Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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Erwin Schrodinger is one of the greatest figures of theoretical physics, but there is another side to the man: not only did his work revolutionize physics, it also radiacally changed the foundations of our modern worldview, modern biology, philosophy of science, philosophy of the mind, and epistemology.

Expressionism, Deleuze's philosophical commentary on Spinoza, is a critically important work because its conclusions provide the foundations for Deleuze's later metaphysical speculations on the nature of power, the body, difference and singularities.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics.

John Kulvicki offers an account of the many ways in which pictures can be meaningful which is inspired by the philosophy of language.

Intuitions may seem to play a fundamental role in philosophy: but their role and their value have been challenged recently.

Argues that satisfactory theories of objectivity must include the robust account of experience found in classical pragmatism.

In this book the author argues that human musical understanding is rooted in the traditions of culture and that experience of music depends crucially on what the individual brings to it.

Judgment After Arendt is both the first full-length study of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind and, at the same time, a philosophical work on the core concepts of thinking, willing and judging.

Structured to introduce the reader into all aspects of the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950), this book aims to stimulate further interest into his thought.

This volume presents state-of-the-art research on issues related to evidentialism.

"e;To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things - this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship.

Addresses central questions concerning conditionals by combining the methods of formal epistemology with those of cognitive psychology.

Is contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant?

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Kant is generally conceived to have offered little attention to the fact that we experience the world in and through our bodies.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research.

This book presents an in-depth and critical reconstruction of Prawitz's epistemic grounding, and discusses it within the broader field of proof-theoretic semantics.

Using phenomenology to uncover the implicit logic in personal love, sexual love, and hatred, Peter Hadreas provides new insights into the uniqueness of the beloved and offers fresh explanations for some of the worst outbreaks of violence and hatred in modern times.

For some years we have been conducting at the University of Haifa an interdisciplinary seminar on explanation in philosophy and psychology.

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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 volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy.

Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people live up to their own principles.

The mid-1980s saw the discovery of logical tools that make it possible to model changes in belief and knowledge in entirely new ways.

Despite an ever-growing scholarly interest in the work of Edmund Husserl and in the history of the phenomenological movement, much of the contemporaneous scholarly context surrounding Husserl's work remains shrouded in darkness.

This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts.

John McDowell's Mind and World has, since its publication in 1994, become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world.

This volume features essays about and by Paul Benacerraf, whose ideas have circulated in the philosophical community since the early nineteen sixties, shaping key areas in the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and epistemology.

Metaphysics: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the philosophical study of some of the most important and foundational aspects of the world in which we live.

In a world of endless predictions and precision algorithms The Power of Maybes offers a daring new way forward.

The Mismeasure of the Self is dedicated to vices that blight many lives.

In recent decades, the historical social sciences have moved away from deterministic perspectives and increasingly embraced the interpretive analysis of historical process and social and political change.

In the recent educational research literature, it has been asserted that ethnic or cultural groups have their own distinctive epistemologies, and that these have been given short shrift by the dominant social group.

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

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A convincing critique of the neglect of death in psychoanalytic theory, arguing that death has been a repressed subject in psychoanalysis.

The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy.

This book provides a well-grounded account of the methodology of physics, the structure of physical knowledge and theories, and in particular of the relations between theory and experience.