Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Ernest Sosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Ernest Sosa extends his distinctive approach to epistemology, intertwining issues concerning the role of the will in judgment and belief with issues of epistemic evaluation. Questions about skepticism and the nature of knowledge are at the forefront. The answers defended are new in their explicit...
by Richard Fumerton
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence...
The Architecture of Reason
The Structure and Substance of Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
The literature on theoretical reason has been dominated by epistemological concerns, treatments of practical reason by ethical concerns. This book overcomes the limitations of dealing with each separately. It sets out a comprehensive theory of rationality applicable to both practical and theoretical...
Forbidden Knowledge
And Other Essays on the Philosophy of Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume collects together eleven essays in epistemology, written during the past three years. They are mostly unpublished, just four of them having appeared previously (numbers two, three, four and eleven). Detailed acknowledgement of prior publication is made in the notes to the relevant chapters....
Epistemic Angst
Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism—the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us.
Duncan Pritchard argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed...
Our Knowledge of the Past
A Philosophy of Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past. Using the analytic tools of contemporary...
Vices of the Mind
From the Intellectual to the Political
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice....
by Jeremy Fantl
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
When should you engage with difficult arguments against your cherished controversial beliefs? The primary conclusion of this book is that your obligations to engage with counterarguments are more limited than is often thought. In some standard situations, you shouldn't engage with difficult counterarguments...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This book offers an array of important perspectives on Kant and nonconceptualism from some of the leading scholars in current Kant studies. As well as discussing the various arguments surrounding Kantian nonconceptualism, the book provides broad insight into the theory of perception, philosophy of...
Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism
Understanding Psychological Nominalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism is the first study of its kind to address a range of realist and idealist views inspired by psychological nominalism. Bringing together premier analytic realists and distinguished defenders of German idealism, it reveals why psychological nominalism is one of...
Custom and Reason in Hume
A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed...
The Logic of Truth
St. Thomas Aquinas's Epistemology and Antonio Livi's Alethic Logic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The “Dictatorship of Relativism”, the dominant culture of the post-modern world with its ideological roots in the Cartesian, Protestant, and French revolutions, is ultimately a revolt against Truth. It argues that man is incapable of knowing reality as reality but merely as physical-mathematical...
Modest Nonconceptualism
Epistemology, Phenomenology, and Content
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The author defends nonconceptualism, the claim that perceptual experience is nonconceptual and has nonconceptual content. Continuing the heated and complex debate surrounding this topic over the past two decades, she offers a sustained defense of a novel version of the view, Modest Nonconceptualism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Philosophers have long been concerned about what we know and how we know it. Increasingly, however, a related question has gained prominence in philosophical discussion: what should we believe and why? This volume brings together twelve new essays that address different aspects of this question. The...