Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Michael Blome-Tillmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Knowledge and Presuppositions develops a novel account of epistemic contextualism based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions. According to Blome-Tillmann, knowledge attributions are sensitive to what is pragmatically presupposed...
by M. Gerken
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Epistemic Reasoning and the Mental integrates the epistemology of reasoning and philosophy of mind. By examining the fundamental competencies involved in reasoning, Gerken argues that reasoning depends on the external environment in ways that are both surprising and epistemologically important.
Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth
Beyond Objectivity and Balance
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
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. It examines four major philosophical theories in easy to understand terms while maintaining a critical insight which...
Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism
Essays on Wilfrid Sellars
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
The ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Both appreciative and critical of Sellars's accomplishment, they...
by Elizabeth Ramsden Eames
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
When future generations come to analyze and survey twentieth-century philosophy as a whole, Bertrand Russell’s logic and theory of knowledge is assured a place of prime importance. Yet until this book was first published in 1969 no comprehensive treatment of his epistemology had appeared. Commentators...
Knowledge and Language
Selected Essays of L. Jonathan Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
I am very grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the opportunity to republish these articles about knowledge and language. The Introduction to the volume has been written by James Logue, and I need to pay a very sincerely intended tribute to the care and professionalism which he has devoted to...
by Timothy Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Identity and Discrimination, originally published in 1990 and the first book by respected philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued and updated with the inclusion of significant new material. Williamson here proposes an original and rigorous theory linking identity, a relation central to metaphysics,...
The Self in Question
Memory, The Body and Self-Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification.
Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology
Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts. It includes revised contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning...
Gendered Agents
Women and Institutional Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Gendered Agents, edited by Silvestra Mariniello andPaul A. Bové, presents essays by influential feminist theorists who challenge traditional Western epistemology and suggest new directions for feminism. By examining both literary and historical discourses, such critics as Gayatri Spivak, Hortense...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This volume documents the 17th Münster Lectures in Philosophy with Susan Haack, the prominent contemporary philosopher. It contains an original, programmatic article by Haack on her overall philosophical approach, entitled ‘The Fragmentation of Philosophy, the Road to Reintegration’. In addition,...
Reforming the Art of Living
Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Descartes’s concern with the proper method of belief formation is evident in the titles of his works—e.g., The Search after Truth, The Rules for the Direction of the Mind and The Discourse on Method of rightly conducting one’s reason and seeking the truth in the sciences. It is most apparent,...
Alfred Tarski and the "Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages"
A Running Commentary with Consideration of the Polish Original and the German Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book provides a detailed commentary on the classic monograph by Alfred Tarski, and offers a reinterpretation and retranslation of the work using the original Polish text and the English and German translations. In the original work, Tarski presents a method for constructing definitions of truth...
by Anthony Brueckner, Gary Ebbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language users ordinarily suppose that they know what thoughts their own utterances express. We can call this supposed knowledge minimal self-knowledge. But what does it come to? And do we actually have it? Anti-individualism implies that the thoughts which a person's utterances express are partly...