The Nature of Metaphysical Knowledge
Author : George F. McLean
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780819169266
Author : George F. McLean
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780819169266
Author : Hilary Kornblith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2002-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199246319
Philosophers have traditionally used conceptual analysis to investigate knowledge. Hilary Kornblith argues that this is misguided: it is not the concept of knowledge that we should be investigating, but knowledge itself, a robust natural phenomenon, suitable for scientific study. Cognitive ethologists not only attribute intentional states to non-human animals, they also speak of such animals as having knowledge; and this talk of knowledge does causal and explanatory work withintheir theories. The account of knowledge which emerges from this literature is a version of reliabilism: knowledge is reliably produced true belief.This account of knowledge is not meant merely to provide an elucidation of an important scientific category. Rather, Kornblith argues that knowledge, in this very sense, is what philosophers have been talking about all along. Rival accounts are examined in detail and it is argued that they are inadequate to the phenomenon of knowledge (even of human knowledge).One traditional objection to this sort of naturalistic approach to epistemology is that, in providing a descriptive account of the nature of important epistemic categories, it must inevitably deprive these categories of their normative force. But Kornblith argues that a proper account of epistemic normativity flows directly from the account of knowledge which is found in cognitive ethology. Knowledge may be properly understood as a real feature of the world which makes normative demands uponus.This controversial and refreshingly original book offers philosophers a new way to do epistemology.
Author : Marcus Willaschek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110847263X
Detailed exploration of the Transcendental Dialectic, in which Kant uncovers the sources of metaphysics in human reason.
Author : Stephen Mumford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199657122
An introduction to metaphysics offers questions and answers covering such issues as properties, changes, time, personal identity, nothingness, and consciousness.
Author : George F. McLean
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Metaphysics.
ISBN : 9780819169273
Author : Marc Lange
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019974503X
What distinguishes laws of nature from ordinary facts? What are the "lawmakers": the facts in virtue of which the laws are laws? How can laws be necessary, yet contingent? Lange provocatively argues that laws are distinguished by their necessity, which is grounded in primitive subjunctive facts, while also providing a non-technical and accessible survey of the field.
Author : C DeLisle Burns
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2023-09-14
Category :
ISBN :
"The Contact Between Minds: A Metaphysical Hypothesis" by Cecil Delisle Burns is a thought-provoking book that explores the fascinating concept of mind-to-mind communication. Burns, a respected philosopher, delves into the realms of metaphysics to propose a hypothesis that challenges conventional notions of communication and the boundaries of human consciousness. With meticulous reasoning and deep philosophical inquiry, Burns presents his ideas on how minds may connect and exchange information beyond the limitations of traditional communication channels. This book invites readers to contemplate the mysteries of the human mind and opens up new possibilities for understanding the interconnectedness of consciousness.
Author : Jenny Pelletier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9004230165
In William Ockham on Metaphysics, Jenny Pelletier offers an account of Ockham's concept of metaphysics as it emerges throughout his philosophical and theological work. She argues that Ockham (c. 1287-1347) believed metaphysics to be a fruitful branch of philosophy and gives a preliminary description of its distinctive subject-matter. Metaphysics is the science that studies all beings and their most general properties. Ockham was considered by some to be profoundly skeptical of metaphysics. Recent scholarship tends to focus on regional metaphysical issues (e.g. universals, relations), logic or semantics, theory of cognition, concepts, mental language. Jenny Pelletier provides a positive interpretation of Ockham on metaphysics as such that enriches our current understanding of this seminal medieval thinker.
Author : Daniel N. Robinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1441148515
A concise commentary on Kant's aims and arguments in his celebrated First Critique, within the context of the dominant schools of philosophy of his time.
Author : Blake E. Hestir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107132320
Blake E. Hestir's examination of Plato's conception of truth challenges a long tradition of interpretation in ancient scholarship.