Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them.

This study proposes to examine the tension in Nietzsche's works between two competing discourses, i.

In seiner systematischen Grundlegung Grundfragen der Erkenntnistheorie (1931) arbeitet Hönigswald in Auseinandersetzung mit den Hauptströmungen der damaligen Diskussion die korrelative Dialektik von Erkenntnis und Monas für den Prozeß des Begreifens der Wirklichkeit heraus, in welche die begreifende Monas selbst mit eingebunden ist.

Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories.

Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole.

This book is an essay on relevant problems of epistemology (the theory of knowledge) related to computer science.

This innovative volume investigates the meaning of 'something' in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy.

A Natural Theology of the Arts contends that the arts are theological by their very nature and not simply when they are explicitly religious - thereby constituting a distinctive kind of 'natural theology'.

In this book Haridimos Tsoukas, one of the most imaginative organization theorists of our time, examines the nature of knowledge in organizations, and how individuals and scholars approach the concept of knowledge.

There are two main ways in which things with minds, like us, differ from things without minds, like tables and chairs.

Tacit knowledge is the form of implicit knowledge that we rely on for learning.

Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond.

This book explains how the concept of knowledge functions to improve our system of linguistic information exchange, by comparison with social norms.

This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work along four major themes of Nancy's thought: sense, experience, existence, and Christianity.

This Festschrift is published in honour of Annalisa Rosselli, a political economist and historian of economic thought, whose academic activity has promoted unconventional ways of thinking throughout her career.

Radical skepticism endorses the extreme claim that large swaths of our ordinary beliefs, such as those produced by perception or memory, are irrational.

This is the first comprehensive textbook on higher-order logic that is written specifically to introduce the subject matter to graduate students in philosophy.

Political protests, debates on college campuses, and social media tirades make it seem like everyone is speaking their minds today.

Chapters 1-12 of this volume contain the papers on infonnal logic and argumentation that I've published and/or read at conferences over the last 17 years.

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).

Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge.

In this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy, building on a wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres.

World-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human?

Mental action deserves a place among foundational topics in action theory and philosophy of mind.

Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality - moral acting, feeling, and thinking - that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification.

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-al-Nuwayri's The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition.

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

Delusions are a common symptom of schizophrenia, dementia and other psychiatric disorders.

This book is about happiness and about how the supremely happy life - the life blessed with what Aristotle refers to as eudaimonia - is the life of an ethical individual living in a healthy community.

Dieses Handbuch bietet einen verlässlichen, systematischen und umfassenden Zugang einerseits zu Leben und Werk Karl Poppers, andererseits zur breiten Wirkung des Philosophen in Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft.

This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment necessitate a narrative model of selfhood, understanding, and ethics.

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

Menschen glauben aus den unterschiedlichsten Gründen an Gott.

The truth of an utterance depends on various factors.

In Auseinandersetzung mit Kants Systemidee wird in dieser Arbeit gezeigt, dass die Gesamtanlage des Kantischen Systems nur von der Annahme eines systemtragenden Prinzips her aufzuschließen ist.

Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method?