Epistemology category: 1240 books

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de L’Énergie spirituelle de Bergson augmentée d'annexes (Bergson au Japon, Citations, Biographie panoramique). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou...

This work is a trail to navigate inside the human mind. How we reason, judge and behave is the influence of our deep understanding of the world arround us. People differ greatly, but how and why is still a big question. In this book, I am expressing just a part of my broader speculation on mind and...

All religions face the challenge of explaining, in view of God's goodness, the existence of evil and suffering in the world. They must develop theories of the origin and the overcoming of evil and suffering. The explanations in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism of evil and suffering...

Bilan de la recherche sur la psychologie sociale. Dans son ambition de scientificité, la recherche en sciences sociales a été dominée au XXe siècle par une approche positiviste stricte, axée sur le modèle expérimental et la quantification. Dans le dernier quart du siècle, des chercheurs...

Sebastian Rödl undermines a foundational dogma of contemporary philosophy: that knowledge, in order to be objective, must be knowledge of something that is as it is, independent of being known to be so. This profound work revives the thought that knowledge, precisely on account of being objective, is self-knowledge: knowledge knowing itself.

Are beliefs in God and in the soul merely relics of pre-scientific superstition? After all, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesthe so-called age of sciencewe know that science can be proven by its fruits: its helped us split the atom and put men on the moon. Religious faith, on the other hand,...

Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers. Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith aim to change that. Their book guides the reader through the standard theories of knowledge while simultaneously using...

This work contains three essays. The first examines Descartes’ formulation of skepticism in light of Cicero’s Academica. The second and third essays develop my text-based critiques of the assaults on Descartes’ mind-matter dualism by, respectively, the American Pragmatist philosopher, C.S. Peirce,...

It is convenient to divide the theory of knowledge into three sets of problems: 1. the nature of knowledge, certainty and related notions, 2. the nature and validi­ ty of the sources of knowledge, and 3. answers to skeptical arguments. The first set includes questions such as: What is it to know...

As thinkers in the market for knowledge and agents aspiring to morally responsible action, we are inevitably subject to luck. This book presents a comprehensive new theory of luck in light of a critical appraisal of the literature's leading accounts, then brings this new theory to bear on issues in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of action.

Sanford C. Goldberg argues in this volume that epistemic normativity - the sort of normativity implicated in assessments of whether a belief amounts to knowledge - is grounded in the things we properly expect of one another as epistemic subjects. In developing this claim Goldberg argues that epistemic...

Theaetetus by Plato.This book is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge.In the dialogue,Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions on knowledge:knowledge as nothing but perception,knowledge as true judgment,and finally knowledge as a true with an account.Each definations is shown to be unsatisfactory.

««Il più importante intellettuale vivente».» The New York Times Book Review ««Insieme a Marx, Shakespeare e la Bibbia, Chomsky è tra le dieci fonti più citate nella storia della cultura... Un eroe del nostro tempo, una mente eccelsa».» The Guardian «Che cos’è il linguaggio?...

constitutive of reference in laboratory sciences as cultural sign systems and their manipulation and superposition, collectively shared classifications and associated conceptual frameworks,· and various fonns of collective action and social institutions. This raises the question of how much modes...