Epistemology category: 1240 books
Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht
Naturlehre des Menschen
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Kant grenzt die "pragmatische" Anthropologie von der "physiologischen" ab. Der erste Teil, die "anthropologische Didaktik", handelt von der generellen Menschenkenntnis. Dieser Teil ist entsprechend den menschlichen Grundvermögen (Erkenntnisvermögen, Begehrungsvermögen...
Endliches und ewiges Sein
Ein Grundriss der Ontologie (mit dem Denken von Thomas von Aquin, Husserl und Heidegger)
Language: German
Release Date: April 20, 2017
"Endliches und ewiges Sein" ist ein Grundriss der Ontologie. Edith Stein setzte sich darin mit dem Denken von Thomas von Aquin, Husserl und Heidegger auseinander. Inhalt: Die Frage nach dem Sein Akt und Potenz als Seinsweisen Wesenhaftes und wirkliches Sein Wesen – Substanz, Form und Stoff...
Philosophische Begründung der Psychologie und der Geisteswissenschaften
Psychische Kausalität, Individuum und Gemeinschaft
Language: German
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Inhalt: Psychische Kausalität Kausalität im Bereich der reinen Erlebnisse Psychische Realität...
Zum Problem der Einfühlung
Das Wesen der Einfühlungsakte, Die Konstitution des psychophysischen Individuums & Einfühlung als Verstehen geistiger Personen
Language: German
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Aus dem Buch: "Wir haben bisher immer vom reinen Ich als dem sonst unbeschreiblichen qualitätlosen...
by John Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1970
In his preface Mr Wilson writes 'I feel that a great many adults … would do better to spend less time in simply accepting the concepts of others uncritically, and more time in learning how to analyse concepts in general'. Mr Wilson starts by describing the techniques of conceptual analysis. He then...
What Does It All Mean?
A Humanistic Account of Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
As a young man Bill Adams travelled the world teaching US citizens abroad on behalf of a large state university on the East Coast. Back home he reflected that if there were answers to the great questions of life, then he’d not found them - not in India, in Europe, in China, or Japan. In time he came...
A Short History of Truth
Consolations for a Post-Truth World
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex history of truth and falsehood. It identifies ten types of supposed truth and explains how easily...
Fictions of Knowledge
Fact, Evidence, Doubt
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt.
Talking to Our Selves
Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the unconscious mind. Much philosophical theorizing maintains that the exercise of morally responsible agency consists in judgment and behavior...
by Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The New Organum, full original title "Novum Organum Scientiarum" (‘new instrument of science’), is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin and published in 1620. The title is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum...
by Hugo Mercier
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
If reason is so useful and reliable, why didn’t it evolve in other animals and why do humans produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber argue that reason is not geared to solitary use. It evolved to help justify our beliefs to others, evaluate their arguments, and better exploit our uniquely rich social environment.
by Matteo, Borri
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Nel 1906 il medico tedesco Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer descrisse un processo di disfacimento cellulare mai ancora osservato. Nel 1910 Emil Kraepelin, per l’ottava edizione del suo manuale di psichiatria, coniò l’espressione "Alzheimerische Krankheit", denominando così una patologia destinata a diventare...
Intenzione e responsabilità
La consistenza etica dell'architettura contemporanea
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Tra cumuli di teorie sempre più evanescenti, l’architettura contemporanea vive una convulsa caccia alla legittimazione: così, forse inaspettatamente, tra pensieri progettuali ridotti a espressioni di pura preferenza e azioni progettuali dalle incerte ma concrete conseguenze, l’etica ne è diventata...
Lonergan in the World
Self-Appropriation, Otherness, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In his philosophical classic Insight, Catholic philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan introduced the concept of self-appropriation – the personal search for knowledge of the self, and through that of the world – as the basis for systematic philosophical investigation.
In Lonergan in...