahrung bildet den Angelpunkt dieser Studie, die das kontemplative Gebet des Centering Prayer von Thomas Keating OCSO kritisch würdigt und weiterentwickelt.

Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siecle.

Is religious faith consistent with being an intellectually virtuous thinker?

Can normative words like "e;good,"e; "e;ought,"e; and "e;reason"e; be defined in entirely non-normative terms?

When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of 'wonder'; it helps researchers question dominant images of thought underlying mainstream thinking, and provides fresh distinctions that enable the development of new theory.

Broadly speaking, this is a book about truth and the criteria thereof.

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.

Nicholas D.

This book addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology.