Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Justin Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
The settlement of Australia and New Zealand were among the most ambitions experiments in social engineering ever attempted. But the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who made it happen are often absent from the standard histories.
This is my case for including ordinary people in national...
by Damien Ba'al
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A Disturbing Lack of Faith is a short essay, which takes a critical look at the concepts of gods and faith. Argued from a position of skepticism, the flawed logic of these religious concepts fail with the application of reason. All the usual fallacies of apologetics are preemptively torn apart. When...
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This is the only book which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones. The culmination of the book is the proposition of research to discover and understand the natural underlying level of organization which produces the descriptive commonality...
The Lively Science
Remodeling Human Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Wonder why studies you read about your world usually dont get who you are and how you really live? Frustrated that “the numbers” dont solve the problem? Does it bother you that policies and programs, more often than not, dont work like theyre supposed to? People, organizations, countriesthey rely...
by Nicholas Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute...
Creatively Undecided
Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to different conclusions.
By turning our attention to ambiguity and indecision in science, Menachem...
The Climate Change Debate
An Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Of the two kinds of philosophical questions – epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them.
The Congruent Nature of Other Minds
A Response to the Radical Empiricism of William James
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
"Jessa explores the issue with well prepared research and quotes that she shares in her essay. I am delighted in the way the author transforms this difficult matter into an easily digestible short work. " --Martin Beltov, Codices Quality Book Reviews
A philosophical discussion regarding...
Living Yogacara
An Introduction to Consciousness-Only Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Yogacara is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology that stems from the early Indian Mahayana Buddhist tradition. The Yogacara view is based on the fundamental truth that there is nothing in the realm of human experience that is not interpreted by and dependent upon the mind.
Yogacara...
Rationality for Mortals
How People Cope with Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective, human behavior is more rational...
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE & Other Works on the Human Thought Process
Including Leibniz's New Essays; Essays in Experimental Logic; Human Nature & Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This unique collection of "CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE & Other Works on the Human Thought Process" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Table of Contents: How We Think Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding Essays in Experimental Logic Creative...
Aspiration
The Agency of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example, becoming parents, embarking on careers, or acquiring a passion for music or politics. How can such activity...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This highly original examination of Kenneth Burke’s thought grapples with these ostensibly contradictory concepts as opportunities for invention, revision, and, importantly,...
Mobile Computer Usability
An Organizational Personality Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book explains how mobile computer usability is shaped by the increasing integration of personal circumstances in organization. It represents an attempt to conceptualize an alternative model of mobile computer usability. It is motivated by the author’s conviction that we do not yet have an adequate...