Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Provides new thinking on the compelling subject of ''sensitivity'' - a principle typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge.

The subject of the present inquiry is the approach-to-the-truth research, which started with the publication of Sir Karl Popper's Conjectures and Refutations.

Reliabilist accounts of knowledge are widely seen as having the resources for blocking sceptical arguments, since these arguments appear to rely on assumptions about the nature of knowledge that are rendered illegitimate by reliabilist accounts.

This book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynamics and power structures that shaped Western democracies, non-Western societies and international politics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 Using Martin Heidegger's later philosophy as his springboard, Peter S.

While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map.

This volume collects together eleven essays in epistemology, written during the past three years.

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

This volume offers unique perspectives on how to engage in methods of inquiry in Political Science.

This book, Philosophy of Chemistry, is dedicated to some of the general principles of philosophy of chemistry, the special branch of philosophy of science.

Engaging with current research in the philosophy of emotions, both analytic and continental, the author argues that reductionist accounts of emotions leave us in a state of poverty regarding our understanding of our world and of ourselves.

 This book draws on the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer to inform a feminist perspective of social identities.

The Range of Reasons contributes to two debates and it does so by bringing them together.

Technology and the control of nature have arisen from the endeavor to reduce the neediness of human life.

Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'.

This book illustrates the value of the cross-fertilisation of literary criticism with philosophy, something Leavis advocated in his later writings.

This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations.

Trust facilitates communication, love, friendship, and co-operation and is fundamentally important to human relationships and personal development.

Kant's introduction of a distinctive form of philosophical investigation and proof, known as transcendental, inaugurated a new philosophical tradition.

How do you grasp the contents of your mind - your desires, your fears, your sensations, your beliefs?

The paradox of knowability, derived from a proof by Frederic Fitch in 1963, is one of the deepest paradoxes concerning the nature of truth.

What is knowledge?

This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophical study of skepticism, a central and long-standing subject in philosophy.

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

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter.

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

This volume uncovers the colonial epistemologies that have long dominated the transfer of curriculum knowledge within and across nation-states and demonstrates how a historical approach to uncovering epistemological colonialism can inform an alternative, relational mode of knowledge transfer and negotiation within curriculum studies research and praxis.

Defends Kuhn''s evolutionary social epistemology and examines new directions in Kuhn''s view on social constructionism and the sociology of science.

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter.

This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity.

This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge.

Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties, or "e;tropes.

One the most interesting debates in moral philosophy revolves around the significance of empirical moral psychology for moral philosophy.

The roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981.

Solipsism is one of the philosophical thesis or ideas that has generally been regarded as highly implausible, or even crazy.

Reflecting a recent flourishing of creative thinking in the field, Agents and Their Actions presents seven newly commissioned essays by leading international philosophers that highlight the most recent debates in the philosophy of action Features seven internationally significant authors, including new work by two of philosophy's super stars , John McDowell and Joseph Raz Presents the first clear indication of how John McDowell is extending his path-breaking work on intentionality and perceptual experience towards an account of action and agency Covers all the major interconnections between action-agency and central areas of Philosophy: Metaphysics, Epistemology, History of Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Philosophy of Language Provides a snapshot of current debate on the subject, which is fresh, enlightening, and fruitful

Das Verbotene Buch des Wissens ist ein Buch der Zauberei.

Scientific change is often a function of technological innovation - new instruments show us new things we could not see before and we then need new theories to explain them.