Epistemology category: 1240 books

Considero imprescindible partir de que el sistema hegeliano refleja un pensamiento dialéctico, es decir, oposición-síntesis, lo que implica que, este sistema, tenga carácter de apertura.Su sistema parte pues, del cuestionamiento que hace a la tradición filosófica sobre el movimiento de la realidad,...

Renato Descartes parte del sujeto, del mí mismo, y le atribuye la capacidad del conocimiento. Su Cogito, ergo sum (pienso, luego existo) es la suprema síntesis de su racionalismo. Descartes inicia su duda con un razonamiento que le conduce al conocimiento. Esa duda tiene sus requisitos, tiene su...

División de la Semiósis: Semántico: Denotar: término semántico que implica la acción de mostrar la representación gráfica de una persona, animal, objeto o, incluso, de un concepto. Denotación: Debe ser exclusiva, objetiva, explícita y precisa. Hay palabras que son denotativas, representan...

El pensamiento idealista cartesiano es reconocido por los historiadores de la filosofía como el puente entre el Renacimiento y la Edad Moderna. El Renacimiento se interesó en la subjetividad del hombre, enfocando la necesidad de su estudio en la búsqueda de sí mismo. Descartes, por su parte, reconoce...

De la misma manera, presentamos la inconmensurabilidad de Thomas Khun, realismo y pluralismo epistemológicos, realismo e inconmensurabilidad de Ana Rosa Pérez Ransanz, la perpectiva naturalista de Rudner Richard, fenomenología existencial y gnoseologia de Schutz, filosofía del lenguaje, semiosis,...

Heidegger, como Husserl, estuvo influenciado sobre todo por los presocráticos de la filosofía griega, por el filósofo danés Sören Kierkegaard, y por el filósofo alemán Friedrich Nietzsche. En su obra más importante e influyente, Ser y tiempo (1927), Heidegger se preocupó de lo que consideraba...

Published very shortly before his death in February 1976, Meaning is the culmination of Michael Polanyi's philosophic endeavors. With the assistance of Harry Prosch, Polanyi goes beyond his earlier critique of scientific "objectivity" to investigate meaning as founded upon the imaginative...

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

When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror...

Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain the appearance, they say, that there are...

Have you ever wondered about the difference between Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism and which influenced the other? Do you know where Post-modernism stops and Post-structuralism begins? Would you like to? From Platonism to New Historicism, humankind is constantly coming up with fresh schools of...

The mind operates as a trinity. We speak and listen and monitor the dialog as well. This must be true for all sentient beings and is not subject to refutation. it is plainly so. Consequently, God's mind and man's share this common trait. An analysis of the vision of Ezekiel equates the vision to a...

The essay deals with perception in five chapters. It opens with a brief preface highlighting the basic subject. Chapter 1 deals with problems in physical perception and how these can define our impressions. Chapter 2 deals with promises between others and to ourselves. Intent influences the validity...

When we make claims to each other, we're asserting. But what does it take to assert well? Do we need to know what we're talking about? This book argues that we don't. In fact, it argues that in some special contexts, we can lie.