Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Michael Mitias presents, explains, and defends in some detail the features that make an artwork great - magic, universality, and the test of time.

This book shows how a sophisticated version of pragmatism, resting on a novel conception of rationality, can justify a range of important practices, including our practices of moral and epistemic evaluation, as well as our practice of making judgments regarding free will and moral responsibility.

This book delves into the long-standing human aspiration to combine art and science.

Why do so many people - sometimes even intelligent people - swallow the preposterous claims of religion?

What makes something morally right?

This brief title will pursue a triangulation of chance, divine involvement, and theology through a fundamentally Peircean lens--at least epistemologically and semiotically.

This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction.

How does the idea that perception must provide reasons for our empirical judgements constrain our conception of our perceptual experiences?

This book considers whether we can be epistemically responsible for undesirable beliefs, such as racist and sexist ones.

Self-control is a fundamental part of what it is to be a human being.

Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally.

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues.

This edition, first published in 2000, offers serious students of Kant a richer, more complete and accurate translation.

In recent years, many philosophers of modern physics came to the conclusion that the problem of how objectivity is constituted (rather than merely given) can no longer be avoided, and therefore that a transcendental approach in the spirit of Kant is now philosophically relevant.

In Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory a group of distinguished contributors examine how perceptual imagination and memory resemble and differ from each other and from other kinds of sensory experience.

Now in its second edition, this comprehensive textbook offers an exceptionally accessible yet in-depth introduction to the philosophy of social science.

This book consolidates and extends the authors' work on the connection between iconicity and abductive inference.

The most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical in nature, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic.

The Gettier Problem has shaped most of the fundamental debates in epistemology for more than fifty years.

Believing the wrong thing may sometimes have drastic consequences.

What does it mean to understand something?

It is widely believed that Hume often wrote carelessly and contradicted himself, and that no unified, sound philosophy emerges from his writings.

Eine Definition von mystischer Erfahrung bildet den Angelpunkt dieser Studie, die das kontemplative Gebet des Centering Prayer von Thomas Keating OCSO kritisch würdigt und weiterentwickelt.

Blake E.

The ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Canam ("e;The Academy"e;) is a national treasure for Tamilians and a battle-ground for linguists and historians of politics, culture and literature.

Descartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this influence has been largely negative.

Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics and economics proposed by Amartya Sen's and Martha Nussbaum's capability approach.

What does it mean to understand something?

Philosophical questions surrounding skill and expertise can be traced back as far as Ancient Greece, China, and India.

This work advances a theory in the metaphysics of phenomenal consciousness, which the author labels "e;e-physicalism"e;.

The book presents papers from leading proponents of realist, relativist, and constructivist positions in epistemology and the philosophy of language and ethics.

In this new kind of entree to contemporary epistemology, Kevin McCain presents fifty of the field's most important puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments.

Probability has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians for hundreds of years.

Public debates in our societies are marked by appeals to tradition, religion and even manipulative uses of 'post-truth'.

Originally published in 1966.

In recent years many influential philosophers have advocated that philosophy is an a priori science.

Though the subject of this work, "e;nominalism and contemporary nom- inalism"e;, is philosophical, it cannot be fully treated without relating it to data gathered from a great variety of domains, such as biology and more especially ethology, psychology, linguistics and neurobiology.

To be a 'commonsense realist' is to hold that perceptual experience is (in general) an immediate awareness of mind-independent objects, and a source of direct knowledge of what such objects are like.

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.

Almost all interpreters of Cartesian philosophy have hitherto focused on the epistemological aspect of Descartes' thought.