Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions.

Propositions are routinely invoked by philosophers, linguists, logicians, and other theorists engaged in the study of meaning, communication, and the mind.

Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'.

The question of God's relationship to abstract objects touches on a number of perennial concerns related to the nature of God.

For the Parmenidean monist, there are no distinctions whatsoever-indeed, distinctions are unintelligible.

This Element is an accessible introduction to controversies concerning the structure of knowledge and justification.

Many contemporary Anglo-American philosophers describe themselves as naturalists.

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical investigation of ignorance.

Scientists studying the burning of stars, the evolution of species, DNA, the brain, the economy, and social change, all frequently describe their work as searching for mechanisms.

In this collection of essays -- a follow up to My Way and Our Stories -- John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with "e;deep control.

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This book explores the rise of theoretical physics in 19th century Germany.

Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know--aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable.

What is knowledge?

This title was first published in 2003:This book explores the problem of realism, both metaphysical and scientific.

On 5-6 April 1991, there was a conference on Kant at Florida State University; this volume collects the (revised versions ofthe) papers presented on that occasion.

Devoted exclusively to the topic, this book analyses immunity to error through misidentification as an important feature of personal judgments.

Presents a new approach to causal inference and explanation, addressing both the timing and complexity of relationships.

Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the social institutions long thought to be responsible for it.

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The first of its kind, this essay collection offers an extensive examination of Spinoza''s relationship to medieval Jewish philosophy.

This book celebrates the research career of Lynne Rudder Baker by presenting sixteen new and critical essays from admiring students, colleagues, interlocutors, and friends.

This book investigates the development of mechanical sciences with a focus on epistemological issues.

In the course of conversation, we exert implicit pressures on both ourselves and others.

This volume, the third in this Springer series, contains selected papers from the four workshops organized by the ESF Research Networking Programme "e;The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective"e; (PSE) in 2010: Pluralism in the Foundations of Statistics Points of Contact between the Philosophy of Physics and the Philosophy of Biology The Debate on Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences Historical Debates about Logic, Probability and StatisticsThe volume is accordingly divided in four sections, each of them containing papers coming from the workshop focussing on one of these themes.

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy.

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one's action causing further consequences.

First Published in 1972, Introduction to Systems Philosophy presents Ervin Laszlo's first comprehensive volume on the subject.

What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives?

This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectivity, bias, and truth in journalism.

The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind.

An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance—both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally.

This Element analyses dispositions and powers and how they might metaphysically explain laws of nature and modality.

This volume goes beyond presently available phenomenological analyses based on the structures and constitution of the lifeworld.

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

This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism.

First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit für den Widerspruch), reflects the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained momentum in the decade between Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics of 1966 and Paul Feyerabend's Against Method in 1975.

We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs.

Are there any mind-independent objects?

Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers an alternative concept of imagination to the classical internalist and representationalist theory.

Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent.

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in Pyrrhonism among both philosophers and historians of philosophy.

Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to this growing field.