Epistemology category: 1240 books

Brian Hedden defends a radical view about the relationship between rationality, personal identity, and time. On the standard view, personal identity over time plays a central role in thinking about rationality. This is because, on the standard view, there are rational norms for how a person's attitudes...

This book is about Austrian philosophy leading up to the philosophy of Rudolf Haller. It emerged from a philosophy conference held at the University of Arizona by Keith Lehrer with the support of the University of Arizona and Austrian Cultural Institute. We are grateful to the University of Arizona...

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some knowledge is innate in us, Locke argues that it derives...

In his controversial book An Outline of Philosophy, first published in 1927, Bertrand Russell argues that humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. From our inner-world to the outer-world, from our physical world to the universe, his argument...

How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between...

'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever but modest student, Theaetetus, it explores one of the key issues in philosophy: what is knowledge?...

A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy. Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works—Anthem, The Fountainhead, and *Atlas Shrugged—*have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The...

We human beings had no say in existing—we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains. When our minds and senses are baffled, faith can seem justified—but faith is not...

Básicamente nos interesa indagar en los textos de Deleuze sobre su ontología del devenir y para esto tenemos que remontarnos a la filosofía de los presocráticos y a las propuestas de Aristóteles. Sin embargo, para enganchar este tema con la concepción del tiempo el devenir nos vimos necesitados...

En Platón y Aristóteles, la parte volitiva de la voluntad es nuestra parte humana, el intelecto es nuestra parte divina. Para Descartes, la voluntad está antes de la razón. Sin embargo, la voluntad es la que determina la razón. Spinoza dice que sólo puede ser visto claramente lo simple, lo complejo...

Para Schopenhauer “el mundo es mi representación” y el sujeto es aquel que todo lo conoce y de nadie es conocido. El sujeto es la base del mundo, la condición supuesta de antemano de todo objeto perceptible, pues que nada existe sino para un sujeto. Todo hombre es un sujeto, pero sólo en cuanto...

Su sistema filosófico procede del Empirismo de Locke y del Idealismo de Berkeley. Es un sistema que representa el Escepticismo y el Fenomenismo absoluto. Para Hume las ideas son meras copias de las sensaciones. Escribió los siguientes libros: “A Treatise on Human Nature” (Tratado de la naturaleza...

Kant no se ocupa del origen, sino del conocimiento. Le interesa saber cómo conocemos y hasta qué punto es lícito decir que conocemos. El quiere saber cuál es el valor y cuál es el límite del entendimiento humano que conoce. En la crítica de la razón pura se propone establecer los fundamentos...

Para nuestro estudio, veremos el Empirismo clásico inglés como un conjunto de obras que se dieron durante todo el siglo XVII y XVIII y que pertenecen a los autores de la Filosofía Moderna inaugurada por Descartes, el cual coloca a la razón en el trono de toda verdad, siendo el “yo pienso”...