Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Reza Assadi
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
This book is an explanation for many events we see around of us. Why some jobs are done very easily and some others sees totally blocked, despite the great effort we made.
In this book I explained a theory about how we move toward history to be here we are. The causality in this book is described...
Dividuations
Theories of Participation
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This book offers an epistemological critique of the concept of the individual and of individuality. It argues that because of our bio(techno)logical entanglements with non-human others, billions of microorganisms and our multiple (in)voluntary participations in socio(techno)logical processes, we...
Theories of Mind
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Intended for introductory classes focusing on philosophy of mind, Theories of Mind includes readings from primary sources, edited to suit the needs of the beginner. Edited selections focus on vivid examples and counter-examples, and meet the needs of instructors concerned with assigning accessible...
by M. Kaplan, I. Hamati-Ataya
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Contemporary philosophy is torn between a reliance on the pragmatic meanings of designated objects and a foundation based on formal theory. This book shows that philosophical knowledge, which no more has a terminal state than an infinite set has a last term, advances when the dialectical relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
François Laruelle proposes a theory of identity rooted in scientific notions of symmetry and chaos, emancipating thought from the philosophical paradigm of Being and reconnecting it with the real world. Unlike most contemporary philosophers, Laruelle does not believe language, history, and the world...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
This edited collection focuses on the moral and social dimensions of ignorance—an undertheorized category in analytic philosophy. Contributors address such issues as the relation between ignorance and deception, ignorance as a moral excuse, ignorance as a legal excuse, and the relation between ignorance...
Adam Smith
Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment. Unique among treatments of Adam Smith, Schliesser's book treats him as a systematic philosopher. Smith was a giant of the Scottish Enlightenment with polymath interests; Schliesser...
The Digital Coloniality of Power
Epistemic Disobedience in the Social Sciences and the Legitimacy of the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Trouble is afoot in Digital Culture and Nerdland. These are, Alexander I. Stingl claims, not the engine of freedom and democracy that they once were hailed to be – this much is already clear in the wake of the snooping and surveillance crises that broke in recent years. Digitalization is but another...
Wisdom
Lost and Rediscovered
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Professor Jim Garrison interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. What is wisdom? How is it distinct from knowledge, truth, logic and science? Is it gut feeling, heart-brain, neurological and cognitive short cuts, tapping into electromagnetic energy, consciousness, all of that or something...
Imperfect Oracle
The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Science and its offshoot, technology, enter into the very fabric of our society in so many ways that we cannot imagine life without them. We are surrounded by crises and debates over climate change, stem-cell research, AIDS, evolutionary theory and “intelligent design,” the use of DNA in solving...
by J. Matheson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Discovering someone disagrees with you is a common occurrence. The question of epistemic significance of disagreement concerns how discovering that another disagrees with you affects the rationality of your beliefs on that topic. This book examines the answers that have been proposed to this question, and presents and defends its own answer.
Manipulated Agents
A Window to Moral Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
What bearing do our histories--our influences, what we have done and what has happened to us--have on our responsibility for the actions we take or consider in the present? This is the question at the center of Alfred R. Mele's examination of moral responsibility, including the moral responsibility...
Visualization
5O Creative Guide To Create Your Dream Life And Manifest Abundance, Creativity And Success!
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2019
This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to create your dream life and manifest abundance, creativity and success. Everyone deserves success; we all want to be great. We want to be recognized when we attend conferences and perhaps a better handshake will do but it all starts with your...
De l'intelligence
Tome II
Language: French
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Extrait : "Commençons par la connaissance des corps. Qu'y a-t-il en nous, lorsque par nos sensations nous prenons connaissance d'un corps extérieur, lorsque, par exemple, éprouvant à la main des sensations tactiles et musculaires de froid, de résistance considérable, de contact uniforme et doux,...