Epistemology category: 1240 books
Measurement in Medicine
Philosophical Essays on Assessment and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Measurement in Medicine brings together for the first time a range of philosophical essays on topics in the philosophy of epidemiology, epistemology of measurement, philosophy of health economics and health policy that address pressing questions of assessment and evaluation in medicine. Ranging from...
Making Sense of the World
New Essays on the Philosophy of Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Making Sense of the World offers original work on the nature of understanding by a range of distinguished philosophers. Although some of the essays are by scholars well known for their work on understanding, many of the essays bring entirely new figures to the discussion. The main purpose of the volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book about the philosophy of science is the second out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series. It not only provides a useful overview of this broad topic, but also provides deeper insight into specific topics like the philosophy of science causation, epistemology and methods, and especially on counter factual analysis.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the model theory of mathematics....
Discovering Reality
Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. This work provides a splendid opportunity for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and the social sciences to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The nature of emotion is an important question in several philosophical domains, but little attention has so far been paid to identifying the general ontological category to which emotions belong. Given that they are short-lived, are they events? Since they often have components or stages, are they...
The Third City (Routledge Revivals)
Philosophy at War with Positivism
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The Third City, first published in 1982, offers an innovative response to the troubled relationship between Western philosophy, as it has been conducted since the Renaissance, and the everyday lives of the communities in which we live. Bebek contends that the model of philosophical reflection is to...
The Logicist Tribulation of Sophia
Book Two: Recuperation of the Theological Ethics of Happiness versus Logicism and Phil-Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
St. Augustine says there is “no other reason for men to philosophize but to be happy.” Obviously, the Recuperation of the Theological Ethics of Happiness versus Logicism and Phil-Ideology is grounded in Book 1 of this author’s trilogy because, without metaphysics, there are no superior goods,...
Knowledge, Virtue, and Action
Putting Epistemic Virtues to Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This volume brings together recent work by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the topic of virtue epistemology. The prospects of virtue-theoretic analyses of knowledge depend crucially on our ability to give some independent account of what epistemic virtues are and what they are for. The contributions...
by Kieran Setiya
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? The thought that we can is beset by sceptical problems. In the face of radical disagreement, can we be sure that we are not deceived? If the facts are independent of what we think, is our reliability...
Cognitive Complications
Epistemology in Pragmatic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The prime intent of Cognitive Complications is one of innovation. Rescher addresses issues that are under-examined in the present state of discussion, their inherent interest notwithstanding. The linking thread of these investigations is their pragmatic dimension, inherent in the idea that rational...
by Patrick Bondy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The aim of this book is to answer two important questions about the issue of normativity in epistemology: Why are epistemic reasons evidential and what makes epistemic reasons and rationality normative? Bondy's argument proceeds on the assumption that epistemic rationality goes hand in hand with basing...
Information from Processes
About the Nature of Information Creation, Use, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Information is an important concept that is studied extensively across a range of disciplines, from the physical sciences to genetics to psychology to epistemology. Information continues to increase in importance, and the present age has been referred to as the “Information Age.”
One may...
Believing in Accordance with the Evidence
New Essays on Evidentialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
This volume explores evidentialism, a major theory of epistemic justification. It contains more than 20 papers that examine its nuances, its challenges, as well as its future directions. Written by leading and up-and-coming epistemologists, the papers cover a wide array of topics related to evidentialism.
The...