Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements.

The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce true beliefs.

Dangerous Art takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards.

This book focuses on understanding and researching suicide and suicide prevention from historical, political, cultural, social, and philosophical perspectives, all of which are located in particular contexts of research and practice.

This book offers an original examination of human cognition, arguing that cognitive skills are dispositional in nature.

Modal realism says that non-actual possible worlds and individuals are as real as the actual world and individuals.

This volume opens up stimulating new perspectives on a broad variety of Barcan Marcus's concerns ranging from the systematic foundation and interpretation of quantified modal logic, nature of extensionality, necessity of identity, direct reference theory for proper names, notions of essentialism, second-order modal logic, modal metaphysics, properties and classes, substitutional and objectual quantification, actualism, the Barcan formula, possibilia and possible-world semantics to epistemic and deontic modalities, non-language-centered theories of belief, accounts of rationality, consistency of a moral code, moral dilemmas, and much more.

This book is about Karl Popper''s early writings before he began his career as a philosopher.

This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences.

This work investigates intuitions' nature, demonstrating how philosophers can best use them in epistemology.

The 'death' of German Idealism has been decriedinnumerable times since its revolutionary inception, whether it be by the 19th-centurycritique of Western metaphysics, phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy,or analytic philosophy.

Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for so long?

Using phenomenology to uncover the implicit logic in personal love, sexual love, and hatred, Peter Hadreas provides new insights into the uniqueness of the beloved and offers fresh explanations for some of the worst outbreaks of violence and hatred in modern times.

Merleau-Ponty in contemporary perspective: this was the theme of the conference at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.

Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationalityThere is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today.

Many Sides is the first full-length study of Protagorean antilogic, an argumentative practice with deep roots in rhetorical history and renewed relevance for contemporary culture.

Embodied, Embedded, and Enactive Psychopathology presents a new way of thinking about mental disorder that is holistic yet critically minded, biologically plausible yet value-inclusive, and scientific yet deeply compassionate.

This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience.

This book provides the first fully developed account of Frank Ramsey's theory of conditionals.

Designed to help readers deepen their understanding of Hinduism, and reflecting themes central to the study of religion and culture, Jessica Frazier explores classical Hindu theories of self, the body, the cosmos, and human action.

Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed.

Wodurch zeichnet sich menschliches intelligentes Handeln aus und in welcher Beziehung steht dieses Handeln zum Wissen der handelnden Personen?

Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life - A.

This book addresses the logical aspects of the foundations of scientific theories.

This monograph attempts to clarify one significant but much neglected aspect of Peirce's contribution to the philosophy of science.

Presents and defends a bold new approach to the ethics of belief and to resolving the internalism-externalism debate in epistemology.

This edited volume presents an innovative perspective on conversation and is the first book to deal with the epistemic aspects of conversation or dialogue.

This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy.

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This book claims that continental philosophy gives us a new understanding of digital technology, and software in particular; its main thesis being that software is like a text, so it involves a hermeneutic process.

Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves is a sustained analytical exploration of the rich philosophy of self of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935).

Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world.

Wilfrid Sellars (1912-89) has been called "e;the most profound and systematic epistemological thinker of the twentieth century"e; (Robert Brandom).

Arguing About Science is an outstanding, engaging introduction to the essential topics in philosophy of science, edited by two leading experts in the field.

Goldberg explores the nature of linguistic knowledge communication presenting a novel argument for familiar anti-individualistic views.

Philosophy for Everyone begins by explaining what philosophy is before exploring the questions and issues at the foundation of this important subject.

An introduction to the philosophy of chance which challenges realist accounts of chance.

Experimental philosophy is one of the most exciting and controversial philosophical movements today.

What makes something morally right?

The literature on theoretical reason has been dominated by epistemological concerns, treatments of practical reason by ethical concerns.

This Element offers a simple theory of the a priori without magic.