Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Die Studie hat Kants Transzendentale Deduktion der Kategorien zum Gegenstand.

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When future generations come to analyze and survey twentieth-century philosophy as a whole, Bertrand Russell's logic and theory of knowledge is assured a place of prime importance.

If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal.

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Unter den Begriffen, mit denen die Philosophie es zu tun hat, sind wenige derart vielgestaltig und umstritten wie "Dialektik", "Reflexion" und "Vernunft".

This study provides an overview of philosophical questions relating to sight and vision.

Moral judgments attempt to describe a reality that does not exist, so they are all false.

This volume collects papers that were presented at the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium 2011 in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria.

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

This book explores the ethical implications of managing uncertainty in clinical decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Freud's Mass Psychology examines one of the key concepts in the theory of the psyche.

This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility.

This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution.

Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of "e;fusion"e; or "e;confluence philosophy"e;, a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.

This book examines the significance of Kant's moral philosophy in contemporary philosophical debates.

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.

This Element introduces the main ideas and problems of coherentism, and reassesses the debate about the proper definition of coherence.

Forschungsskandale und Diskussionen über Strukturprobleme der Biomedizin evozieren oft die Forderung nach mehr Verantwortung in der Forschung und der Einhaltung von Prinzipien guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis.

This book examines the antagonistic relationship between new European nationalisms as these often go hand-in-hand with populism, and the phenomenon of migration.

The chapters in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought, knowledge, and speech are to be drawn.

The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force investigates the concept of force through various 'episodes' in the history of philosophy.

When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell.

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery.

The main debates in the philosophy of time have centred on whether A-theory, with events ordered by pastness, presentness and futurity, or B-theory, ordered by earlier than or later than, are equally fundamental.

First published in 1999, this volume re-examines Bertrand Russell's views on modal logic and logical relevance, arguing that Russell does in fact accommodate modality and modal logic.

In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying horse, Pegasus.

Conspiracy theories are a popular topic of conversation in everyday life but are often frowned upon in academic discussions.

This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind.

In Vagueness and Degrees of Truth, Nicholas Smith develops a new theory of vagueness: fuzzy plurivaluationism.

Cognitive science is the study of minds and mental processes.

This book offers new perspectives on the historical origins and contemporary challenges of modern hermeneutics through a detailed exploration of Herder''s Enlightenment philosophy.

Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world.

This volume is the first systematic and thorough attempt to investigate the relation and the possible applications of mereology to contemporary science.

Quine was one of the foremost philosophers of the Twentieth century.

This book explores the concept of epistemic justification and our understanding of the problem of skepticism.

How can the supremacy of the Western worldview be undone?

This collection of essays responds to the urgent call in the humanities to go beyond the act of negative critique which, so far, has been the dominant form of intellectual inquiry in academia.

Among Anglo-American philosophers, interest in mysticism has typically been limited to the question of whether or not mystical and religious experi- ences provide evidence for, or knowledge of, the existence and nature of God.

What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings?

This volume features the works of scholar-practitioners who embrace critical pedagogy and critical research as praxis in qualitative research about education.

Nyaya Sutra offers a new English translation of the text ascribed to Aksapada, an Indian philosopher who lived around the beginning of the Common Era.

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1877) is a collection of essays and letters by Michel de Montaigne.

This book examines the utopian dimension of contemporary social and political thought.

There have been many books over the past decade, including outstanding collections of essays, on the topic of the ethical virtues and virtue-theoretic approaches in ethics.

This volume showcases some of the up-and-coming voices of an emerging field - the philosophy of set theory - which in recent years has gained prominence in the philosophy of mathematics.