Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of authenticity and defilement fashion social experience in surprising ways.
The notions of mental representation and intentionality are central to contemporary philosophy of mind and it is usually assumed that these notions, if not originated, at least were made essential to the philosophy of mind by Descartes in the seventeenth century.
Mit der »Kritik der Urteilskraft« (1790) bringt Kant seine kritischen Untersuchungen zu den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der reinen Erkenntnisvermögen a priori zum Abschluss.
Leibniz said with a mixture of admiration and inspiration that the Duchess Sophie of Hannover always wanted to know the reason why behind the reason why.
Der vorliegende Band widmet sich in 44 Einzelstudien aus unterschiedlichen Fachbereichen dem kulturellen Austausch zwischen arabischem und lateinischem Mittelalter.
In A Poetics of Social Work, Ken Moffatt considers the epistemological influences in the field of Canadian social work and social welfare from 1920 to 1939.
Die in diesem Band der Moritz Schlick Gesamtausgabe zusammengestellten Schriften stellen einen Großteil der unveröffentlichten Arbeiten dar, die Moritz Schlick am Anfang seiner philosophischen Laufbahn verfasst hat.
Many philosophers in the analytic tradition are now convinced that metaphysical questions are worth pursuing, but we still lack a convincing meta-metaphysics and methodology.
In this book, we show the replacement of academic and vocational education, which is structured according to subject systems and oriented towards scientific knowledge, by vocational action knowledge.
In Heidegger’s Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger’s lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things.
Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds.
Rational Belief provides conceptions of belief and knowledge, offers a theory of how they are grounded, and connects them with the will and thereby with action, moral responsibility, and intellectual virtue.
The aim of this volume is to critically assess the philosophical importance of phenomenology as a method for studying the normativity of meaning and its transcendental conditions.
This edited volume lays the groundwork for Social Data Science, addressing epistemological issues, methods, technologies, software and applications of data science in the social sciences.
John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding begins with a clear statement of an epistemological goal: to explain the limits of human knowledge, opinion, and ignorance.
Self-Organizing Natural Intelligence brings new scientific methods to intelligence research that is currently under the influence of largely classical 19th century single causal theory and method.
Perceiving, Sensing, and Knowing: A Book of Readings from Twentieth-Century Sources in the Philosophy of Perception offers an insightful collection of writings that examine perceptions intricate relationship with knowledge.
Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent.
This book examines the fundamental importance of Eros in Plato''s writing, arguing that he sees the world as erotic from cosmic origins to human death.
A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWhen we talk about delusions we may refer to symptoms of mental health problems, such as clinical delusions in schizophrenia, or simply the beliefs that people cling to which are implausible and resistant to counterevidence; these can include anything from beliefs about the benefits of homeopathy to concerns about the threat of alien abduction.
