Epistemology category: 1240 books
Bayesian Argumentation
The practical side of probability
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation. Together, they form a challenge to philosophers versed in both the use and criticism of Bayesian models who have largely overlooked their...
Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism
A Critical Assessment of Failed Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism: A Critical Assessment of Failed Solutions critically assesses cultural interpretivism by scrutinizing five different proponents of it and their solutions to the problem of rationality. The book examines the works of Peter Winch, Charles Taylor, Clifford Geertz,...
All Talked Out
Naturalism and the Future of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In All Talked Out J.D. Trout exemplifies the power of science in a philosopher's hands, and takes a welcome look at the resulting fate of philosophy. Based on his 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Lectures, each chapter presents a novel and positive view of intellectual advancements with respect to traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Descartes once argued that, with sufficient effort and skill, a single scientist could uncover fundamental truths about our world. Contemporary science proves the limits of this claim. From synthesizing the human genome to predicting the effects of climate change, some current scientific research...
Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt
A Philosophical Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a person named Vatol who grows up in a world containing numerous people who are brains-in-vats and who hallucinate their entire lives. Would Vatol have reason...
Philosophy and Cognitive Science II
Western & Eastern Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
The book shows how eastern and western perspectives and conceptions can be used to addresses recent topics laying at the crossroad between philosophy and cognitive science. It reports on new points of view and conceptions discussed during the International Conference on Philosophy and Cognitive Science...
Patterns of Rationality
Recurring Inferences in Science, Social Cognition and Religious Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This book proposes an applied epistemological framework for investigating science, social cognition and religious thinking based on inferential patterns that recur in the different domains. It presents human rationality as a tool that allows us to make sense of our (physical or social) surroundings....
by Anthony Brueckner
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
The problem of skepticism about knowledge of the external world has been the centrepiece of epistemology since Descartes. In the last 25 years, there has been a keen focus of interest on the problem, with a number of new insights by the best contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of mind. Anthony...
by Pieranna Garavaso, Nicla Vassallo
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
das Denken) to provide a new analysis of a largely unexplored area of the philosopher's work. Confronting Frege's deeply seated and widely emphasized anti-psychologism, Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance claims that the objective human science that Frege proposed can only be possible...
The Concealed Art of the Soul
Theories of Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
In The Concealed Art of the Soul, Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy. For Indian thinkers, a philosophical treatise about the self should not only reveal the truth about the nature of the soul, but should...
by Walter Menezes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book investigates the central metaphysics and epistemology of Advaita. Although the vastness of Advaita literature has grown to immense proportions, there has been a glaring lacuna in unraveling its philosophical, theological and religious implications. This volume undertakes a thematic search...
by Anil Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
This volume reprints eight of Anil Gupta's essays, some with additional material. The essays bring a refreshing new perspective to central issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Gupta argues that logical interdependence is legitimate, and that it provides a key to...
Conscious Experience
A Logical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
How, theorists ask, can our private experiences guide us to knowledge of a mind-independent reality? Exploring topics in logic, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, Anil Gupta proposes a new answer to this age-old question, explaining how conscious experience contributes to the rationality and content of empirical beliefs.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Featuring chapters on the latest developments in fifteen core subjects in analytic philosophy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Philosophy is an essential guide for all those working in the field today.Introducing its history and looking ahead to new research directions, this companion brings...