Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

First Published in 1972, Introduction to Systems Philosophy presents Ervin Laszlo's first comprehensive volume on the subject.

This book is meant to serve as an introduction to the philosophy of Thomas Reid by way of a study of certain themes central to that philosophy as we find it expounded in his extensive and influential published writings.

This book repairs and revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell's Principia era.

This book explores curiosity from a normative epistemological viewpoint.

Jonathan Ichikawa develops a contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions, and shows how it can illuminate foundational questions in epistemology.

This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts.

This volume examines the concept and practice of resilience from the perspective of Filipina philosophers.

John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis.

This innovative new volume analyses the role of emotions in knowledge acquisition.

The first collective commentary in English on Kant''s landmark 1871 publication.

Rationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends.

Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Deleuze's philosophy this book provides clear indications of the practical implications of Deleuze's approach to the arts through detailed analyses of the ethical dimension of artistic activity in literature, music, and film.

This volume features more than fifteen essays written in honor of Peter D.

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

Reality and Morality develops and defends a framework for moral realism.

This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds.

This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory.

In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers-The Pittsburgh School-whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms.

Note on references to the works of Thomas Reid 5 SECTION 1 - Perception Yves Michaud (University of Paris, France) 9 'Reid's Attack on the Theory of Ideas' William P.

Spheres of Reason comprises nine original essays on the philosophy of normativity, written by a combination of internationally renowned and up-and-coming philosophers working at the forefront of the topic.

This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying 'a person is a person through other persons'.

Inference has long been a central concern in epistemology, as an essential means by which we extend our knowledge and test our beliefs.

'Knowledge-First' constitutes what is widely regarded as one of the most significant innovations in contemporary epistemology in the past 25 years.

Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods.

Life's Ultimate Questions is unique among introductory philosophy textbooks.

Anthropocentrism in philosophy is deeply paradoxical.

Infinite regress arguments are part of a philosopher's tool kit of argumentation.

This book explores new findings on the long-neglected topic of theory construction and discovery, and challenges the orthodox, current division of scientific development into discrete stages: the stage of generation of new hypotheses; the stage of collection of relevant data; the stage of justification of possible theories; and the final stage of selection from among equally confirmed theories.

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings.

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

This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed.

The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation.

In this book, Spencer Case and Matt Lutz debate whether objective moral facts exist.

Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference.

Edited by three leading figures in the field, this exciting volume presents cutting-edge work in decision theory by a distinguished international roster of contributors.

This unique Handbook provides a sophisticated, scholarly overview of the most advanced thought regarding the idea of life after death.

Traditionally, the notion of defeat has been central to epistemology, practical reasoning, and ethics.

David Bostock presents a critical appraisal of Bertrand Russell's philosophy from 1900 to 1924--a period that is considered to be the most important in his career.

This collection explores one of the most rapidly growing area of philosophy: political epistemology.

Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysical thinking of E.

This book brings together ideas and materials which we have discussed together over the years as friends and colleagues.

In this third part of the trilogy "e;Dimensions of Reality"e; the author gives insight into the worldview underlying Nagual Shamanism and explains a multi-dimensional model of human beings and their subtle-energetic anatomy.

This is a translation of the chapter on perception of Kumarilabhatta's magnum opus, the Slokavarttika, one of the central texts of the Hindu response to the criticism of the logical-epistemological school of Buddhist thought.