Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Made popular by John Rawls, ideal theory in political philosophy is concerned with putting preferences and interests to one side to achieve an impartial consensus and to arrive at a just society for all.

Five Modes of Scepticism examines the argument forms that lie at the heart of Pyrrhonian scepticism as expressed in the writings of Sextus Empiricus.

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge.

Integrated Science: Science without Borders"e; is the first volume of the INTEGRATED SCIENCE Book series, aiming to publish the results of the most updated ideas and reviews in transdisciplinary fields and to highlight the integration of discrete disciplines, including formal sciences, physical-chemical sciences and engineering, biological sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences.

The ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Canam ("e;The Academy"e;) is a national treasure for Tamilians and a battle-ground for linguists and historians of politics, culture and literature.

Epistemological questions about the significance of disagreement have advanced alongside broader developments in social epistemology concerning testimony, the nature of expertise and epistemic authority, the role of institutions, group belief, and epistemic injustice, among others.

This volume brings Cassirer's work into the arena of contemporary debates both within and outside of philosophy.

Aristotle's
Metaphysics is an extremely rich and important philosophical work that
continues to inspire reflection and debate.

Notes from the Crawl Room employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy.

The development of science, logic, mathematics, and psychology in the 19th century made it necessary to introduce a growing number of new entities, of which classical empiricism and strong extensionalism were unable to give a wholly satisfying account.

This book, Philosophy of Chemistry, is dedicated to some of the general principles of philosophy of chemistry, the special branch of philosophy of science.

This book offers a concise overview of the development of intercultural philosophy since the early 1990s, focusing on one of its key pioneers Heinz Kimmerle (1930- 2016).

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?

'Brad Evans in one of the brightest critical minds of his generation' - Henry A.

This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kant's philosophy.

Peter Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970.

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics.

This book offers a new account of Aristotle's practical philosophy.

This volume tackles an array of complex and interrelated phenomena which are usually referred to as the post-truth condition - from confirmation bias to science denialism, misinformation, and the rise of polarized 'epistemic tribes' on social media.

This book examines the so-called hiddenness argument of the Canadian philosopher John L.

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century.

This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse.

This volume features new perspectives on the implications of cross-linguistic and cultural diversity for epistemology.

There is a need for integrated thinking about causality, probability and mechanisms in scientific methodology.

In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution.

Some of the most problematic human behaviors involve vices of the mind such as arrogance, closed-mindedness, dogmatism, gullibility, and intellectual cowardice, as well as wishful or conspiratorial thinking.

Is torturing the innocent OK?

We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge.

This book enriches our understanding of knowledge and Gettier''s challenge, stimulating debate on a central epistemological issue.

This book analyses an inconsistency within epistemic contextualism known as the factivity problem.

As the eleventh volume in the New Directions in Cognitive Science series (formerly the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series), this work promises superb scholarship and interdisciplinary appeal.

Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

The problem of skepticism about knowledge of the external world has been the centrepiece of epistemology since Descartes.

In this thought-provoking book, Paulo Ravecca presents a series of interlocking studies on the politics of political science in the Americas.

Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge.

Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases: the property of being bald is vague because there are people who are neither definitely bald, nor definitely not bald.

How does genetic variation impact on behavioural differences and how does this relate to free will and personal identity?

The question of the symbolic structure of physics is implicitly involved in any discussion about the character of physical knowledge and the development of physical theories.

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks.

This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the doctrine of transcendental illusion.

Hayek thought that all economic behavior (and by implication other human behavior) is based on fallible interpretations of what information is important and of its implications for the future.

Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them.

Science is the most reliable means available for understanding the world around us and our place in it.