Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Jeff Speaks
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
There are two main ways in which things with minds, like us, differ from things without minds, like tables and chairs. First, we are conscious—there is something that it is like to be us. We instantiate phenomenal properties. Second, we represent, in various ways, our world as being certain ways....
by Keith Ansell-Pearson, Keith Ansell Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
With the development of new technologies and the Internet, the notion of the virtual has grown increasingly important. In this lucid collection of essays, Pearson bridges the continental-analytic divide in philosophy, bringing the virtual to centre stage and arguing its importance for re-thinking...
by Brian Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
How did our universe come to be? Does God exist? Does time flow? What are we? Do we have free will? What is truth? Metaphysics is concerned with the nature of ourselves and the world around us. This clear and accessible introduction covers the central topics in metaphysics in a concise but comprehensive...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
After Gödel’s results the limitations of the three principal “foundational schools” became more and more evident, while the “working scientists” continued their activity caring more for the acquisition of “results” than for logical rigor. This “pragmatic turn” was perceivable also...
Body and Mind
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas's study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish thinker...
Mind in Action
Experience and Embodied Cognition in Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
The book questions two key dichotomies: that of the apparent and real, and that of the internal and external. This leads to revised notions of the structure of experience and the object of knowledge. Our world is experienced as possibilities of action, and to know is to know what to do. A further...
History as a Science and the System of the Sciences
Phenomenological Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume goes beyond presently available phenomenological analyses based on the structures and constitution of the lifeworld. It shows how the science of history is the mediator between the human and the natural sciences. It demonstrates that the distinction between interpretation and explanation...
After Postmodernism
A Naturalistic Reconstruction of the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
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 sciences can be understood on similar lines to scientific practice of natural and social sciences.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Aristotelian (or neo-Aristotelian) metaphysics is currently undergoing something of a renaissance. This volume brings together fourteen essays from leading philosophers who are sympathetic to this conception of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the idea that metaphysics is the first philosophy....
Strange coincidences in your life.
Small curious events. Forebodings. Telepathy. Does it happen to you too? Quantum physics and the theory of synchronicity explain extrasensory phenomena.
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2019
From the earliest developments of thought, mankind believed that some significant coincidences were signs by which a higher philosophical or divine level sought to inter-dialogue with men.
In the last three centuries this had been erased from the new directions of science. Extraordinary coincidences...
by Abné M. Eisenberg Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
This is the perfect book for an intellectually bored individual. In it, the author shares a serendipitous collection of his thoughts on a wide variety of conventional and unconventional topics. Professor Eisenberg has spent the past six decades challenging his students to think outside the proverbial...
How Do You Know?
The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? We need an account of this process to help explain why people act as they do. You might think I am acting irrationally--against my interest or my purpose--until you realize that what you know and what I know differ significantly. My actions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book contains a selection of original conference papers covering all major fields in the philosophy of science, that have been organized into themes. The first section of this volume begins with the formal philosophy of science, moves on to idealization, representation and explanation and then...
The Map and the Territory
Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart. Together they illuminate the Map/Territory Distinction that underlies at the foundation of the scientific method, thought and the...