Epistemology category: 1240 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book focuses on various concepts of space and their historical evolution. In particular, it examines the variations that have modified the notions of place, orientation, distance, vacuum, limit, bound and boundary, form and figure, continuity and contingence, in order to show how spatial characteristics...
by J.L. Shaw, D.L. Oxtoby
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
This volume of the collected works of J.L. Shaw contains twelve papers that fall in the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Professor Shaw's methodology in these papers is that of comparative philosophy. With an emphasis on classical Indian analytical philosophy and...
Knowledge By Acceptance
A New and Practical Means of Identifying Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This book presents a new means of differentiating knowledge from non-knowledge. In other words, it presents a novel analysis of knowledge - list of conditions that, when met, indicate that a person knows something rather than merely believing it. The analysis of knowledge it proposes seems to overcome...
by Dr Paul Dicken
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
What are the reasons for believing scientific theories to be true? The contemporary debate around scientific realism exposes questions about the very nature of scientific knowledge. A Critical Introduction to Scientific Realism explores and advances the main topics of the debate, allowing epistemologists...
After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend
Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that issues in methodology are still very much...
The Categories and the Principle of Coherence
Whitehead’s Theory of Categories in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The general topic of this book is the theory of categories, its sources, meaning and development. The inquiry can be seen to proceed on two levels. On one, the history of the theory is traced from its alleged genesis in Aristotle, through its main subsequent stages of Kant and Hegel, up to a kind...
HOW WE THINK & Other Works Concerning the Logic of Human Thought
Including Leibniz's New Essays; Essays in Experimental Logic; Creative Intelligence; Human Nature & Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “HOW WE THINK & Other Works Concerning the Logic of Human Thought” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Everything that comes to mind, that 'goes through our heads,’ is called a thought. To think of a thing is...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
When philosophers try to understand the nature of knowledge, they have to confront the Gettier problem. This problem, set out in Edmund Gettier's famous paper of 1963, has yet to be solved, and has challenged our best attempts to define what knowledge is. This volume offers an organised sequence of...
Science and Relativism
Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy...
by Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book is devoted to articulating the connections between the nature and value of faith and humility. The goal is to understand faith and humility in a way that does not discriminate between religious and mundane contexts, between sacred and secular. It arises from a conviction that these two character...
The Nyaya on Meaning
A Commentary on Pandit Visvabandhu
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
The Nyaya on Meaning is not only a commentary on Pandit Visvabandhu Tarkatirtha's article on "The Nyaya on the Meaning of Some Words" but also contains explanations which are indispensable for understanding the Navya-Nyaya tradition of Indian philosophy. It also covers a wide range of topics,...
by Elias Rafferton
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
I begin by providing a personal account of my life and thought processes leading up to and throughout my seeking years. Spurred in large part by the experience of losing my mother at a young age, this backdrop attempts to emphasize why I became so desperate to understand the fundamental nature of...
The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism
A Critical Realist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea. Moving beyond the spirit of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the mechanisms of which are limited to physical geography, it demonstrates how epistemological insights from the field...