Epistemology category: 1240 books
by René Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself.
GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history,...
The Half-Life of Facts
Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
New insights from the science of science
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.
Samuel...
Introducing Walter Benjamin
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art. Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his commitment to political transformation of the arts as a means to bring about social change. Benjamin...
Summary of The Black Swan
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Includes Analysis Preview: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a philosophical treatment of Taleb's research on highly improbable, high-impact events. These events, which Taleb calls “Black Swans,”...
Passion of the Western Mind
Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time."
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by Desmond Clarke, René Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled view of contemporary work on the...
Wittgenstein and Plato
Connections, Comparisons and Contrasts
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars of Wittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide new interpretation keys of two of the leading figures of Western thought.
by Benedetto Croce
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2016
The earliest phase of Vico's theory of knowledge takes the form of a direct criticism of and antithesis to the Cartesianism which had guided European thought for more than half a century, and was to maintain its supremacy over mind and spirit for another hundred years.
Descartes, as is well known,...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
In reading these two essays we are apt to be deceived, by their virulent and forcible tone, into believing that the whole matter is a mere cover for hidden fire,-a mere blind of æsthetic discussion concealing a deep and implacable personal feud which demands and will have vengeance. In spite of all...
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
Band 1&2: Schopenhauers Hauptwerk über die Erkenntnistheorie, die Metaphysik, die Ästhetik und die Ethik
Language: German
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Dieses eBook: "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Schopenhauers Hauptwerk "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung" lässt sich in vier Bereiche aufteilen, die jeweils Gegenstand...
by vittorio mazzucconi
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Allo specchio, o all'immagine che vi è riflessa, si associa di solito un'idea di effimera apparenza, di illusione, o di vanità. In realtà esso ha una funzione fondamentale nell'evoluzione dell'uomo, come si vede nel bambino quando egli si riconosce nello specchio, mentre gli animali, salvo un tipo...
by Daria Lebedeva
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The philosophical influence is a concept, a methodological tool and a process worth inquiring, because it sets the frame for the philosopher’s contribution into tradition. This study takes a close look at the philosophical influence on the dependence and inter-dependence between ideas and concepts,...
Baruch Spinoza : Oeuvres complètes et annexes (annotées, illustrées)
L'Éthique, Traité théologico-politique, Court traité, Traité de la réforme de l'entendement ...
Language: French
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Découvrez les oeuvres complètes de Spinoza dans une nouvelle édition 2019 enrichie de plus de 350 notes explicatives, de gravures originales et de nombreuses annexes.
Traductions : Paul Janet, Emile Saisset
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