Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Daniel C. Dennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical...
Stoic Six Pack 7 (Illustrated)
Memoirs of Socrates, Euthydemus, Stoic Self-control, Gorgias, Protagoras and Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
- Socrates.
Two centuries before the Stoics lived The Sophists, star philosophers who roamed Athens during the fifth century B.C. commanding large fees for speaking and private lessons. They offered practical education, speculation...
by LESLIE STEPHEN
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3) by Leslie Stephen.
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change
Understanding Historical Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Taking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation. In exploring the question posed by the title, the author introduces and applies such organizing concepts...
Metaphysical Grounding
Understanding the Structure of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Some of the most eminent and enduring philosophical questions concern matters of priority: what is prior to what? What 'grounds' what? Is, for instance, matter prior to mind? Recently, a vivid debate has arisen about how such questions have to be understood. Can the relevant notion or notions of priority...
Berkeley
Ideas, Immateralism, and Objective Presence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Berkeley: Ideas, Immaterialism, and Objective Presence offers a novel interpretation of the arc of George Berkeley's philosophical thought, from his theory of vision through his immaterialism and finally to his proof of God's existence. Keota Fields unifies these themes to focus on Berkeley's use...
Kant's Transcendental Deduction
An Analytical-Historical Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Henry E. Allison presents an analytical and historical commentary on Kant`s transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason. He argues that, rather than providing a new solution to an old problem (refuting a global skepticism regarding the objectivity...
by Quassim Cassam
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Human beings are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless and uncritical, and our beliefs, desires, and other attitudes aren't always as they ought rationally to be. Our beliefs can be eccentric, our desires irrational and our hopes hopelessly unrealistic. Our attitudes are influenced...
The Nature of Philosophical Problems
Their Causes and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values and reasons that follow from them conflict. Philosophical problems are forced on us when we try to...
Autonomy and the Situated Self
A Challenge to Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Autonomy and the Situated Self offers a critique of contemporary mainstream bioethics and proposes an alternative framework for the exploration of bioethical issues. It also contrasts two conceptions of autonomy, one based on a liberal model but detached from its political foundation and one that...
Matters of Spirit
J. G. Fichte and the Technological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This book offers a radically new interpretation of the entire philosophy of J. G. Fichte by showing the impact of nineteenth-century psychological techniques and technologies on the formation of his theory of the imagination—the very centerpiece of his philosophical system. By situating Fichte’s...
by J.T.W. Ryall
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive critique of the Kantian principle that ‘objects conform to our cognition’ from the perspective of a Copernican world–view which stands diametrically opposed to Kant’s because founded on the principle that our cognition conforms to objects. Concerning both Kant’s...
Aristotle and Plotinus on the Intellect
Monism and Dualism Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This book emphasizes that Aristotle was aware of the philosophical attempt to subordinate divine Intellect (nou:V) to a prior and absolute principle. Nyvlt argues that Aristotle transforms the Platonic doctrine of Ideal Numbers into an astronomical account of the unmoved movers, which function as...
by Mustafa Kayyali
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
همسات سريالية.. في الهدوء الذي يسبق العاصفة وفي الصمت المطبق الذي لا يطيقه إنسان تُسمع بين الحين والآخر ضحكات من بعيد.. همسات عذبة بين الحين والآخر.. ضحكات عاقل أو صرخات...