Epistemology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863919Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

The sensitivity principle is a compelling idea in epistemology and is typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge. This collection of thirteen new essays constitutes a state-of-the-art discussion of this important principle. Some of...

How do we come to know metaphysical truths? How does metaphysical inquiry work? Are metaphysical debates substantial? These are the questions which characterize metametaphysics. This book, the first systematic student introduction dedicated to...

A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and...

This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed. The contributors, using different intellectual dynamics, explore the existing epistemological dominance of the West-from architecture to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904987642Author Matti SintonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 402g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Springer Book ArchivesBook InformationISBN 9789401764735Author Ervin LaszloFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint SpringerPublisher Springer

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913881061Author Constantin VaughnFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Winsor PublishingPublisher Winsor PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

The first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism: an analytical treatment of one of the most intriguing and fundamental questions in contemporary analytic metaphysics: Could there have been nothing at all? No physical universe, no people, no living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789523690288Author Kenneth R WestphalFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Helsinki University PressPublisher Helsinki University PressWeight(grams) 170g

What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation.Book InformationISBN...

This volume offers a wide range of both reconstructions of Nikolai Vasiliev's original logical ideas and their implementations in the modern logic and philosophy. A collection of works put together through the international workshop "Nikolai...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912721108Author David W GoodingFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Myrtlefield HousePublisher Myrtlefield HouseWeight(grams) 721g

Thinking about God is historical thinking and that in two senses : the idea of God has a history, and those who think about God think through an historically formed mind. The task of the theologian, is not the attempt to move outside his historicity -...

The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force investigates the concept of force through various 'episodes' in the history of philosophy. The author argues that force arises on the basis of the distinction of reality and mere appearance. The book looks at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604592740Author Immanuel KantFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 562g

The purpose of the multilevel approach is to understand individual behaviors taking into account the social context in which they occur. This book deals with concepts and methods underlying this approach. This book is of interest to a broad audience of...

This book confronts the threats of epistemic relativism and Pyrrhonian scepticism to analytic philosophy. Epistemic relativists reject absolute notions of knowledge and justification, while sceptics claim that knowledge and justification of any kind are...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783942575058Author Wang NanshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Canut PublishersPublisher Canut PublishersWeight(grams) 619g

The main purpose of the present volume is to advance our understanding of the notions of knowledge and context, the connections between them and the ways in which they can be modeled, in particular formalized - a question of prime importance and utmost...

Philosophers have long been concerned about what we know and how we know it. Increasingly, however, a related question has gained prominence in philosophical discussion: what should we believe and why? This volume brings together twelve new essays that...

This book analyses the concept of disease, as defined in the context of evolutionary medicine. Upon introducing the reader to evolutionary medicine in its current form and describing its approach to disease instances, the book leverages thoughts and...

3 the observation focus on aggregate or individual behaviours? Will the meth ods used to identify the relationships between the values measured be the same or totally different depending on the level of observation? Can several aggregation levels be...

This book shows that, far from incorporating everything into an all-consuming necessity, Hegel's philosophy requires the novelty of unexpected contingencies to maintain its systematic pretensions. John Burbidge explores how Hegel applied this approach to...

Markus Seidel provides a detailed critique of epistemic relativism in the sociology of scientific knowledge. In addition to scrutinizing the main arguments for epistemic relativism he provides an absolutist account that nevertheless aims at integrating...

Solipsism is one of the philosophical thesis or ideas that has generally been regarded as highly implausible, or even crazy. The view that the world is "my world" in the sense that nothing exists independently of my mind, thought, and/or...

This work investigates intuitions' nature, demonstrating how philosophers can best use them in epistemology. First, the author considers several paradigmatic thought experiments in epistemology that depict the appeal to intuition. He then argues that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934612Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Belief is a fundamental concept within many branches of contemporary philosophy and an important subject in its own right. This volume comprises 11 original essays on belief written by a range of the best authors in the field.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938090066Author Hugh G. PetrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Living Control Systems PublishingPublisher Living Control Systems...

The philosophy of the humanistic sciences has been a blind-spot in analytic philosophy. This book argues that by adopting an appropriate pragmatic analysis of explanation and interpretation it is possible to show that scientific practice of humanistic...

According to the received view in epistemology, inferential knowledge from non-knowledge is impossible - that is, in order for a subject to know the conclusion of their inference, they must know the essential premises from which that conclusion is drawn...

This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems. Representation is important because it allows scientists to study a model to discover features of reality. The authors provide a...

This book provides a historical analysis of the philosophical problem of individuation, and a new trajectory in its treatment. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, C.S. Peirce and Gilbert Simondon, the problem of individuation is taken into the realm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782957784134Author Adeyemi AdedapoFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint A. AdedapoPublisher A. AdedapoWeight(grams) 586g

This book investigates how collaborative scientific practice yields scientific knowledge. At a time when most of today's scientific knowledge is created in research groups, the author reconsiders the social character of science to address the question of...

This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge. The contributors extend contemporary Western epistemology in novel directions, through investigating and...

If we want to be autonomous, what do we want? The author shows that contemporary value-neutral and metaphysically economical conceptions of autonomy, such as that of Harry Frankfurt, face a serious problem. Drawing on Plato, Augustine, and Kant, this...

This book offers a challenge to certain epistemic features of belief, resulting in a unified and coherent picture of the epistemology of belief. The author examines current ideas in a number of areas, beginning with the truth-directed nature of belief in...