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Considered Judgment by Catherine Z. Elgin
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £54.80Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered. Nevertheless,... -
Epistemic Ecology Catherine Z. Elgin 9780262551717
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £48.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551717Author Catherine Z. ElginFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprin -
With Reference to Reference by Catherine Z. Elgin 9780915145522
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £28.38"Systematizes and develops in a comprehensive study Nelson Goodman's philosophy of language. The Goodman-Elgin point of view is important and sophisticated, and deals with a number of issues, such as... -
Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences by Nelson Goodman 9780872200524
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £29.74"The authors argue against certain philosophical distinctions between art and science; between verbal and nonverbal meaning; and between the affective and the cognitive. The book continues Goodman's... -
Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together Otavio Bueno 9781032569864
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between the philosophy of science and... -
The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments Michael T Stuart 9781032569710
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £47.29Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from... -
Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology: Knowing, More or Less Stephen Hetherington 9781350344952
Booksplease Price: £30.54Philosophy has long embraced epistemology as one of its central elements. What is knowledge? How do we gain it? Can we gain it? Or do we always deceive ourselves when thinking that we have knowledge?... -
The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology by Heather Battaly
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.84What is an epistemic virtue? Are epistemic virtues reliable? Are they motivated by a love of truth? Do epistemic virtues produce knowledge and understanding? How can we develop epistemic virtues? The... -
Is There a Single Right Interpretation? by Michael Krausz 9780271021836
Booksplease Price: £56.37Is there a single right interpretation for such cultural phenomena as works of literature, visual artworks, works of music, the self, and legal and sacred texts? In these essays, almost all written... -
Metaphors: Figures of the Mind by Zdravko Radman 9789048147809
Booksplease Price: £92.05This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself. Rather it is concerned with the argument from metaphor. In other... -
Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy by Philip Kitcher 9780199899555
Booksplease Price: £79.10Over the last two decades the distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher has started to make a serious case for pragmatism as the source of a new life in contemporary philosophy. There are some, like... -
What's the Point of Knowledge?: A Function-First Epistemology by Michael Hannon
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.73This book is about knowledge and its value. At its heart is a straightforward idea: we can answer many interesting and difficult questions in epistemology by reflecting on the role of epistemic... -
Metaphors: Figures of the Mind by Zdravko Radman 9780792343561
Booksplease Price: £92.20This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself. Rather it is concerned with the argument from metaphor. In other... -
Social Justice and Educational Measurement: John Rawls, the history of testing, and the future of education Zachary Stein (Meridian University, United States) 9780815360018
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Social Justice and Educational Measurement addresses foundational concerns at the interface of standardized testing and social justice in American schools. Following John Rawls's philosophical... -
Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science by Mauricio Suárez 9780226830025
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.90The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suarez develops a conception of representation that... -
Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science by Mauricio Suárez 9780226830049
Booksplease Price: £28.55The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suarez develops a conception of representation that... -
The World in the Model: How Economists Work and Think by Mary S. Morgan
Booksplease Price: £45.61During the last two centuries, the way economic science is done has changed radically: it has become a social science based on mathematical models in place of words. This book describes and analyses...