Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior.

What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives?

Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world.

Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman.

This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectivity, bias, and truth in journalism.

Hegels Kritik an Kants praktischer Philosophie wurde in der Rezeptionsgeschichte zumeist anhand des Begriffspaares „Moralität und Sittlichkeit“ erörtert.

New Essays on Singular Thought presents ten new, specially written essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and perception: the nature of our thought about the external world.

Provides new thinking on the compelling subject of ''sensitivity'' - a principle typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge.

Infinitism is an ancient view in epistemology about the structure of knowledge and epistemic justification, according to which there are no foundational reasons for belief.

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"e;Complexity"e; has been part of the academic discourse for a decade or two.

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Studies the history of apophasis and examines its relationship with secular philosophy.

Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications.

Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world.

Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry.

As the profound contribution of mental illness to disability, morbidity, and mortality has gained acceptance, mental health has grown into a global priority.

This book examines the philosophical conception of abductive reasoning as developed by Charles S.

This Element examines literature on essence in connection with the traditional question whether essence lies within or without our world.

This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use?

William James (1842-1910) is widely regarded as the founding figure of modern psychology and one of the most important philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Reading McDowell: On Mind and World brings together an exceptional list of contributors to analyse and discuss McDowell's challenging and influential book, one of the most influential contributions to contemporary philosophy in recent years.

This volume presents a dozen essays by prominent contemporary epistemologists providing a careful examination and critical evaluation of traditional epistemic internalism.

This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past.

We often rely on others for guidance about what to do.

This book develops a novel account of assertion in terms of its function of sharing knowledge.

This book investigates applications of probability theory to random events from an economic standpoint and considers how economics can deal with uncertainty in today's world.

New essays connecting recent scientific studies with traditional issues about the self explored by Descartes, Locke and Hume.

This book motivates and systematically develops the view that knowledge should be at the centre of our theory of practical rationality.

Written by a diverse range of scholars, this accessible introductory volume asks: What is implicit bias?

Group polarization-the tendency of groups to incline toward more extreme positions than initially held by their individual members-has been rigorously studied by social psychologists, though in a way that has overlooked important philosophical questions.

Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world.

Living legend Smiraglia has written the first book devoted exclusively to exploring the concept that is commonly referred to as a bibliographic "e;Work.

Im ersten Band der »Beiträge zur Berichtigung bisheriger Mißverständnisse der Philosophen« (Jena, 1790) legt Reinhold seine Elementarphilosophie vor und vertieft damit die schon im Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens (Prag und Jena, 1789) ausgearbeitete Lehre.

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.

The concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics have increasingly gained scholarly attention, particularly in light of today's urgent and troubling issues that mark some lives as more - or less - worthy than others, including the migration crisis, rise of populism on a global scale, homonationalist practices, and state-sanctioned targeting of gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic 'others'.

With this volume of the Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, the University of Notre Dame Press published the first English edition of a remarkable group of essays that Maritain had prepared for publication in the year before his death.

This book considers the important twentieth century Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his conception of certainty.

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought.

This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge.

Concepts based on full-blown collective intentionality (aboutness), viz.

This collection of essays presents a systematic and up-to-date survey of the main aspects of Georg Henrik von Wright's philosophy, tracing the general humanistic leitmotiv to be found in his vast, varied output.