Epistemology category: 1240 books
Consciousness and the Self
New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
'I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception.' These famous words of David Hume, on his inability to perceive the self, set the stage for JeeLoo Liu and John Perry's collection of essays on self-awareness and self-knowledge. This volume...
Seeing and Saying
The Language of Perception and the Representational View of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Imagine you are sitting at Starbuck glancing at the blue coffee mug in front of you. The mug is blue on the outside, white on the inside. It's large for a mug. And it's nearly full of freshly made coffee. In the envisaged case, you see all those aspects of the scene in front of you, but it remains...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding...
Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen
The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In this classic work, best-selling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations, but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to provide any justification for...
by John S. Pletz
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The Liar's Non-Paradox explains why the Liar's Paradox is not a paradox of all because the Liar sentence does not have truth potential and cannot be confirmed. Its superficially convincing contradiction ("If 'This sentence is false' is true, then it is false, but if it is false,...
Interpretation and Intellectual Change
Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"This volume deals with the development of Chinese hermeneutics, or exegetic systems, from their beginnings to the twentieth century. The contributors address critical issues in the study of Chinese hermeneutics by focusing on key periods during which the hermeneutic tradition in China underwent...
Cosmology
Philosophy & Physics
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
In modern philosophy of nature the World is unified and holistic. Cosmic Universe and Human History, microcosm and macrocosm, inorganic and living matter coexist and form a unique unity manifested in multiple forms. The Physical and the Mental constitute the form and the content of the World.The...
The Five Senses
A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly,...
Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism, and Beyond
Four Days in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
What is truth, goodness, or beauty? Can we really define these concepts without the idea of a frame of reference? In the newest addition to the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, Michael Krausz presents fictional dialogues between four former classmates who hold significantly different views about...
Looking into Mind
How to Recognize Who You Are and How You Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Looking into Mind is an invitation to discover and explore the vital core of one's own mind from two standpoints. From the practical side, it shows how to use meditation to experience the mind directly, free of any images. From the intellectual side, its compelling. accessible look into our everyday...
Scientific Progress
A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied...
by Ralph Wedgwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of the concept of rationality. The Value of Rationality is designed as the first instalment of a trilogy - to be followed by accounts of the requirements of rationality that apply specifically to beliefs and choices. The central claim of the book is that rationality...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Trust is central to our social lives. We know by trusting what others tell us. We act on that basis, and on the basis of trust in their promises and implicit commitments. So trust underpins both epistemic and practical cooperation and is key to philosophical debates on the conditions of its possibility....
by Jason Waller
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book concerns the nature of time and ordinary cases of persistence in Spinoza. The author argues for three major interpretive claims. First, that Spinoza is committed to an eternalist theory of time whereby all things (whether they seem to be past, present, or future) are equally real. Second,...