Epistemology category: 1240 books
The World-Time Parallel
Tense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Wittgenstein’s Intentions, first published in 1993, presents a series of essays dedicated to the great Wittgenstein exegete John Hunter. The problematic topics discussed are identified not only by Wittgenstein’s own philosophical writings, but also by contemporary scholarship: areas of ambiguity,...
Pluriverse (Routledge Revivals)
An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Pluriverse, the final work of the American poet and philosopher Benjamin Paul Blood, was published posthumously in 1920. After an experience of the anaesthetic nitrous oxide during a dental operation, Blood came to the conclusion that his mind had been opened, that he had undergone a mystical experience,...
Husserl in Contemporary Context
Prospects and Projects for Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
James F. Sheridan Allegheny College As we come to the end of the century, an attentive student of con temporary European philosophy will no doubt be startled by a volume titled Husserl in Contemporary Context. Such philosophers are most likely to believe that Hussed has now been declared II classical"...
by Roy Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Discover Plato is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to the works of Plato. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover all his...
Conceptual Tension
Essays on Kinship, Politics, and Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Conceptual Tension: Essays on Kinship, Politics, and Individualism is a critical philosophical examination of the role of concepts and concept formation in social sciences. Written by Leon J. Goldstein, a preeminent Jewish philosopher who examined the epistemological foundations of social science...
Georges Bataille
An Epitome
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This short introduction to Georges Bataille’s work examines his philosophy and literature by identifying the central theories of transgression, sovereignty and/or subjectivity, sacrifice, art and/or aesthetic radicalism, general and restricted economies, as well as the profane and the sacred by...
Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity
A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
This book analyses and explains the central passage of Kant’s philosophy, the “Transcendental Analytic” of the Critique of Pure Reason. It proceeds in the manner of a textual commentary, discussing and explaining each section of the Analytic in turn. The purpose, however, is not merely to comment...
by Ed Simon, Michael Strauss, Raja Halwani
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #5: April 2019
Featuring Ideas by: Michael Strauss, Ed Simon, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, and Johanna Hanink
by H. Wildon Carr
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in unanalysed experience; in philosophy we examine the first principles and ultimate questions that concern conscious experience itself. The problem of truth is a problem...
The Joy of Philosophy
Thinking Thin versus the Passionate Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
The Joy of Philosophy is a return to some of the perennial questions of philosophy--questions about the meaning of life; about death and tragedy; about the respective roles of rationality and passion in the good life; about love, compassion, and revenge; about honesty, deception, and betrayal; and...
Could there have been Nothing?
Against Metaphysical Nihilism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
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 beings, no planets, no atoms, no matter, no energy - nothing?
by Roy Bhaskar
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Kevin McCain
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Evidentialism is a popular theory of epistemic justification, yet, as early proponents of the theory Earl Conee and Richard Feldman admit, there are many elements that must be developed before Evidentialism can provide a full account of epistemic justification, or well-founded belief. It is the aim...