Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Stephen Phillips has devoted his career to excavating some of the most valuable gems of Indian philosophy and bringing them into conversation with contemporary thought.

Representationalism grasps the meaning and grammar of linguistic expressions in terms of reference; that is, as determined by the respective objects, concepts or states of affairs they are supposed to represent, and by the internal structure of the content they articulate.

This is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin, which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens, looking at issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics.

This key collection of essays sheds new light on long-debated controversies surrounding Kant's doctrine of idealism and is the first book in the English language that is exclusively dedicated to the subject.

Herbert Spencer: Legacies explores and assesses the impact of the ideas and work of the great Victorian polymath Herbert Spencer across a wide range of disciplines.

This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global indigenous movement.

Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others.

Sara Confalonieri presents an overview of Cardano's mathematical treatises and, in particular, discusses the writings that deal with cubic equations.

Information we use to structure our lives is increasingly stored digitally, rather than in biomemory.

Does perception provide us with direct and unmediated access to the world around us?

Thomas Reid (1710-96) was a contemporary of both David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and a central figure in the Scottish School of Common Sense.

Is the point of belief and assertion invariably to think or say something true?

This title was first published in 2003:This book explores the problem of realism, both metaphysical and scientific.

John Stuart Mill was one of the most important and influential philosophers of the nineteenth century.

Friedrich Waismann (1896-1959) was one of the most gifted students and collaborators of Moritz Schlick.

On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world -- of one's current thoughts and feelings -- is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge.

Encountering Reality argues for a new appreciation of T.

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century on the grounds that no human ideas have ultimately reliable foundations.

This book explores Pierre Bourdieu's philosophy and sociology of science, which, though central to his thought, have been largely neglected in critical examinations of his work.

Verificationism has been a hallmark of logical empiricism.

The first English-language contributory volume on Chinese metaphysics, covering all major traditions from pre-Qin to the modern period.

Nowadays philosophy is characterized by such heterogeneous intellectual practices that its very unity and coherence seem endangered.

For fifty years Hubert Dreyfus has addressed an astonishing range of issues in the fields of phenomenology, existentialism, cognitive science, and the philosophical study of mind.

Deleuze's concept of 'becoming' provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now.

Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality - moral acting, feeling, and thinking - that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification.

In Attributing Knowledge, Jody Azzouni challenges philosophical conventions about what it means to know something.

Religions are the largest communities of the global society and claim, at least in the cases of Islam and Christianity, to be universal interpretations of life and orders of existence.

This book provides a general framework for understanding nature to revive the philosophical study of nature as a complementary research project to the empirical exploration of nature.

This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute.

The topic of introspection stands at the interface between questions in epistemology about the nature of self-knowledge and questions in the philosophy of mind about the nature of consciousness.

In the last five decades, ethical theory has been preoccupied by a turn to reasons.

This title was first published in 2001.

Featuring chapters on the latest developments in fifteen core subjects in analytic philosophy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Philosophy is an essential guide for all those working in the field today.

Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity.

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Although pain is one of the most fundamental and unique experiences we undergo in everyday life, it also constitutes one of the most enigmatic and frustrating subjects for many scientists.

Cross-cultural examination of notions and practices of rationality in ancient and modern societies, drawing on philosophy, ethnography and cognitive science.

This book introduces the reader to Serres' unique manner of 'doing philosophy' that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness.

This book analyses the concept of disease, as defined in the context of evolutionary medicine.

Naturalistic cognitive science, when realistically rendered, rightly maintains that to think is to deploy contentful mental representations.

The Phoenix Pre-Socratic series is designed for modern students of the Pre-Socratic philosophers.

On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century philosophy.