Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

The ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy.

First published in 1958, this book focuses on the meaning, interpretation, and use of the verb 'to know'.

Why does the world look to us as it does?

What does it mean to believe in God?

Knowing Better presents a novel solution to the problem of reconciling the seemingly conflicting perspectives of ordinary virtue and normative ethics.

This book provides a survey of a number of the major issues in the philosophy of mathematics, such as ontological questions regarding the nature of mathematical objects, epistemic questions about the acquisition of mathematical knowledge, and the intriguing riddle of the applicability of mathematics to the physical world.

Erin Plunkett draws from both analytic and continental sources to argue for the philosophical relevance of style, making the case that the essay form is uniquely suited to address the sceptical problem.

As the sunset swings into view, you think, "e;That's beautiful.

Es ist eine Sache theoretisch zu verstehen, wie wir unsere Wirklichkeit zusammensetzen (Teil 1 der Trilogie), aber es ist eine völlig andere Sache, aus der "Konsens-Realität" auszusteigen, die Welt anzuhalten und eine ganz andere zu betreten.

Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy.

From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences.

An authoritative revised edition of the second of Kant''s three Critiques and one of his major works in moral theory.

Luck, Value, and Commitment comprises eleven new essays which engage with, or take their point of departure from, the influential work in moral and political philosophy of Bernard Williams (1929-2003).

Charles E.

This first comparative study of the philosophers and literary critics, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin, focuses on the two thinkers' conceptions of experience and form, investigating parallels between Bakhtin's theories of responsibility, dialogue, and the novel, and Benjamin's theories of translation, montage, allegory, and the aura.

This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence.

Hegel's Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G.

Robert Brandom's Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment is one of the most significant, talked about and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years.

Have you ever called yourself a "e;pragmatist"e;?

This book presents a fresh approach to the communicability of narratives, revealing the cognitive underpinnings of Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmatistic model.

Descartes once argued that, with sufficient effort and skill, a single scientist could uncover fundamental truths about our world.

This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about.

Jonathan L.

Kant's Critique of Judgment is one of the most important works in the history of philosophy.

Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things.

One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical categories such as metaphysics, epistemology and the mind.

An ambitious new model of experimentation that will reorient our understanding of the key features of experimental practice.

The general topic of this book is the theory of categories, its sources, meaning and development.

Why do we think that things happen in the way that they do?

Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature?

Die Konzeption des Denkens bei Parmenides zu klären und ihre Bedeutung für seine gesamte Philosophie herauszuarbeiten, ist das Ziel dieser Arbeit.

Was ist Wirklichkeit?

We are grateful to the authors who wrote papers specially for this volume and kindly gave their permission for printing them together.

This book explores the ways in which reading and textual interpretation function as sources of knowledge.

A theology aims to explicate the nature of God.

This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades.

Many aspects of research activity in science are opaque to outsiders and this opacity infects how connections are made between science and other disciplines.

This book presents a new approach to the epistemology of mathematics by viewing mathematics as a human activity whose knowledge is intimately linked with practice.

This volume discusses ways in which the history of philosophy has been written, from 1800 to 1950, and how it has been informed and guided by institutional, cultural, political, philosophical, and non-philosophical factors.

The most influential philosopher in the analytic tradition of his time, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) changed the way we think about language and its relation to the world.

In seinem Essay widmet sich Tobias Endres der theoretischen Philosophie Friedrich Nietzsches, welcher nach wie vor der Ruf einer, wenn auch affirmierten Selbstwidersprüchlichkeit vorauseilt.

Social robots are an increasingly integral part of society, already appearing as customer service assistants, care-home helpers, teaching assistants and personal companions.

The past two decades have witnessed an intensifying rise of populist movements globally, and their impact has been felt in both more and less developed countries.

This book argues against the mainstream view that we should treat propositional attitudes as internal states, suggesting that to treat beliefs as things of certain sort (i.

In this new study, author David Paxman demonstrates that ordinary spatial concepts, together with the changing sense of the earth's space brought about by exploration, navigation, and mapping exerted a strong influence on linguistic thought.