Epistemology category: 1240 books

Many contemporary philosophers are interested in the scotistic notion of haecceity or `thisness' because it is relevant to important problems concerning identity and individuation, reference, modality, and propositional attitudes. Haecceity is the only book-length work devoted to this topic. The author...

Infinite regress arguments are part of a philosopher's tool kit of argumentation. But how sharp or strong is this tool? How effectively is it used? The typical presentation of infinite regress arguments throughout history is so succinct and has so many gaps that it is often unclear how an infinite...

Kant's influence on the history of philosophy is vast and protean. The transcendental turn denotes one of its most important forms, defined by the notion that Kant's deepest insight should not be identified with any specific epistemological or metaphysical doctrine, but rather concerns the fundamental...

At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position. Despite the centrality of transcendental idealism in Kant's thinking, in over two hundred years since the publication...

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A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in unanalysed experience; in philosophy we examine the first principles and ultimate questions that concern conscious experience itself. The problem of truth is a problem...

Epistemics of Divine Reality is a philosophical analysis of the epistemic dynamics and foundations of religious philosophies and theological interpretations. Through complex and strong philosophical arguments it unravels the epistemic dynamics behind views such as monism, advaitism, pantheism, panentheism,...

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually...

Uno de los rasgos predominantes del llamado "proceso de secularización" fue la fractura entre el orden racional y el orden religioso, es decir, la desvalorización epistemológica y ética de la religión y su progresivo desalojo de la esfera pública, no solo de la política sino también de la...

Dieciséis ensayos dedicados a la discusión de problemas vinculados a la prueba, la argumentación y la justicia. El libro está dividido en tres partes. La primera analiza la argumentación en materia de hechos y procura esclarecer el rol que cumplen hoy las pruebas científicas en la toma de decisiones...

Cronometrados es una brillante exploración de las formas en que hemos percibido, contenido y ahorrado el tiempo a lo largo de los últimos 250 años, narrado en el estilo ingenioso y entretenido del maravilloso Simon Garfield. No hace mucho medíamos nuestras vidas por el movimiento del sol....

¿De dónde venimos? ¿Somos sólo un montón de partículas elementales y el mundo es un gigantesco contenedor? ¿Qué significa todo esto? El mundo no existe. Pero eso no significa que nada exista. Con vívidos ejemplos y experimentos mentales, agudeza mental y espíritu provocador, el filósofo...

Para los historiadores del pensamiento más sutiles, Descartes no es solo el fundador de la filosofía moderna, según afirma Hegel, sino también el profeta de la ciencia del porvenir. Antes de que René Descartes (1596-1650) proclamase la autonomía de la razón, el pensamiento renacentista se debatía...