Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Although scholars from many disciplines have turned their attention to Russell's work and appraised its significance for a number of fields, and an extensive literature on him emerged, until this book, first published in 1963, no thorough study on Russell's contribution to education - an area to which he devoted no small part of his energies - had yet appeared.

This collection of new essays is a groundbreaking examination of divine hiddenness from the perspectives of different faiths.

The aim of this book is to answer two important questions about the issue of normativity in epistemology: Why are epistemic reasons evidential and what makes epistemic reasons and rationality normative?

Many commentators have remarked in passing on the resonance between deconstructionist theory and certain ideas of quantum physics.

This collection of new essays is a groundbreaking examination of divine hiddenness from the perspectives of different faiths.

Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to construct sound theories.

Provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant''s Critique of Pure Reason.

Since its original publication, Conflicts in Curriculum Theory has firmly established itself as the key volume that not only advanced alternative ways to think about education and curriculum but also introduced innovative scholarship and a radical conceptual grammar for the field.

This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of Heidegger's account of affective phenomena.

Summarizing, in The Uses of Argument Toulmin emphasized a number of points that are by now familiar, but still deserve attention: 1.

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) ist der Begründer der Ästhetik als eigener philosophischer Disziplin.

The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out.

Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do?

This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past.

This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment.

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

This book is the first in the field of paraconsistency to offer a comprehensive overview of the subject, including connections to other logics and applications in information processing, linguistics, reasoning and argumentation, and philosophy of science.

'This is an outline of a coherence theory of law.

This comprehensive anthology draws together classic and contemporary readings by leading philosophers on epistemology.

Some of philosophy's biggest questions, both historically and today, are in-virtue-of questions: In virtue of what is an action right or wrong?

Throughout history, humans have always indulged in certain irrationalities and held some fairly wrong-headed beliefs.

This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.

This book argues that misinformation poses a multifaceted threat to knowledge, while arguing that some forms of content moderation risk exacerbating these threats.

This book examines the relations and structures which enable and inhibit the sharing of knowledge within and across epistemic communities.

On the whim of an idea, a sophomore student, unlike any other sophomore, takes on the might of the academic world with one of the most thought provoking books written on psychology and philosophy.

Is sociology best understood as simply chipping away at our ignorance about society, or does it have broader roles and responsibilities?

The aim of the book is to argue for the restoration of theoretical and practical reason to economics.

Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility picks up on recent revisionist readings of Hegel to offer a productive new interpretation of his notoriously difficult work, the Science of Logic.

Science has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past.

This Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors.

This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures.

Una injusticia epistémica se produce cuando se anula la capacidad de un sujeto para transmitir conocimiento y dar sentido a sus experiencias sociales.

Hume's 'New Scene of Thought,' is a defense of Hume's philosophical principles in the Treatise of Human Nature.

Medieval debates over "e;divine creation"e; are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "e;Intelligent Design"e; Creationists and Evolutionists.

This book considers how certainty and faith are related in the Christian faith.

This book is concerned with the conditions under which epistemic reasons provide justification for beliefs.

Howard Pattee is a physicist who for many years has taken his own path in studying the physics of symbols, which is now a foundation for biosemiotics.

More than 50 years after the publication of Thomas Kuhn's seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this volume assesses the adequacy of the Kuhnian model in explaining certain aspects of science, particularly the social and epistemic aspects of science.

The first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the ''Davos debate'' between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger.

This book concerns the nature and the norms of inquiry.

In this fascinating journey to the edge of science, Vidal takes on big philosophical questions: Does our universe have a beginning and an end or is it cyclic?

Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods form the organizational backbone of contemporary capitalism.