Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This is this, this ain't something else, this is this -Robert De Niro, Deerhunter his book may to some extent be viewed as the continuation of my T Doctoral thesis Epistemology, Methodology and Reliability.

Should emotions play a role in our decisions, even if they are "e;just feelings"e; and not necessarily "e;imbued with reason"e; or cognitively penetrated?

This book examines the importance, possibilities, and complexities of the university as an ethical academy.

Modern medicine is one of humankind's greatest achievements.

Is knowledge discovered, or just invented?

This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen's characterization of representation and models in science.

Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany.

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings.

Sometimes our intentions and beliefs exhibit a structure that proves us to be irrational.

How can we know?

Originally published in 1969.

One of the most influential contemporary philosophers, Hilary Putnam's involvement in philosophy spans philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ontology and epistemology and logic.

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

This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science.

The value of true belief has played a central role in history of philosophy--consider Socrates' slogan that the unexamined life is not worth living, and Aristotle's claim that everyone naturally wants knowledge--as well as in contemporary epistemology, where questions about the value of knowledge have recently taken center stage.

This is the first volume focused on Markus Gabriel's version of New Realism, which spans the fields of metaphysics/ontology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, and meta-philosophy.

Philosophy has traditionally engaged the problem of why there is something rather than nothing as a normal causal question.

An original and lucid discussion of the Republic''s philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relationship to the form of the good.

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings.

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends.

The sheer variety of socio-political events and technological advancements which affect modern society, and the speed and intensity at which these events occur around the world, delivers change known as epistemic and social transformation.

A provocative approach to the possibility of philosophical ethics, this study argues that all moral positions and theories are bound to fail.

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.

Argument and imagination are often interdependent.

Frege's invention of the predicate calculus has been the most influential event in the history of modern logic.

This book examines the significance of Kant's political philosophy in the context of contemporary philosophical and political debates.

This is the first modern edition of the works of Lady Mary Shepherd, one of the most important women philosophers of the early modern period.

This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmatics--a philosophical examination of the relationship between meaning and language use and its contexts.

This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology.

The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation.

Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being.

We say "e;the grass is green"e; or "e;lemons are yellow"e; to state what everyone knows.

This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM).

This book explores the problem of disagreement concerning the treatment of animals in a liberal society.

Jay Rosenberg introduces Immanuel Kant's masterwork, the Critique of Pure Reason, from a 'relaxed' problem-oriented perspective which treats Kant as an especially insightful practising philosopher, from whom we still have much to learn, intelligently and creatively responding to significant questions that transcend his work's historical setting.

Tyler Burge presents a substantial, original study of what it is for individuals to represent the physical world with the most primitive sort of objectivity.

This book provides a detailed commentary on the classic monograph by Alfred Tarski, and offers a reinterpretation and retranslation of the work using the original Polish text and the English and German translations.

Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent world which we inhabit.

On January 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 Saul Kripke delivered three lectures at Princeton University.

This collection features 26 new essays on character from first-rate scholars in philosophy, psychology, economics, and law.

An argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.

Anthropocentrism in philosophy is deeply paradoxical.

Human beings are not model epistemic citizens.

In this monograph Nicholas Georgalis further develops his important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language.