Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Paul Q. Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This title, first published in 1975, contains two complimentary studies by Paul Q. Hirst: the first based on Claude Bernard’s theory of scientific knowledge, and the second concerning Emile Durkheim’s attempt to provide a philosophical foundation for a scientific sociology in The Rules of Sociological...
by Peter Unger
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's articles have been less widely accessible. These two volumes of Unger's Philosophical Papers include articles spanning more than 35 years of Unger's long and fruitful career. Dividing the articles thematically, this first volume...
Rationality and the Good
Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
For over thirty years, Robert Audi has produced important work in ethics, epistemology, and the theory of action. This volume features thirteen new critical essays on Audi by a distinguished group of authors: Fred Adams, William Alston, Laurence BonJour, Roger Crisp, Elizabeth Fricker, Bernard Gert,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
When you believe something for a good reason, your belief is in a position to be justified, rational, responsible, or to count as knowledge. But what is the nature of this thing that can make such a difference? Traditionally, epistemologists thought of epistemic normative notions, such as reasons,...
Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology
Performance Apophatics
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book explores the intersection between apophaticism - negative theology - and performance. While apophaticism in literature and critical theory may have had its heyday in the heady debates about negative theology and deconstruction in the 1990s, negative ways of knowing and speaking have continued...
Testimony
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
The epistemology of testimony has experienced a growth in interest over the last twenty-five years that has been matched by few, if any, other areas of philosophy. Testimony: A Philosophical Introduction provides an epistemology of testimony that surveys this rapidly growing research area while incorporating...
Education's Epistemology
Rationality, Diversity, and Critical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Education's Epistemology extends and further defends Harvey Siegel's "reasons conception" of critical thinking. It analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality, and the dispositions and character traits that constitute the "critical spirit," that are central to a proper account of critical thinking;...
Hume's Problem Solved
The Optimality of Meta-Induction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
A new approach to Hume's problem of induction that justifies the optimality of induction at the level of meta-induction.
Hume's problem of justifying induction has been among epistemology's greatest challenges for centuries. In this book, Gerhard Schurz proposes a new approach to Hume's problem....
Principles of an Epistemology of Values
The permutation of collective cohesion and motivation
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This book addresses the need to create an “axiological epistemology”. This term refers to knowledge of what is axiological, i.e. everything related to human values, and the know-how on how to manage the study of values. In knowledge societies, we know and live axiological projects that we do...
Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures
The Case of Heidegger and Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
By systematically uncovering and comprehensively examining the epistemological implications of Heidegger's history of being and Foucault's archaeology of discursive formations, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures shows how Heidegger and Foucault significantly expand the notions of knowledge and thought....
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
This file includes: The Critique of Pure Reason; The Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; and The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics. According to Wikipedia: "Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 12 February 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian...
Legal Knowledge and Analogy
Fragments of Legal Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
3 of law as an object that has always already been there, systematic and com plete. Quite the contrary. Some, indeed practically all of us, reject this sort of epistemology of law, and where the hypothesis of the coherence of the legal universe is put forward, this is in order to define it in very...
by Catherine Z. Elgin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.
Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can...
by Richard Foley
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her belief is true, but it isn't knowledge. This is a classic illustration of a central problem in epistemology: determining what knowledge...