Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide t...
Author: Fogelin, Robert J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosop...
Author: Berkeley, George Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" is a book that largely seeks to counter the claims made by his contemporary philosophers about the nature of human perception. The author has ...
Author: Berkeley, George Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: George Berkeley also known as Bishop Berkeley was an 18th century philosopher. His theory of "immaterialism" was later referred to as "subjective idealism. This theory, summed up in his dictum, "Ess...
Author: Greco, John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When we affirm (or deny) that someone knows something, we are making a value judgment of sorts - we are claiming that there is something superior (or inferior) about that personís opinion, or their e...
Author: Lemos,Noah Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Epistemology or the theory of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of analytic philosophy, and this book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the subject. It discusses some of the main theo...
Author: Carroll, John W. / Markosian, Ned Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is an accessible introduction to the central themes of contemporary metaphysics. It carefully considers accounts of causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, personal identity, men...
Author: Moran, Richard Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the cl...
Author: Epstein, Richard L Publisher: Advanced Reasoning Forum Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This series of books presents the fundamentals of reasoning well, in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the idea...
Author: Elgin, Catherine Z. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered. Nevertheless, ...
Author: Kant,Immanuel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Critique of the Power of Judgment (a more accurate rendition of what has hitherto been translated as the Critique of Judgment) is the third of Kant's great critiques following the Critique of Pure...
Author: Broughton, Janet Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Descartes thought that we could achieve absolute certainty by starting with radical doubt. He adopts this strategy in the Meditations on First Philosophy, where he raises sweeping doubts with the famo...
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Description: Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom is now widely regarded as a classic of contemporary philosophy. Written by the renowned founder of the philosophy of critical realism, first published in 1993, this boo...
Description: This outstanding introduction sets out the central themes and debates surrounding embodied cognition. Including helpful chapter summaries and annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, Embo...
Author: Rescher, Nicholas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Epistemetrics is not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there is the discipline of scientometrics, represented by a journal of that very name. Science, however, does ...
Author: Aikin, Scott Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the problem, evaluation of the options available for ...
Author: Audi, Robert Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Epistemology, or "the theory of knowledge," is concerned with how we know what we know, what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths a...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first book devoted to the work of Ernest Sosa, one of the most influential contemporary epistemologists. Part of the acclaimed Philosophers and Their Critics series. The editor’s int...
Author: Elder, Crawford L. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or tempora...
Author: Dilthey, Wilhelm Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (18331911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly discipl...
Author: Hardin, Russell Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? We need an account of this process to help explain why people act as they do. You might think I am acting irrationally--against my interest...
Author: Cartwright,Nancy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different...
Author: Foley, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: To what degree should we rely on our own resources and methods to form opinions about important matters? To what degree should we depend on various authorities, such as a recognized expert or a social...
Author: Forster, Michael N. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book puts forward a much-needed reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the Critique of Pure Reason. It is widely recognized that Kant...
Author: Gattei, Stefano Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rectifying misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper's philosophy, Gattei reconstructs the logic of Popper's development to show how one problem and its tentative so...
Author: Sosa, Ernest Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Ernest Sosa explains the nature of knowledge through an approach originated by him years ago, known as virtue epistemology. Here he provides the first comprehensive account of his views ...
Author: Hendricks, Vincent Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mainstream and Formal Epistemology provides the first easily accessible yet erudite and original analysis of the meeting point between mainstream and formal theories of knowledge. These two strands of...
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Author: Davis, Wayne A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen, and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally...
Author: Makin, Gideon Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Metaphysicians of Meaning" is the first book to challenge the accepted understanding of Russell's "On Denoting" and Frege's "On Sense and Reference." Makin compares the work Russell did shortly befor...
Author: Zimmerman, Aaron Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do we know right from wrong? Do we even have moral knowledge? Moral epistemology studies these and related questions about our understanding of virtue and vice. It is one of philosophy's perennial...
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Description: On Being With Others is an outstanding and compelling uncovering of one of the key questions in philosophy: how can we claim to have knowledge of minds other than our own?
Author: Millikan, Ruth Garrett Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written by one of today's most creative and innovative philosophers, Ruth Garrett Millikan, this book examines basic empirical concepts; how they are acquired, how they function, and how they have bee...
Author: Tucker, Aviezer Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical analy...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Philosophical Skepticism provides a selection of texts drawn from the skeptical tradition of Western philosophy as well as texts written by opponents of skepticism. Taken together with the historical ...
Author: Gillies, Donald Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book presents a comprehensive and systematic account of the various philosophical theories of probability and explains how they are related. It covers the classical, logical, subjective, frequenc...
Author: Fish, William Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality. Raising questions about the conscious character of perceptual experiences, how they enabl...
Author: Rescher, Nicholas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Presumption is a remarkably versatile and pervasively useful resource. Firmly grounded in the law of evidence from its origins in classical antiquity, it made its way in the days of medieval scholasti...
Author: Caputo, John D. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between hermeneutics and deconstruction than has previously been attempted. For John D. Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcend...
Author: Wicks, Robert Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book, ideal for anyone coming to Kant's Critique of Judgment for the first time, introduces this philosophical classic and places it in its historical context, showing its relevance to major issu...
Author: Griffin, Nicholas Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A century after 'On Denoting' was published, the debate it initiated continues. This erudite volume provides an overview of the latest scholarship on Russell and Meinong, as well as detailed accounts ...
Author: Prado, C. G. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book compares John Searle and Michel Foucault's radically opposed views on truth in order to demonstrate the need for invigorating cross-fertilization between the analytic and Continental philoso...
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Author: Hintikka,Jaakko Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most current work in epistemology deals with the evaluation and justification of information already acquired. In this book, Jaakko Hintikka instead discusses the more important problem of how knowled...
Author: Jeffrey, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a concise survey of basic probability theory from a thoroughly subjective point of view whereby probability is a mode of judgment. Written by one of the greatest figures in the field ...
Author: Vasseleu, Cathryn Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Light has often been privileged as a metaphor for objectivity and truth in Western thought, a status that has been challenged by recent feminist thought as giving entitlement to the masculine. This bo...
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