Epistemology category: 1240 books
by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, María Paula Meneses
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2014
¿Por qué razón, en los últimos dos siglos, la epistemología occidental dominante eliminó de la reflexión el contexto cultural y político de producción y reproducción del conocimiento? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias de esta descontextualización? ¿Son hoy posibles otras epistemologías?...
Corrientes teóricas en antropología
Perspectivas desde el siglo XXI
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Este libro examina críticamente las principales teorías de la cultura de los últimos años del siglo XX y las que se están elaborando: la etnografía multisituada neo-posmoderna, las múltiples encarnaciones del evolucionismo y el retorno insólito de la etnografía boasiana, puesta al día por...
El pensamiento pragmatista en la actualidad
Conocimiento, lenguaje, religión, estética y política
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Análisis y evaluación de la vigencia del pragmatismo en los distintos terrenos en los que ha trascendido, pero sin dejar de lado las raíces históricas de las que se nutre. Desde fines del siglo XX existe un innegable interés por el pragmatismo como tradición filosófica y por el desarrollo de...
by Einar Albarrán, Juan González, Beatriz Gentile
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2009
¿Qué es pensar desde la emergencia? Con esta pregunta desafiante, la autora cuestiona cómo pensamos América Latina. En un original recorrido histórico crítico sobre algunas ideas fundamentales de pensadores del continente tales como Sarmiento, Martí, Paz, Zea, Hostos, Mariátegui, Kush; el...
by Edgar Morin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Este sexto y último volumen de "El Método" constituye el punto de llegada de la gran obra de Edgar Morin. Esta obra ha hecho de la complejidad un problema fundamental que elucidar y tratar, ha creado escuela y ha suscitado un movimiento para "reformar el pensamiento". En este...
by J.L. Gambande
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2015
El autor desgrana en diversos artículos su particular visión de los descubrimientos científicos, así como sus preguntas sobre la inmortalidad, sobre la visión de las cosas y del Universo, en un estilo ágil, ameno, casi coloquial. Es un libro de lectura rápida y entretenida, que dejará pensando a muchos lectores.
Bachelard
La voluntad de imaginar o el oficio de ensoñar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 28, 2009
El presente libro explica la manera como el estudio filosófico del "ensueño poético" o "ensueño meditativo" llevado a cabo por Bachelard, maduró y le permitió desarrollar una fenomenología de la imaginación creadora que da cuenta de los múltiples lazos de filiación entre...
The Bright and the Good
The Connection between Intellectual and Moral Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
The Bright and the Good examines the connection between intellectual and moral virtues both through the history of philosophy and as it can be illustrated in comprehensive examinations of specific virtues.
The first part of the book investigates the original assumptions posited by Ancient Western...
by John B Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Peace is advanced as a condition to be desired, yet human social orders around the world are structured in a way that peace is nearly impossible to achieve within them. The Fourth Age proposes that we can move beyond the short-term, localized periods of peace seen in the Civilized Age and advance toward...
by Abiola Okungbaye
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
How do we grasp our environment and predict the actions of our fellow human beings? Bamijoko-Okungbaye has provided a disparate thought to answer these questions drawing from phenomenology, neuroscience, and psychology.This book is a must-read for anyone working on these topics and also for the general...
Objects and Identity
An Examination of the Relative Identity Thesis and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Identity has for long been an important concept in philosophy and logic. Plato in his Sophist puts same among those fonns which "run through" all others. The scholastics inherited the idea (and the tenninology), classifying same as one of the "transcendentals", i.e. as running...
Ignorance
(On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge)
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
Historically, there has been great deliberation about the limits of human knowledge. Isaac Newton, recognizing his own shortcomings, once described himself as “a boy standing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all underscored before me.”
In Ignorance, Nicholas Rescher...
Pictures and their Use in Communication
A Philosophical Essay
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ours is the age of the picture. Pictures abound in our newspapers and magazines, in storybooks and on the glossy pages of instruction manuals. We find them on billboards and postage stamps, on the television screen and in the cinema. And in all of these cases pictures inform us: they explain, they...
by Dorion Cairns
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America.
Based on his intimate knowledge of Husserl’s published...