Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This book explores virtue epistemology as naturalistic and presents new opportunities for work on epistemic abilities, epistemic virtues and cognitive character.

This book brings together a wide range of innovative reflections on the pivotal role that Davidson's concept of agency plays in his later philosophy and its impact on his epistemology, his philosophy of language and mind, and his philosophy of values.

Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for "e;egocentric presentism,"e; a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view.

Peter Baumann develops and defends a distinctive version of epistemic contextualism, the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form "e;S knows that p"e; can vary with the context of the attributor.

This remarkably comprehensive Handbook provides a multifaceted yet carefully crafted investigation into the work of Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest philosophers the world has ever seen.

This collection of original essays aims to reinvigorate the debate surrounding philosophical realism in relation to philosophy of science, pragmatism, epistemology, and theory of perception.

Ernest Sosa extends his distinctive approach to epistemology, intertwining issues concerning the role of the will in judgment and belief with issues of epistemic evaluation.

John Dewey was the foremost philosophical figure and public intellectual in early to mid-twentieth century America.

Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right.

The Law of Causality and its Limits was the principal philosophical work of the physicist turned philosopher, Philipp Frank.

Philosophers increasingly engage in practical work with other disciplines and the world at large.

David Hume's philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief.

Contemporary philosophers of mind often raise serious questions around the concepts of self, subjectivity, and 'the inner life' on the grounds that such concepts have their origin in a discredited Cartesian metaphysics.

Shelley Weinberg argues that the idea of consciousness as a form of non-evaluative self-awareness runs through and helps to solve some of the thorniest issues in Locke's philosophy: in his philosophical psychology and in his theories of knowledge, personal identity, and moral agency.

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

This Element is a survey of the state of the art in the metaphysics of material objects.

The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings.

Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology.

Originally published in 1969.

Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century-and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept.

The International Research library of Philosophy collects in book form a wide range of important and influential essays in philosophy, drawn predominantly from English language journals.

David Hume launched a historic revolution in epistemology when he showed that our theories about the world have no probability relative to what we think of as our evidence for them, hence that the distinction between justified and unjustified theories does not lie in their different probabilities relative to that evidence.

Shifty Speech and Independent Thought is a manifesto for epistemic independence: the independence of good thinking from practical considerations.

Richard Pettigrew offers an extended investigation into a particular way of justifying the rational principles that govern our credences (or degrees of belief).

This Element will guide the reader into the topic of modality, with especial emphasis on the most recent debates.

Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism-the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us.

Presents a rich and accessible survey of an epistemological problem that continues to challenge philosophers.

Applied epistemology brings the tools of contemporary epistemology to bear on particular issues of social concern.

The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century.

This book approaches Hegel from the standpoint of what we might call the question of knowledge.

Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life.

Human beings are in contact with the world through their minds.

This book explores the prospects of rivaling ontological and epistemic interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM).

Engineering has always been a part of human life but has only recently become the subject matter of systematic philosophical inquiry.

In this book, Bryan Wesley Hall breaks new ground in Kant scholarship, exploring the gap in Kant's Critical philosophy in relation to his post-Critical work by turning to Kant's final, unpublished work, the so-called Opus Postumum.

This book gives a critical evaluation of the Vienna Circle, its historical influences, and the philosophical legacy of logical empiricism.

James F.

This book grew out of the lectures that I prepared for my students in epis- temology at SUNY College at Brockport beginning in 1974.

Over the last four decades, John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy has formed an intellectual core in design research, underpinning Donald Schon's theory of reflective practice, the experiential perspective in HCI and the democratic commitments of participatory design.

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.

Outline of Theoretical Psychology discusses basic philosophical problems in the discipline and profession of psychology.

Engel argues that, although the minimalist conception of truth is basically right, it does not follow that truth can be eliminated from our philosophical thinking, as is claimed by some radical deflationists.