Epistemology category: 1240 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
On the Content and Object of Presentations
A Psychological Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Twardowski's little book - of which I here offer a translation - is one of the most remarkable works in the history of modern philosophy. It is concise, clear, and - in Findlay's words - "amazingly rich in ideas. "l It is therefore a paradigm of what some contemporary philosophers approvingly...
Working in the 21st Century: Policies for Economic Growth Through Training, Opportunity and Education
Policies for Economic Growth Through Training, Opportunity and Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
"More and better jobs" is the underlying theme of this insightful new book. David Levine analyzes the current labor market in the U.S. and concludes that social policy must change to cope with the realities of the new economy. Although market forces are now moving U.S. enterprise toward...
Grounds for Respect
Particularism, Universalism, and Communal Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
In recent years traditional foundations of respect for others have been challenged on the basis that universal grounds — the assumption that we share a common humanity — have resulted in the exclusion of particular others from full moral consideration or respect. This current questioning of the...
Latin American Perspectives on Globalization
Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...
by Stephen P. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu’s...
Reclaiming Reality
A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. It is designed to "underlabour" both for the sciences, especially the human sciences,...
by Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
The English Utilitarians of whom I am about to give some account were a group of men who for three generations had a conspicuous influence upon English thought and political action. Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and John Stuart Mill were successively their leaders; and I shall speak of each in turn....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This book is a thorough treatise concerned with coherence and its significance in legal reasoning. The individual chapters present the topic from the general philosophical perspective, the perspective of legal-theory as well as the viewpoint of cognitive sciences and the research on artificial intelligence...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
What is truth? Philosophers are interested in a range of issues involving the concept of truth beginning with what sorts of things can be true. This is a collection of eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twenty of the most promising young scholars working on truth today.
by D.M. Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For the past four or five years much of my thinking has centered up on the relationship of symbolic forms to philosophic imagination and interpretation. As one whose own philosophic speculations began at. the end of a cultural epoch under methodologies dominated either by neo-Kantianism or schools...
Donald Davidson's Triangulation Argument
A Philosophical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
According to many commentators, Davidson’s earlier work on philosophy of action and truth-theoretic semantics is the basis for his reputation, and his later forays into broader metaphysical and epistemological issues, and eventually into what became known as the triangulation argument, are much...
Real Change Is Incremental
Reflections on What We Know, What We Do and How Little Things Make a Big Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Real Change is Incremental is a broad-ranging collection of essays by a writer with broad-ranging interests, including magic, philosophy, poetry, comedy, and international development. An exploration of change and ideas through a series of reflections on knowledge, experience, and how we see the world,...
Structures and Algorithms
Mathematics and the Nature of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book explains exactly what human knowledge is. The key concepts in this book are structures and algorithms, i.e., what the readers “see” and how they make use of what they see. Thus in comparison with some other books on the philosophy (or methodology) of science, which employ a syntactic...