Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Håvard Løkke
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book is about the epistemological views and arguments of the early Stoics. It discusses such questions as: How is knowledge possible, and what is it? How do we perceive things and acquire notions of them? Should we rely on arguments? How do we come to make so many mistakes?
The author...
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
Expanded Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 1990
Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the alternative in this eloquent presentation of the...
Learning from Words
Testimony as a Source of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge. We rely on the reports of those around us for everything from the ingredients in our food and medicine to the identity of our family members. Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the epistemology of testimony. Despite the multitude of views...
Mind, Values, and Metaphysics
Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan - Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
There are three themed parts to this book: values, ethics and emotions in the first part, epistemology, perception and consciousness in the second part and philosophy of mind and philosophy of language in the third part. Papers in this volume provide links between emotions and values and explore dependency...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive...
Sometimes Always True
Undogmatic Pluralism in Politics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Sometimes Always True aims to resolve three connected problems. First, we need an undogmatic pluralist standpoint in political theory, metaphysics, and epistemology. But genuine pluralism suffers from the contradiction that making room for fundamental differences in outlook means making room for outlooks...
Testimony/Bearing Witness
Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and those who listen? Is bearing witness a concept that is exclusively based in interpersonal relations? Or are there other...
by Steven Horst
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications.
Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the basic units of knowledge and understanding are concepts, beliefs, and argumentative...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Fully updated with new topics covering the latest developments and debates, the second edition of this highly influential text retains its unique combination of accessibility and originality.
Second edition of a highly influential text that has already become a standard in the field, for students...
by Geoffrey Samuel
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book seeks to question the widely held assumption in Europe that to have knowledge of law is simply to have knowledge of rules. There is a knowledge dimension beyond the symbolic which reaches right into the way facts are perceived, constructed and deconstructed. In support of this thesis the...
by Nathan R. Colaner
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Confronting the scientific revolution’s dismissal of Aristotle’s physics and epistemology, Nathan R. Colaner revives this foundational philosopher’s work to expose within it the underpinnings of modern philosophers’ most common intuitions about knowledge. After Aristotle’s picture of reality...
Knowing How
Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Knowledge how to do things is a pervasive and central element of everyday life. Yet it raises many difficult questions that must be answered by philosophers and cognitive scientists aspiring to understand human cognition and agency. What is the connection between knowing how and knowing that? Is knowledge...
Gazing Through a Prism Darkly
Reflections on Merold Westphal's Hermeneutical Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Merold Westphal has been in the foremost ranks of philosophers who proclaim a new postsecular philosophy. By articulating an epistemology sensitive to the realities of cognitive finitude and moral weakness, he defends a wisdom that begins in both humility and commitment, one that always confesses...
Epistemology
A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.