Epistemology category: 1240 books

Everyone knows that Einstein’s special relativity contains a theory of time measurements, which are no longer conceived as absolute, but are related to the state of motion of the clock and to the point of view of the observer, and the same happens to space measurements. Everyone also knows that...

Entgegen dem zu seiner Zeit stark verbreiteten Naturalismus entwickelte Dilthey ein lebensphilosophisches Fundament, welches das menschliche Leben und die Formen seines Ausdrucks nicht mehr nur nach Naturgesetzlichkeiten erklärte, sondern vielmehr die Eigengesetzlichkeit des menschlichen Geisteslebens...

This volume presents a dozen essays by prominent contemporary epistemologists providing a careful examination and critical evaluation of traditional epistemic internalism. Unlike competing versions of internalism, the guiding principle of traditional internalism is not to accommodate our commonsense...

Moral philosophy is no longer being pursued from arm-chairs. Instead, ethical questions are dissected in the experimental lab. This volume enables its readers to immerse themselves into Experimental Ethics' history, its current topics and future perspectives, its methodology, and the criticism it is subject to.

Peter Chaadaev emerges from the pages of history as one of Russia's most provocative and influential thinkers. The purpose of this book is to present the reader with the fIrst English translation of most of his philosophical writings. During the first half of the nineteenth century Chaadaev incited...

In this paper length eBook, psychotherapist and philosopher Tim Kellebrew introduces the concepts of social referents of dialogue and how they contribute to a shared nature of mind.In extensive endnotes that are almost as interesting as the text, Kellebrew draws upon his 25 years of clinical...

Is nature creation or merely the product of non-intentional, natural processes? The author aims to recover the Christian sense that it is obvious that nature is creation and argues that biological nature has expressive properties similar in kind to human behaviour and art.

Living with Purpose When the Gods are Gone provides A vision for humanity that links us all by reducing dogmatic boundaries. Through thought-provoking essays on finding meaningful direction, the author creates a path forward, for those with enough courage to give up their belief system as the "one true...

In Heidegger’s Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger’s lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things. Drawing upon a wide variety of texts,...

We take it for granted that a person persists over time: when we make plans, we assume that we will carry them out; when we punish someone for a crime, we assume that she is the same person as the one who committed it. Metaphysical questions underlying these assumptions point towards an area of deep...

I suppose Joseph Agassi's best and dearest self-description, his cher­ ished wish, is to practice what his 1988 book promises: The Gentle Art of Philosophical Polemics. But for me, and for so many who know him, our Agassi is tough-minded, not tender, not so gentle. True to his beloved critical thinking,...

In recent decades, many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory. Much less attention has been given to how such an approach bears on issues in applied ethics. The essays in this volume apply a virtue-centered perspective to a variety...

L'ouvrage est consacré à l'impossibilité actuelle de bien communiquer la science. L'Europe manque d'une véritable culture dans ce domaine. L'analyse des crises récentes (Tchernobyl, OGM, vache folle, grippe aviaire) révèle des exemples flagrants d'incommunication publique. Cette situation handicape...

On peut se chercher toute une vie, dans le reflet du miroir, sans jamais se trouver. Surtout si le miroir est de verre. Car la plus fidèle des images est l’inverse de celle que nous y voyons, et dans cette réflexion, le regard de l’autre est nettement plus juste. Après vous être lu dans le miroir,...