Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Making a Difference presents fifteen original essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts.

Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory, the first volume of a two-volume book collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, ranges from reviews of Nietzsche and the wide variety of epistemic traditions - not only pre-Socratic, but Cartesian, Leibnizian, Kantian, and post-Kantian -through essays on Nietzsche's critique of knowledge via his critique of grammar and modern culture, and culminates in an extended section on the dynamic of Nietzsche's critical philosophy seen from the perspective of Habermas and critical theory.

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What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment?

This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality.

This is the first edited scholarly collection devoted solely to the epistemology of democracy.

On Certainty continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding.

This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to the aims of such a framework.

Taking the principle of the 'disappearance of the medium' into new territory, this book questions the pervasive influence of the principle that the 'medium is the message'.

The volume "e;Conceptions of Knowledge"e; collects current essays on contemporary epistemology and philosophy of science.

Don Ross provides a concise and distinct introduction to the philosophy of economics for students in need of a short but engaging study of the main issues in the subject today.

This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, according to which Hegel's project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, provided by taking metaphysics as fundamental to philosophy, rather than any epistemological problem about knowledge or intentionality.

This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical accounts of objects and their properties.

Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study in the philosophy of perception written in the medium of historiography.

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries.

"Viaje al Fondo de la Voz" es un recorrido por el sentido y la significación de la voz humana.

This interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille.

In a way, the problem of the body in Husserl' s writings is relatively straightfo r- ward: it is an exercise in faithful description and elaboration of a sense or mean- ing, that of the "e;lived body,"e; using the tools and methods of intentional analysis.

Was kann die Philosophie von der Literatur über sich und über die Grenzen ihres eigenen Sprechens und Denkens lernen?

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers.

Since the Niels Bohr centenary of 1985 there has been an astonishing international surge of scholarly analyses of Bohr's philosophy.

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution.

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This book brings together philosophers to investigate the nature and normativity of group disagreement.

Trust is pervasive in our lives.

This book addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology.

In recent years there have been a number of books-both anthologies and monographs-that have focused on the Liar Paradox and, more generally, on the semantic paradoxes, either offering proposed treatments to those paradoxes or critically evaluating ones that occupy logical space.

The concept of the subject remains one of the most important and debated notions in social theory and philosophy.

The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations.

David Humes "Untersuchung über den menschlichen Verstand" (zuerst 1748) gehört zu den großen Texten der Philosophie der Aufklärung.

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

The book shows how eastern and western perspectives and conceptions can be used to addresses recent topics laying at the crossroad between philosophy and cognitive science.

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Provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce''s thought and analyses his challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning.

Surveys various religious epistemologies, arguing specifically for Plantingian religious epistemology.

This book provides a systematic analysis of how Alexandrian Jews interpreted the Bible in light of contemporary Homeric scholarship.

Although pain is one of the most fundamental and unique experiences we undergo in everyday life, it also constitutes one of the most enigmatic and frustrating subjects for many scientists.

Bertrand Russell famously quipped that he didn't believe in God for the same reason that he didn't believe in a teapot in orbit between the earth and Mars: it is a bizarre assertion for which no evidence can be provided.

Ignorance is typically thought of as the absence or opposite of knowledge.