Epistemology category: 1240 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Arturo Carsetti According to molecular Biology, true invariance (life) can exist only within the framework of ongoing autonomous morphogenesis and vice versa. With respect to this secret dialectics, life and cognition appear as indissolubly interlinked. In this sense, for instance, the inner articulation...
Epistemic Complexity and Knowledge Construction
Morphogenesis, symbolic dynamics and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The volume as its first target aims at clarifying that peculiar entanglement of complexity, causality, meaning, emergence and intentionality that characterises the unfolding of the "natural forms" of human cognition
As is well known, cognition is not only a self-organising process....
by Steven L. Bindeman, Karl Javorszky
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The present version is published for copyright reasons only. We shall address the contents on having recorded the present state of the project. We go through the subject of silence, based on many aspects and many perspectives. Overview treatise
Steven L. Bindeman, until his retirement in Dec....
by Joseph Zammit
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The Twilight of the Ephemeral Magicians is a philosophy for the future. It takes us on that age-old quest to try to understand what ‘knowledge’, ‘truth’ and ‘life’ are all about. We live in a world dominated by those who presume to know what is good for us and who speak to us as if they...
The Pedagogic Mission
An Engagement with Ancient Greek Philosophical Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
The Pedagogic Mission offers a focused pedagogic exegesis of the philosophies of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates and Plato. Encrypted in their philosophical practices is a pedagogical mission which structures their manner of engagement. The linguistic style, epistemological assumptions, and metaphysical...
Experience and Beyond
The Outline of A Darwinian Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book presents a persuasive argument in favour of evolutionary naturalism and outlines what such a stance means for our capacity of observation and understanding reality. The author discusses how our capacity of knowledge is adapted to handle sensory information about the environment in the light...
by David Hume
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
The New Science of Giambattista Vico
Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the addition of "Practic of the New Science"
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory. It represents the most ambitious attempt before Comte at comprehensive science of human society and the most profound analysis of the class struggle prior to Marx.
Machiavelli and Epicureanism
An Investigation into the Origins of Early Modern Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
This book investigates the influence of Epicurean physics on the argument developed in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. Towards this end, the full philosophical history and origins of atomist philosophy are investigated during the first three chapters. Plato’s critique of the atomist philosophy,...
Philosophy, Science, and History
A Guide and Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader is a compact overview of the history and philosophy of science that aims to introduce students to the groundwork of the field, and to stimulate innovative research. The general introduction focuses on scientific theory change, assessment, discovery,...
The Concept of Nature
Tarner Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
When The Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead was first published in 1920 it was declared to be one of the most important works on the relation between philosophy and science for many years, and several generations later it continues to deserve careful attention. Whitehead explores the fundamental...
Rescuing Reason
A Critique of Anti-Rationalist Views of Science and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"? Or does it result from interplay...
by Epicurus, George K. Strodach
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
The brilliant writings of a highly influential Greek philosopher, with a foreword by Daniel Klein, author of Travels with Epicurus
The teachings of Epicurus—about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and friendship—attracted legions of adherents...
Invisible Language
Its Incalculable Significance for Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy reveals that although the use of language is visible or audible, the medium employed boasts neither of these attributes. Garth L. Hallet suggests that from Plato until now, the intangibility of language has exercised a far more profound...