Epistemology category: 1240 books

In order to conduct a well-grounded search for meaning, this book wants to renew the ancient attempt to seek wisdom in everyday life, training ourselves to modify our own perceptions of the world in as authentic a manner as possible. This path places analysis, philosophical practices and religion...

Epicurus founded one of the major philosophies of ancient Greece, helping to lay the intellectual foundations for modern science and for secular individualism. His world-view was much an inspiring and optimistic one which stresses that philosophy can liberate one from fears of death and the supernatural,...

Although scholars from many disciplines have turned their attention to Russell’s work and appraised its significance for a number of fields, and an extensive literature on him emerged, until this book, first published in 1963, no thorough study on Russell’s contribution to education – an area...

Application is the process in which readers of literature focus on elements in a text and compare them with the outside world as they know it – an operation with cognitive and emotional consequences. This book demonstrates how and why this simple yet neglected mechanism is of profound importance for the understanding of literary art and experience.

Ontological arguments are one of the main classes of arguments for the existence of God, and have been influential from the Middle Ages right up until the present time. This accessible volume offers a comprehensive survey and assessment of them, starting with a sequence of chapters charting their...

Focusing on the works of Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Sir William Hamilton, Thomas Brown and James Frederick Ferrier, this book offers a definitive account of an important philosophical movement, and represents a ground-breaking contribution to scholarship in the area. Essential reading for philosophers or anyone with an interest in the history of philosophical thought.

Few concepts have been considered as essential to the theory of knowledge and rational belief as that of evidence. The simplest theory which accounts for this is evidentialism, the view that epistemic justification for belief—the kind of justification typically taken to be required for knowledge—is...

3 Oeuvres de Louis Pasteur Scientifique français, chimiste et physicien de formation, pionnier de la microbiologie (1822-1895) Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 3 Oeuvres de Louis Pasteur éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières...

C’est au cours de ces trois dernières années passées dans sa Loge Rèves de Liberté (DH) en qualité d’Orateur que l’auteur a prononcé un ensemble de conclusions faisant suite aux différents morceaux d’architecture. Ces conclusions ont une particularité : elles ont toutes été présentées...

Depuis les années 1960, Gilbert Durand a fondé et développé une méthodologie et une épistémologie novatrices de l’étude des imaginaires individuels et culturels qui ont inspiré une École de Grenoble, qui n’a cessé d’essaimer à travers un grand nombre de centres de recherches en France...

The problem of the Critique may be stated in outline and approximately in Kant's own words as follows. Human reason is called upon to consider certain questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer. These questions relate to God, freedom of...

Ce premier volume d'essais, lettres et fragments, inédits de Simone Weil, est tout entier orienté vers les mathématiques et la science.   Voici la succession des chapitres : Science et perception dans Descartes - Lettre à un camarade - Lettre à...

Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A longstanding paradox within naturalism, however,...

This book is multi- and interdisciplinary in both scope and content. It draws upon philosophy, the neurosciences, psychology, computer science, and engineering in efforts to resolve fundamental issues about the nature of immediate awareness. Approximately the first half of the book is addressed to...