Epistemology category: 1240 books
Applications of Conceptual Spaces
The Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This volume provides an overview of applications of conceptual spaces theory, beginning with an introduction to the modeling tool that unifies the chapters. The first section explores issues of linguistic semantics, including speakers’ negotiation of meaning. Further sections address computational...
Methodology and Epistemology of Multilevel Analysis
Approaches from Different Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
The purpose of the multilevel approach is to understand individual behaviors taking into account the social context in which they occur. This book deals with concepts and methods underlying this approach. This book is of interest to a broad audience of social scientists, statisticians and philosophers...
Kuhn's Legacy
Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Its influence reaches far beyond the philosophy of science, and its key terms, such as “paradigm shift,” “normal science,” and “incommensurability,” are now used in both...
EPSA Epistemology and Methodology of Science
Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Voicing Dissent
The Ethics and Epistemology of Making Disagreement Public
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Disagreement is, for better or worse, pervasive in our society. Not only do we form beliefs that differ from those around us, but increasingly we have platforms and opportunities to voice those disagreements and make them public. In light of the public nature of many of our most important disagreements,...
Warrant
The Current Debate
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1993
Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book and its companion volume, Warrant and Proper Function. Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it is that when added to true belief...
Between Genealogy and Epistemology
Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1993
Michel Foucault introduced a new form of political thinking and discourse. Rather than seeking to understand the grand unities of state, economy, or exploitation, he tried to discover the micropolitical workings of everyday life that have often founded the greater unities. He was particularly concerned...
by Stephen Hetherington
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Edmund Gettier's 1963 verdict about what knowledge is not has become an item of philosophical orthodoxy, accepted by philosophers as a genuine epistemological result. It assures us that - contrary to what Plato and later philosophers have thought - knowledge is not merely a true belief well supported...
Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind
New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. Plantinga has earned particular respect...
by Nicholas Rescher
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistêmê, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations will focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is an extensive, self-contained, up-to-date study of Lehrer's epistemological work. Covering all major aspects, it contains original contributions by some of the most distinguished specialists in the field, outgoing from the latest, significantly revised version of Lehrer's theory. All basic...
Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention
A Theory of Epistemic Agency
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Contemporary cognitive science clearly tells us that attention is modulated for speech and action. While these forms of goal-directed attention are very well researched in psychology, they have not been sufficiently studied by epistemologists. In this book, Abrol Fairweather and Carlos Montemayor...
Encountering Reality: T. F. Torrance on Truth and Human Understanding
T. F. Torrance on Truth and Human Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Encountering Reality argues for a new appreciation of T. F. Torrance on epistemology and reality. According to Torrance's realism, all authentic knowledge involves the nature of the object impressing its inherent rationality on the mind. Consequently, knowledge involves thinking in accordance with...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so? This book presents seventeen new essays on these questions, drawing together perspectives from philosophy and psychology. The first section explores the ethics of belief from an individualistic framework. It begins by examining the question of...