Epistemology category: 1240 books

Cover of Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays
by P. F. Strawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years ago but long since unavailable, Freedom and Resentment collects some of Strawson's most important work and is an ideal introduction to his thinking...
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Basic Structures of Reality

Essays in Meta-Physics

by Colin McGinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011

In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the vantage point of physics. Combining general philosophy with physics, he covers such topics as the definition of matter, the nature of space, motion, gravity, electromagnetic...
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by Arthur Schopenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015

The World as Will and Representation (German: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The main body of the work states at the beginning that it assumes prior knowledge of Immanuel Kant's theories, and Schopenhauer is regarded by...
Cover of James Frederick Ferrier: Selected Writings
by Jennifer Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

This volume contains selections from the philosophical writings of James Frederick Ferrier (18081864). Ferrier was the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews between 1845 and 1864 and he was one of the earliest post-Hegelian British idealists. He develops a system of absolute...
Cover of Moral Perception
by Robert Audi
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013

We can see a theft, hear a lie, and feel a stabbing. These are morally important perceptions. But are they also moral perceptions--distinctively moral responses? In this book, Robert Audi develops an original account of moral perceptions, shows how they figure in human experience, and argues that...
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Truth, Objects, Infinity

New Perspectives on the Philosophy of Paul Benacerraf

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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017

This volume features essays about and by Paul Benacerraf, whose ideas have circulated in the philosophical community since the early nineteen sixties, shaping key areas in the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and epistemology. The book started as a workshop...
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Europe's Indians

Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900

by Vanita Seth, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010

Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of two different colonial spaces, the New World and India, from the late fifteenth...
Cover of Essays in Experimental Logic
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012

14 of the American philosopher's most influential essays appear here, offering profound reflections on many different aspects of knowledge, reality, and epistemology, including the relationship of thought and its subject matter; the antecedents and stimuli of thought, data, and meanings; the objects of thought; and control of ideas by facts.
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The Logical Leap

Induction in Physics

by David Harriman
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010

A groundbreaking solution to the problem of induction, based on Ayn Rand's theory of concepts. Inspired by and expanding on a series of lectures presented by Leonard Peikoff, David Harriman presents a fascinating answer to the problem of induction-the epistemological question of how we can...
Cover of Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry into...
Cover of Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices...
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by Jeremy Fantl, Matthew McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009

Knowledge in an Uncertain World is an exploration of the relation between knowledge, reasons, and justification. According to the primary argument of the book, you can rely on what you know in action and belief, because what you know can be a reason you have and you can rely on the reasons you have....
Cover of Philosophical Writings of Peirce
by Charles S. Peirce
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012

"An excellent, discerning introduction. It should prove a real boon to the student of Peirce." — The Modern SchoolmanCharles S. Peirce was a thinker of great originality and power. Although unpublished in his lifetime, he was recognized as an equal by such men as William James and John Dewey and,...
Cover of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception. It includes sections on the history of the subject, introductions to contemporary issues in the epistemology, ontology and aesthetics of...
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