Epistemology category: 1240 books
Simulating Minds
The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? And what are the dimensions of our grasp of the mental...
The Ideal and the Real
An Outline of Kant’s Theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Many students coming to grips with Kant's philosophy are understandably daunted not only by the complexity and sheer difficulty of the man's writings, but almost equally by the amount of secondary literature available. A great deal of this seems to be - and not only on first reading - just about as...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression “teaching and learning contexts” refers. It reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern sources, and how notions of...
Finding Your Center
Explorations in Philosophy, New Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Finding Your Center: Explorations In Philosophy, New Physics, And Eastern Mysticism is a fascinating compilation which highlights many important aspects of life. The knowledge contained therein is reflective of the ever changing world in which we live. Each page is overflowing with a diverse spectrum...
Believing Against the Evidence
Agency and the Ethics of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The question of whether it is ever permissible to believe on insufficient evidence has once again become a live question. Greater attention is now being paid to practical dimensions of belief, namely issues related to epistemic virtue, doxastic responsibility, and voluntarism.
In this book,...
Play Intelligence
From IQ to PIQ
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
On the whim of an idea, a sophomore student, unlike any other sophomore, takes on the might of the academic world with one of the most thought provoking books written on psychology and philosophy. Play Intelligence: From IQ to PIQ challenges the very heart of our modern science with a radical, if...
by Daniel Deleanu
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2002
Daniel Deleanu's Principles of Logosophy, written in "logosophistic English"-a language based on the author's original concept of logoarchetype-breaks all the boundaries of human knowledge through a reinterpretation of the Platonic concept of archetype and of the Logos.
Deleanu links...
Free Will
A Philosophical Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This volume is a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans have free will, Rescher first examines what exactly free will is and how it should function. While the literature on the subject of free...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
What roles do different kinds of knowledge play in medicine? What roles should they play? What standards (epistemic, ethical, practical) should be met before knowledge is used to develop policy or practice? Medical decision-making, whether in the clinic or at the policy level, can have serious and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, one of his three major treatises on moral theory, and a seminal text in the history of moral philosophy. Originally published three years after his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique provides further elaboration...
To Save the Phenomena
An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics–an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Christian scholasticism, and, finally, the astronomers of the Renaissance.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The fundamental question whether, or in which sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what science tells us about the world determined unambiguously by facts or does the content of any scientific theory in some way depend on the human...
Beyond Scepticism and Realism
A Constructive Exploration of Husserlian and Whiteheadian Methods of Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World
Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
How does mind fit into nature? Philosophy has long been concerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify it than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up...