Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Mario Bunge
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The causal problem has become topical once again. While we are no longer causalists or believers in the universal truth of the causal principle we continue to think of causes and effects, as well as of causal and noncausal relations among them. Instead of becoming indeterminists we have enlarged determinism...
Images of Empiricism
Essays on Science and Stances, with a Reply from Bas C. van Fraassen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
Thirteen specially written essays discuss topics from the work of Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the most important contemporary philosophers of science. The central and unifying theme of the volume is empiricism, an approach which van Fraassen developed most fully in The Scientific Image and The Empirical...
The Art of Deception
An Introduction to Critical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Can you tell when you're being deceived?This classic work on critical thinking - now fully updated and revised - uses a novel approach to teach the basics of informal logic. On the assumption that "it takes one to know one," the authors have written the book from the point of view of someone...
On The Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals; Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals; The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are Immanuel Kant's three most important works on the Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics. Included are Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals, and The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics. Kant's Fundamental Principles...
by Robert J. Fogelin
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks.
Arguing that these criticisms have--from...
by Mario Livio
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind—it can so perfectly explain the physical world.
Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about...
by Donald R. Miklich
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Scientific knowledge is vastly and overwhelmingly humanity's greatest achievement. Furthermore, if humanity is to survive, either on this planet or perhaps eventually elsewhere in the universe, it will do so only because of scientific knowledge.Nevertheless, scientific knowledge is not truth.To...
by James Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
The Day the Universe Changed presents a sweeping view of the history of science, technology, and human civilization and examines the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him.
James Burke examines eight periods in history...
Michael Polanyi and His Generation
Origins of the Social Construction of Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially based enterprise that does not rely on empiricism...
Kant's Organicism
Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Because it laid the foundation for nearly all subsequent epistemologies, Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason has overshadowed his other interests in natural history and the life sciences, which scholars have long considered as separate from his rigorous theoretical philosophy—until now. In...
by Loana Liccioli
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Affiancando ardite ipotesi ai riscontri anatomico-osservativi, Descartes propone per lo studio della fisiologia il modello di un automa meccanico, che permette di riprodurre le funzioni psicofisiche dell’uomo. In questo modo il corpo umano diviene l’espressione di un continuo modificarsi della...
Perceptual Intelligence
The Brain's Secret to Seeing Past Illusion, Misperception, and Self-Deception
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
· The author, dubbed “America’s TV eye doctor,” has often appeared on television programs including Dr Phil, Good Morning America, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and the NBC Nightly News
· The author has pioneered treatments in vision correction, has published more than 100 scientific, peer-reviewed...
Spinoza: Ethics
Proved in Geometrical Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most significant texts of the early modern period, important to history, philosophy, Jewish studies and religious studies. It had a major influence on Enlightenment thinkers and the development of the modern world. In Ethics, Spinoza addresses the most fundamental perennial...
by Vilém Flusser
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
In On Doubt, Vilém Flusser refines Martin Heidegger’s famous declaration that “language is the dwelling of Being.” For Flusser, “the word is the dwelling of being,” because in fact, in the beginning, there was the word.
On Doubt is a treatise on the human intellect, its relation...