Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Linda Zagzebski
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
In this book Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, modeled on the Putnam-Kripke theory which revolutionized semantics in the seventies. In Exemplarist Moral Theory, exemplars are identified through the emotion of admiration, which Zagzebski...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
One of the most important philosophers of the nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche's influence on modern thought has extended beyond the borders of philosophy. His works have helped shape modern anthropology, psychology, theology, and sociology. Poets, novelists, and artists have also been touched...
by Dagobert D. Runes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In his most recent philosophical work, one of the modern world’s pre-eminent thinkers offers a summation of his views on a wide range of topics of first and last importance, beginning with abstract art and ending with Zionism.
Culled from years of patient research and fruitful introspection,...
How We Think
Including Essays in Experimental Logic; Creative Intelligence; Human Nature & Conduct, Leibniz's New Essays...
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
"Train to Think Well" is a collection of John Dewey's works in the area of human thought logic. These works are the essential read not only for those who are active in the field of teaching but anyone interested in education and intellectual development. Table of Contents: How We Think Leibniz's...
An Existential Approach to God
A Study of Gabriel Marcel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Man's concern about God is both a question and a quest. We seek to know with certainty that God is real; we seek also to draw near to God, to know that He is really for us. My aim in this work is to re-think this two-fold concern and to do so with Gabriel Marcel. Throughout the work I have combined...
Intellectual Humility
An Introduction to the Philosophy and Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Why care about intellectual humility? What is an intellectual virtue? How do we know who is intellectually humble? The nature of intellectual virtues is a topic of ancient interest. But contemporary philosophy has experienced unparalleled energy and concern for one particular virtue over the past...
Kant’s Philosophy and the Momentum of Modernity
The Metaphysics of Fact Determination
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
This book is both a careful study of Immanuel Kant’s work and the context of that work in the movement known as early modern philosophy. The chief interest of the author concerns the philosophy of perception that is manifest in Kant’s doctrines of the transcendental aesthetic and the concept of...
Scientific Progress
A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied...
by Michael Huemer
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
Since Descartes, one of the central questions of Western philosophy has been that of how we know that the objects we seem to perceive are real. Philosophical skeptics claim that we know no such thing. Representationalists claim that we can gain such knowledge only by inference, by showing that the...
From Logic to Practice
Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This book brings together young researchers from a variety of fields within mathematics, philosophy and logic. It discusses questions that arise in their work, as well as themes and reactions that appear to be similar in different contexts. The book shows that a fairly intensive activity in the philosophy...
by Andrei Rodin
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This volume explores the many different meanings of the notion of the axiomatic method, offering an insightful historical and philosophical discussion about how these notions changed over the millennia.
The author, a well-known philosopher and historian of mathematics, first examines Euclid,...
by D. M. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
First published in 1985, D. M. Armstrong's original work on what laws of nature are has continued to be influential in the areas of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Presenting a definitive attack on the sceptical Humean view, that laws are no more than a regularity of coincidence between stances...
The Nature of Scientific Thinking
On Interpretation, Explanation and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective.
by Michael J. Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals about how things are in worlds that are similar to but simpler than the actual world.