Epistemology category: 1240 books

One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles...

This book introduces the underlying ideas which have created the constellation of thought commonly referred to as Speculative Realism (SR). In a non-technical style Speculative Realism: An Epitome explores the thought of three contemporary philosophers: Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, and Iain...

A thought-provoking book for the discerning reader of times, searching for all the answers for coasting along with life freely. In the midst of advancing science and technology which is being thrust upon us and being riddled with the constant pressure and stress for performing and managing life’s...

Extrait : "Un système comme celui de la raison pure pratique développé ici par la critique de cette raison, a-t-il coûté beaucoup ou peu de peine, surtout pour ne pas manquer le vrai point de vue d'où l'ensemble peut en être exactement esquissé (vorgezeichnet)?..."

First published in 1910, Philosophical Essays is one of Bertrand Russell’s earliest works and marks an important period in the evolution of thought of one of the world’s most influential thinkers. This selection of seven essays displays Russell's incisiveness and brilliance of exposition in the...

Wenn wir mit der Welt, wie sie ist und den Menschen, so wie sie sind, nicht klarkommen, nennt ihr es "Krankheit", aber die, die sich anpassen, sich damit wohl fühlen und keine Veränderung herbeisehnen, sind "normal" ? ...------- Wunder passieren ständig um uns herum. Leider...

“This report is the product of an expert working group acting under mandate from the European Commission Directorate General for Research (DG RTD), on the topic of European science and governance. We interpreted our mandate to have three main concerns: - how to respond to the widely-recognised problem...

This book is the second in the series on how to develop a “better” worldview, and thence a better understanding of how normal people can understand the relationship (and current lack thereof) between the natural sciences and religion. It is also so that scientists can venture onto the field of...

This book puts forward a much-needed reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the Critique of Pure Reason. It is widely recognized that Kant's theoretical philosophy aims to answer skepticism and reform metaphysics--Michael Forster makes...

While Immanuel Kants Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important and influential philosophical works in the history of Western thought, it is also known for being as inaccessible as it is brilliantan unreadable masterpiece. And as a cardinal text for students of philosophy in both the graduate...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy...

The essence of Hume’s eighteenth-century philosophy was that all the sciences were ‘dependent on the science of man’, and that the foundations of any such science need to rest on experience and observation. This title, first published in 1932, examines in detail how Hume interpreted ‘the science...