Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes.

A fresh and thorough exploration of Leibniz''s often controversial theories, including his thought on teleology, contingency, freedom, and moral responsibility.

A study of one of the most important and obscure sections of Kant''s Critique of Pure Reason.

This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine.

This Element introduces major issues in the epistemology of experimental physics through discussion of canonical physics experiments.

We know facts, but we also know how to do things.

This book examines how the semantics and metaphysics of disagreement affect the epistemology of disagreement.

I am very grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the opportunity to republish these articles about knowledge and language.

How can we advance knowledge?

This book addresses the logical aspects of the foundations of scientific theories.

Aristoteles' Traktat De anima untersucht die Natur der Seele.

Neuausgabe des grundlegenden Werkes des englischen Empirismus nach der Übersetzung von Theodor Lipps 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.

This is the first scholarly collection in English devoted to Maimonides'' Guide of the Perplexed.

Our knowledge of the world comes from various sources.

This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics,mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering disciplines emergingof 19th century.

Fictive Theories is a significant and innovative intervention in key debates in political theory concerning the ways theory should be philosophically grounded, and the task that political theory should set itself.

This title was first published in 2002.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the  European tradition of the twentieth century.

This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement?

Truth: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to philosophical theories about the nature of truth.

This book is a study in the logic of questions (sometimes called erotetic logic).

Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in allits forms and traditions.

John McDowell's Mind and World has, since its publication in 1994, become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world.

Schopenhauer's philosophy, at first sight so beautifully rounded, upon analysis reveals itself as the secret arena of two conflicting world-views.

What have the great philosophers written about the nature of knowledge?

The present book brings together several case studies, dealing with relevant facets of the work of some of philosophy's all-time greats.

This edited collection offers a critical appreciation of talent management in contrast to the extensive literature adopting mainstream approaches to the topic.

The world, according to Kant, is made up of two levels of reality: the transcendental and the empirical.

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'.

Current Controversies in Values and Science asks ten philosophers to debate five questions (two philosophers per debate) that are driving contemporary work in this important area of philosophy of science.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century.

What is rationality and how are we to conceive of it today given the major theoretical changes that have profoundly altered our philosophical self-understanding?

Speakers can get to know the meaning of any of indefinitely many sentences that they have never heard before.

This volume explores the possibilities and pressures of the language of revelation on human understanding.

MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.

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?

The present volume investigates the legacy of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics.

Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book and its companion volume, Warrant and Proper Function.

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