Epistemology category: 1240 books
Academe Master Baiter
An Academic Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2018
The master of baiting a consumer to believe anything is the academic convinced of their own pragmatism, that the convincing of an idea is up to them rather than up to whom they are trying to convince. There is a point at which the wise man is defined for us and the academic is defined for us, the...
Knowing Better
Virtue, Deliberation, and Normative Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Knowing Better presents a novel solution to the problem of reconciling the seemingly conflicting perspectives of ordinary virtue and normative ethics. These two perspectives appear to tell us incompatible things about the practical reasons that guide our deliberation and justify our actions. Normative...
Using Knowledge
On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In Using Knowledge: On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine Ingemar Nordin analyses the philosophical problems and nature of science, technology, and medicine. The main focus of the book is on the structure and dynamics of technological change. What implications do the goals of technology...
by Chase Wrenn
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
What is truth? Is there anything that all truths have in common that makes them true rather than false? Is truth independent of human thought, or does it depend in some way on what we believe or what we would be justified in believing? In what sense, if any, is it better for beliefs or statements...
by J. Agassi
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This work addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. It helps break the isolation of science from the rest of culture by promoting popular science and reasonable history of science. It provides examples...
Beyond the Control of God?
Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract Objects
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The question of God's relationship to abstract objects touches on a number of perennial concerns related to the nature of God. God is typically thought to be an independent and self-sufficient being. Further, God is typically thought to be supremely sovereign such that all reality distinct from God...
Appraising Lakatos
Mathematics, Methodology, and the Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) was one of the protagonists in shaping the "new philosophy of science". More than 25 years after his untimely death, it is time for a critical re-evaluation of his ideas. His main theme of locating rationality within the scientific process appears even more compelling...
by Hans Primas
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the other. Partial Boolean logic and the associated...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
The metaphysics of ordinary objects is an increasingly vibrant field of study for philosophers. This volume gathers insights from a number of leading authors, who together tackle the central issues in contemporary debates about the subject. Their essays engage with topics including composition, persistence,...
Etudes lacaniennes
Psychanalyse, Science, Philosophie
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Ce livre se penche sur les relations fondamentales mais « compliquées » que la psychanalyse entretient avec la philosophie et l’éthique, les sciences et la logique, les pratiques sociales ou encore l’éducation. Résolument, la psychanal yse est présentée ici comme un discours structuré...
by Michel Claessens
Language: French
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Ce petit livre revisite un sujet que nous croyons tous trop bien connaître : l’incompétence. Et pour cause : celle-ci est sans doute la première de nos compétences. Mais il est question ici de cette incompétence que j’appelle « systémique », celle que génère notre société technoscientifique...
by Hanno Sauer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
In this crisply written book, Hanno Sauer offers the first book-length treatment of debunking arguments in ethics, developing an empirically informed and philosophically sophisticated account of genealogical arguments and their significance for the reliability of moral cognition. He breaks new ground...
Causalité
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Le principe de causalité se comprend communément comme une relation de cause à effet, qui permet de formuler des explications concernant un phénomène ou un événement. La causalité est ainsi rattachée à un désir de savoir, à une quête de connaissance de la réalité …
Fondements philosophiques du concept de probabilité
Ouvrage de référence sur la philosophie appliquée aux sciences mathématiques et à la logique
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2015
La probabilité a un aspect à la fois mathématique et philosophique. Le contraste entre les deux est saisissant. Du point de vue mathématique, il existe un consensus presque complet sur la théorie des probabilités, c’est-à-dire, sur les axiomes et sur les théorèmes qui en découlent. Par contre,...