Epistemology category: 1240 books
Free Will and Epistemology
A Defence of the Transcendental Argument for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In the first in-depth study of the transcendental argument for decades, Free Will and Epistemology defends a modern version of the famous transcendental argument for free will: that we could not be justified in undermining a strong notion of free will, as a strong notion of free will is required for...
The Problem of Knowledge
Prolegomena to an Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Finding descriptive titles for books devoted to central issues in philosophy can often become a problem; it is very difficult to be original. Thus the title that I have given to this book is far from novel, having already been used several times by other authors. Nevertheless, I think that I can fairly...
by Ritch Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology—challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation of embodied knowledge, and the...
What to Believe Now
Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
What can we know and what should we believe about today's world? What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues applies the concerns and techniques of epistemology to a wide variety of contemporary issues. Questions about what we can know-and what we should believe-are first addressed...
Beyond Epistemology
New Studies in the Philosophy of Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book approaches Hegel from the standpoint of what we might call the question of knowledge. Hegel, of course, had no "theory of knowledge" in the narrow and abstract sense in which it has come to be understood since Locke and Kant. "The examination of knowledge," he holds,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The sensitivity principle is a compelling idea in epistemology and is typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge. This collection of thirteen new essays constitutes a state-of-the-art discussion of this important principle. Some of the essays build on and strengthen sensitivity-based...
Ernest Sosa
Targeting His Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This volume provides the reader with exclusive insights into Ernest Sosa’s latest ideas as well as main aspects of his philosophical work of the last 50 years. Ernest Sosa, one of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers, is best known for his ground-breaking work in epistemology, and has...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
With this volume of the series *Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science *edited by S. Rahman et al. a challenging dialogue is being continued. The series’ first volume argued that one way to recover the connections between logic, philosophy of sciences, and sciences is to acknowledge...
Historical Epistemology of Space
From Primate Cognition to Spacetime Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This monograph investigates the development of human spatial knowledge by analyzing its elementary structures and studying how it is further shaped by various societal conditions. By taking a thoroughly historical perspective on knowledge and integrating results from various disciplines, this work...
Epistemology and Biblical Theology
From the Pentateuch to Mark’s Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Epistemology and Biblical Theology pursues a coherent theory of knowledge as described across the Pentateuch and Mark's Gospel. As a work from the emerging field of philosophical criticism, this volume explores in each biblical text both narrative and paraenesis to assess what theory of knowledge...
Social Epistemology and Technology
Toward Public Self-Awareness Regarding Technological Mediation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society? How has technology changed the way we acquire knowledge of the world we inhabit? In light of these changes and the direction we are moving, how should the pursuit of knowledge be organized? Social Epistemology...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
This volume is a collation of original contributions from the key actors of a new trend in the contemporary theory of knowledge and belief, that we call “dynamic epistemology”. It brings the works of these researchers under a single umbrella by highlighting the coherence of their current themes,...
Democratic Problem-Solving
Dialogues in Social Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
To what extent is neoliberalism undermining democracy and distorting the values of science? Can and should science be treated as an exemplar for a more dialogic democracy? Are universities and public intellectuals able to develop a more dialogically engaged public? What role should there be for ‘experts’...
by David J. Yount
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book argues against the common view that there are no essential differences between Plato and the Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, on the issues of mysticism, epistemology, and ethics. Beginning by examining the ways in which Plato and Plotinus claim that it is possible to have an ultimate...