Epistemology

In Selves in Doubt, Eli Hirsch explores the essential role of the first-person concept in a rational life, and how this relates to the nature of a rational language. Hirsch relates self-knowledge to knowledge of other selves and addresses issues of...

Causality, Counterfactuals, and Belief explores means-end derivations of the logics of default conditionals and counterfactuals, modal idealism about possible worlds, and the royal rule. Author Franz Huber also looks closely at conditions under which...

This volume tackles an array of complex and interrelated phenomena which are usually referred to as the post-truth condition - from confirmation bias to science denialism, misinformation, and the rise of polarized 'epistemic tribes' on social media...

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This book introduces readers to the topic of misinformation. In recent years, many people have become worried about fake news, misinformation, disinformation, and the like. Is this concern justified or a panic over nothing? Misinformation: The Basics...

Illuminates Wittgenstein's religious epistemology-bridging faith, reason, and cultural understanding across disciplines Wittgenstein and the Epistemology of Religion offers the first comprehensive exploration of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of...

Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765 contains thirty-four philosophical texts about slavery composed in Europe and America between 1500 and 1765. These readings demonstrate that debates about slavery deserve a central place in the history of...

This book presents a comprehensive collection of transformative theories that delve into the practicalities of personal growth, societal change, and global improvement. It is both a guide and a philosophical roadmap, offering readers insight into the...

First published in 1930, The Art of Study is addressed to all who are old enough and young enough to regard the winning of knowledge as fine art. Like other arts, it can be helped by science. The book discusses reasons for the success and failure of...

The problem of knowledge, as Aristotle commented in metaphysics, is inscribed in human nature. We all desire to know and understand our reality, the world and God who transcends it. From ancient times it has been a study that, linked to the mystery and...

The problem of knowledge, as Aristotle commented in metaphysics, is inscribed in human nature. We all desire to know and understand our reality, the world and God who transcends it. From ancient times it has been a study that, linked to the mystery and...

This book proposes a new set of concepts in epistemology and philosophy of science and provides a novel account of theory change using the notions of epistemic vulnerability, asymmetric fallibilism, and epistemic verisimilitude in a non-Popperian sense...

Presenting the main concepts and key assumptions of knowledge-first theses, Arturs Logins' authoritative and engaging introduction critically evaluates some of the most debated issues in recent epistemology. Initiated by Timothy Williamson's Knowledge...

Presenting the main concepts and key assumptions of knowledge-first theses, Arturs Logins' authoritative and engaging introduction critically evaluates some of the most debated issues in recent epistemology. Initiated by Timothy Williamson's Knowledge...

Religion, Spirituality, and Public Health focuses on exploring the role of different 'ways of knowing' or arriving at truth, i.e. epistemes, particularly those found in religious and alternative health milieus. While biomedical solutions offer a dominant...

This book argues that misinformation poses a multifaceted threat to knowledge, while arguing that some forms of content moderation risk exacerbating these threats. It proposes alternative forms of content moderation that aim to address this complexity...

The injustice of genocide denial is commonly understood as a violation of the dignity of victims, survivors, and their descendants, and further described as an assault on truth and memory. This book rethinks the normative relationship between dignity,...

A wide-ranging engagement with one of contemporary epistemology's most influential thinkers Hilary Kornblith is one of the world's leading philosophers theorizing about knowledge and related issues. A key figure in the naturalized epistemology tradition,...

This book is a journey of in-depth exploration into the social dimensions of understanding. As human beings, we strive to understand the world around us. The path to understanding, however, is rarely walked alone; we walk the path with others. We...

In Attributing Knowledge, Jody Azzouni challenges philosophical conventions about what it means to know something. He argues that the restrictive conditions philosophers place on knowers only hold in special cases; knowledge can be attributed to babies,...

'The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night.' Memory isn't all that we think it is. Each time we revisit even our most deeply engrained memories, they can...

The definitive translation of Wittgenstein's On Certainty, now more accessible than ever Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty is a seminal work in epistemology, offering a profound investigation into the nature of knowledge, doubt, and certainty. This new...

The definitive translation of Wittgenstein's On Certainty, now more accessible than ever Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty is a seminal work in epistemology, offering a profound investigation into the nature of knowledge, doubt, and certainty. This new...

Human beings change the world in order to know it more easily and reliably. That is, we construct social and material environments, or 'epistemic niches', and develop cognitive tools to better acquire, transmit, or store information. A queue, for...

The concept of linguistic relativity (or Whorfianism) has its roots in the linguistic anthropology of Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf in the early twentieth century. However, questions over the relationship between natural language and human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009087599Author Carl GillettFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

This is an open access book that addresses how we treat others and, in particular, infants and children, with first-person authority. We respond to people's first-person authority when we give our interlocutor's communication of their mental states...

More than a century after its composition, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus-Wittgenstein's first masterwork and the only book he published during his lifetime-endures as the definitive modern text on what logic can and cannot do. Since its first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551717Author Catherine Z. ElginFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Taking the principle of the 'disappearance of the medium' into new territory, this book questions the pervasive influence of the principle that the 'medium is the message'. Bold and expansive, this book argues that we have for too long focused on the...

An overview is offered of Wittgenstein's groundbreaking discussion of knowledge and certainty, especially in his final notebooks, published as On Certainty. The main interpretative readings of On Certainty are discussed, especially a...

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.The contributors utilize both the newer "metaphysics-first" and the more traditional "epistemology-first" approaches...

This edited collection charts the development of, and prospects for, conceiving knowledge as a social phenomenon. The origin, aims and growth of the journal Social Epistemology, founded in 1987, serves to anchor each of the book's contributions. Each...

An overview is offered of Wittgenstein's groundbreaking discussion of knowledge and certainty, especially in his final notebooks, published as On Certainty. The main interpretative readings of On Certainty are discussed, especially a...

All justified beliefs ultimately rest on attitudes that are immediately justified. This book illuminates the nature of immediate justification and the states that provide it. Simply put, immediate justification arises from how things appear to us-from...

This edited volume presents an innovative perspective on conversation and is the first book to deal with the epistemic aspects of conversation or dialogue. "Conversation" has been a recurring subject in various fields of philosophy, such as moral...

This book develops a novel account of the connections between justification, understanding, and knowledge. It lays the foundation for a more systematic and interconnected treatment of these central notions in epistemology.The author’s key move is to show...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032246871Author Paul SilvaImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

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