Epistemology category: 1240 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Opponents of skepticism--including externalists, contextualists, foundationalists, and coherentists--have focussed largely on one particular variety of skepticism, often called Cartesian or Academic...
by K. Meeker
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Treating David Hume as a partner in a continuing philosophical dialogue, this book tries to come to terms with Hume's influential thoughts on scepticism and naturalism in a way that sheds light on contemporary philosophy and its relationship to science.
by Steven L. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Standard philosophical explanations of the concept of knowledge invoke a personal goal of having true beliefs, and explain the other requirements for knowledge as indicating the best way to achieve that goal. In this highly original book, Steven L. Reynolds argues instead that the concept of knowledge...
by W. Stegmüller
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These two volumes contain all of my articles published between 1956 and 1975 which might be of interest to readers in the English-speaking world. The first three essays in Vol. 1 deal with historical themes. In each case I have attempted a rational reconstruction which, as far as possible, meets con...
The Appearance of Ignorance
Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing "knowledge" to her to be true do vary with context, has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of language during the last few decades. This volume presents, develops, and...
by Mark McBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
How do we know what we know? In this stimulating and rigorous book, Mark McBride explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology: the problems that warrant transmission poses for the category of basic knowledge; and the status of conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety as conditions that...
Themes from Klein
Knowledge, Scepticism, and Justification
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
This volume features more than fifteen essays written in honor of Peter D. Klein. It explores the work and legacy of this prominent philosopher, who has had and continues to have a tremendous influence in the development of epistemology.
The essays reflect the breadth and depth of Klein's work....
Scientism
Prospects and Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves? Is science our only guide to what exists? Scientism answers both questions with yes. Scientism is increasingly influential in popular scientific literature and intellectual life in general, but philosophers have hitherto largely...
Knowing and Seeing
Groundwork for a new empiricism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? In Knowing and Seeing, Michael Ayers recovers the insight in the traditional distinction between knowledge and belief, according to which 'knowledge' stems from direct and perspicuous cognitive contact with ('seeing') its object, whereas 'belief'...
by Scott Aikin
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief" and William James's "The Will to Believe." Discussing the central themes from these seminal essays, Evidentialism and the Will to Believe explores the...
Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge
Are the Scientific Study of Religion and a Religious Epistemology Compatible?
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Most comparisons of science and religion are really comparisons of science and Christianity, or science and Islam, and so forth. In Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge, the author aims to get outside typical polarized debates between traditional, a priori theism and radical, scientistic naturalism....
Contextualism, Factivity and Closure
A Union That Should Not Take Place?
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This book analyses an inconsistency within epistemic contextualism known as the factivity problem. It also provides key insights into epistemic contextualism, an important innovation in contemporary epistemology, enabling readers to gain a better understanding of the various solutions to the factivity...
by John Locke, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Widely regarded as the Father of Liberalism, John Locke was an English philosopher and one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. Locke’s theory of mind is...
Knowing from Words
Western and Indian Philosophical Analysis of Understanding and Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports? Besides Hume's subversive discussion...