Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Contemporary philosophy of science analyzes psychology as a science with special features, because this discipline includes some specific philosophical problems - descriptive and normative, structural and dynamic.

This book contains more than 15 essays that explore issues in truth, existence, and explanation.

In our everyday social interactions, we try to make sense of what people are thinking, why they act as they do, and what they are likely to do next.

Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about.

Much of what we know is acquired by taking things on the word of other people whom we trust and treat as authorities concerning what to believe.

Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century.

Engaging undergraduate students and instigating debate within philosophy seminars is one of the greatest challenges faced by instructors on a daily basis.

Measurement in Medicine brings together for the first time a range of philosophical essays on topics in the philosophy of epidemiology, epistemology of measurement, philosophy of health economics and health policy that address pressing questions of assessment and evaluation in medicine.

This book sets out to convey the breadth of philosophical interest in life and death during the early modern period.

For the first time in history, scholars working on language and culture from within an evolutionary epistemological framework, and thereby emphasizing complementary or deviating theories of the Modern Synthesis, were brought together.

Bertrand Russell's writings on logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language and epistemology are among the most influential of the twentieth century.

›Schmutz‹ ist ›Materie am falschen Ort‹, eine Kategorie für das, was sich den Platzanweisungen kultureller Ordnungen widersetzt.

This Element asks whether modalized epistemology can succeed, in order to gain insight into knowing''s essence.

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This book puts forward a much-needed reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the Critique of Pure Reason.

The chapters in this volume are all devoted to a single question: Can wisdom be taught, or at least fostered?

The book gathers several contributions by historians of physics, philosophers of science and scientists as new essays in the history of physics ranging across the entire field, related in most instances to the works of Salvo D'Agostino (1921-2020), one of the field's most prominent scholars since the second half of the past century.

Das Buch stellt die sozialtheoretische Frage nach der besonderen Qualität leiblicher Kopräsenz, verstanden als Urszene des Sozialen, und beantwortet sie mit den Mitteln einer leibphänomenologisch instruierten Praxistheorie.

Philosophers have various reasons to be interested in individual autonomy.

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In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as a desire to know.

It is commonly held that our thoughts, beliefs, desires and feelings - the mental phenomena that we instantiate - are constituted by states and processes that occur inside our head.

This book addresses the urgent need for a large and systematic analysis of current interdisciplinary (ID) research and practice.

This Festschrift celebrates Teddy Seidenfeld and his seminal contributions to philosophy, statistics, probability, game theory and related areas.

Over the last several decades, questions about practical reason have come to occupy the center stage in ethics and metaethics.

The book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and epistemology, and on philosophy of science.

Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human interests.

Hellenistic philosophy concerns the thought of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics, the most influential philosophical groups in the era between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and the defeat of the last Greek stronghold in the ancient world (31 BCE).

A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.

The biological and social sciences often generalize causal conclusions from one context or location to others that may differ in some relevant respects, as is illustrated by inferences from animal models to humans or from a pilot study to a broader population.

Vagueness, volume XX, contains twenty-seven essays, with issues covered including: nihilism, phenomenal sorites, degrees of truth, epistemicism, higher-order vagueness, contextualism, and intuitionism.

Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement?

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

Experience suggests time has an objective present moment, and is dynamic; science suggests otherwise.