Epistemology category: 1240 books

Cover of Truthlikeness for Multidimensional, Quantitative Cognitive Problems
by I.A. Kieseppä
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

Philosophers of science have produced a variety of definitions for the notion of one sentence, theory or hypothesis being closer to the truth, more verisimilar, or more truthlike than another one. The definitions put forward by philosophers presuppose at least implicitly that the subject matter with...
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Histories and Discourses

Rewriting Constructivism

by Siegfried J. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016

Siegfried J. Schmidt is closely associated in Germany with the cross-disciplinary research programme of Radical Constructivism. In Histories & Discourses he carries out a change of perspective from media and communication studies to studies of culture and the philosophy of language.His 'rewriting' of...
Cover of Episteme Spacecraft Project & Molecular Historicism
by Alphan Vardarlı
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018

Episteme Spacecraft Project & Molecular Historicism In 2010 I wrote a satire piece about the determinisms of religion and science entitled “How to make a spacecraft” where I proposed the fundamentals of the Episteme Spacecraft Project and the three tests. The idea is that we could take the...
Cover of The Pragmatists and the Human Logic of Truth
by Claudine Tiercelin
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

The expression “human logic of truth” is Frank P. Ramsey’s:“Let us therefore try to get an idea of a human logic which shall not attempt to be reducible to formal logic. Logic, we may agree, is concerned not with what men actually believe, but what they ought to believe, or what it would be...
Cover of La libertà è più importante dell'uguaglianza
by Karl R. Popper
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 19, 2012

Nel presente volume sono raccolti i pensieri di filosofia della politica dell’epistemologo Karl R. Popper. Tali pensieri sono raccolti alfabeticamente secondo l’argomento trattato e consentono di cogliere agevolmente i fondamenti epistemologici del liberalismo.. Il liberale è un liberista, ritiene...
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Perceptual Knowledge

An Analytical and Historical Study

by Georges Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This book grew out of the lectures that I prepared for my students in epis­ temology at SUNY College at Brockport beginning in 1974. The conception of the problem of perception and the interpretation of the sense-datum theory and its supporting arguments that are developed in Chapters One through...
Cover of Wholes, Sums and Unities
by A. Meirav
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

In this work, the author formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a new conception of wholes as ‘Unities’, and demonstrates the advantages of this new conception in treating a variety of metaphysical puzzles (such as that of Tibbles the cat). More generally he...
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The Epistemic Lightness of Truth

Deflationism and its Logic

by Cezary Cieśliński
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017

This book analyses and defends the deflationist claim that there is nothing deep about our notion of truth. According to this view, truth is a 'light' and innocent concept, devoid of any essence which could be revealed by scientific inquiry. Cezary Cieśliński considers this claim in light of recent...
Cover of The Ontology of the Middle Way
by P. Fenner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This study is mainly the outcome of work completed as a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Queensland. However, it has been revised in many ways since its preparation in dissertation form. Many people have contributed to the study and I am concerned that I may fail to mention everyone who has assisted...
Cover of Plurality and Perspective in Psychoanalysis
by Adam Rosen-Carole
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

Psychoanalysis is a historical discourse of suffering and healing under conditions of modernity rather than a metaphysical discourse of universal truth, and must be so due to the ontological indeterminacy of psychic life. Demonstrating this proceeds through the substantiation of two primary theses....
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The Puzzle of Perceptual Justification

Conscious experience, Higher-order Beliefs, and Reliable Processes

by Harmen Ghijsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporary theories of perceptual justification that each highlight different factors related to perception, i.e., conscious experience, higher-order beliefs, and reliable processes. The book’s discussion starts from the viewpoint that...
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Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht

Naturlehre des Menschen

by Immanuel Kant
Language: German
Release Date: October 3, 2016

Dieses eBook: "Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Kant grenzt die "pragmatische" Anthropologie von der "physiologischen" ab. Der erste Teil, die "anthropologische...
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Kasimir Twardowski

Gesammelte deutsche Werke

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Language: German
Release Date: December 20, 2016

Kasimir Twardowski (geb. 1866 in Wien, gestorben 1938 in Lemberg) war einerseits eine der wichtigsten Figuren der Brentanoschule und andererseits der Begründer der Lemberg-Warschau-Schule der Philosophie. Der Band enthält sämtliche Schriften, die Twardowski auf Deutsch verfasst hat. Die meisten...
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Wissenschaftstheorie

Eine Einführung

by Stefan Bauberger
Language: German
Release Date: September 21, 2016

Aus den beiden Erkenntnisquellen menschlichen Wissens (empirische Erkenntnis, logische Analyse) entwickelt Bauberger zwei Grundfragen der Wissenschaftstheorie, nach denen sich auch das Lehrbuch gliedert: Zunächst reflektiert die Wissenschaftstheorie die Methoden der empirischen Wissenschaften und liefert...
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