Epistemology category: 1240 books
Treatise on Basic Philosophy
Part II Life Science, Social Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Susanna Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but perception cannot. Perception is simply a source of new information, and cannot be assessed for rationality or justification. Susanna Siegel argues that this conception is wrong. Drawing on examples involving...
by Piotr Makowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume explores two traditions in practical philosophy: action theory, which concerns the nature of motivation for human action, and praxiology, the study of human action. By bringing different perspectives together, the volume strives to contribute to the international debate on theories of...
Intellectual Imagination
Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
The Intellectual Imagination unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual vocation. Omedi Ochieng argues that robust and rigorous thought about the form and contours of intellectual...
by Myrvin Chester
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Thought-provoking philosophy with a smile.
The world seems to be full of people who know things. Wherever you turn, there are those who are absolutely sure of this, positive about that, or certain that such and such is the case. There are scientists who tell us they have demonstrated that something...
Walking the Tightrope of Reason
The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
Human beings are both supremely rational and deeply superstitious, capable of believing just about anything and of questioning just about everything. Indeed, just as our reason demands that we know the truth, our skepticism leads to doubts we can ever really do so. In Walking the Tightrope of Reason,...
Socrates Tenured
The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Professional philosophy has strayed so far from its roots that Socrates wouldn’t stand a chance of landing tenure in most departments today. After all, he spent his time talking with people from all walks of life rather than being buried in the secondary literature and polishing arguments for peer-reviewed...
Categories We Live By
The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them?...
Understanding Postmodernism
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Postmodernity has matured. But the challenge of navigating our contemporary culture remains. In order for Christians to make wise decisions, we first need to understand the many facets of our postmodern context.
If René Descartes is often identified as the first truly modern philosopher in light...
Positivism and Christianity
A Study of Theism and Verifiability
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This essay is conceived as a critical exposition of the central issues that figure in the ongoing conversation between Logical Positivists and neo Positivists on the one hand and Christian apologists on the other. My expository aim is to isolate and to describe the main issues that have emer ged...
The Analysis of Wonder
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Structured to introduce the reader into all aspects of the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950), this book aims to stimulate further interest into his thought. Once considered the most studious and systematic of all the German philosophers of the twentieth-century, this prolific author has been...
by Angela Potochnik
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function—if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity.
Idealization and the Aims of Science shows just how crucial idealization is to...
by Anders Odenstedt
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence. Analytical and partly critical, the book also shows exegetical accuracy in the rendering of Gadamer's position. It explores the following questions that Gadamer's theory of context-dependence tries to answer: in what way is thought influenced...
by S.T. Padgett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A. PURPOSE AND PLAN William Temple was trained as a philosopher and lectured on phi losophy at Oxford (1904), but his concern for labor, education, journalism, and the Church of England led him away from philosophy as a profession. Enthroned in 1942 as Archbishop of Canterbury, Temple persisted...