Author : Clarence Irving Lewis
Publisher : READ BOOKS
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781406751673
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Jennifer Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019966126X
What is knowledge? Is it the same as opinion or truth? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these have existed since ancient times, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Nagel considers the central problems and paradoxes in the theory of knowledge and draws attention to the ways in which philosophers and theorists have responded to them. By exploring the relationship between knowledge and truth, and considering the problem of scepticism, Nagel introduces a series of influential historical and contemporary theories of knowledge, incorporating methods from logic, linguistics, and psychology, using a number of everyday examples to demonstrate the key issues and debates. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Clarence Lewis Irving
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1446545628
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Guy Axtell
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2022-01-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781989014264
Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology engages first-time philosophy readers on a guided tour through the core concepts, questions, methods, arguments, and theories of epistemology-the branch of philosophy devoted to the study of knowledge. After a brief overview of the field, the book progresses systematically while placing central ideas and thinkers in historical and contemporary context. The chapters cover the analysis of knowledge, the nature of epistemic justification, rationalism vs. empiricism, skepticism, the value of knowledge, the ethics of belief, Bayesian epistemology, social epistemology, and feminist epistemologies. Along the way, instructors and students will encounter a wealth of additional resources and tools: Chapter learning outcomes Key terms Images of philosophers and related art Useful diagrams and tables Boxes containing excerpts and other supplementary material Questions for reflection Suggestions for further reading A glossary For an undergraduate survey epistemology course, Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology is ideal when used as a main text paired with primary sources and scholarly articles. For an introductory philosophy course, select book chapters are best used in combination with chapters from other books in the Introduction to Philosophy series: https: //www1.rebus.community/#/project/4ec7ecce-d2b3-4f20-973c-6b6502e7cbb2.
Author : Carl B Sachs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317317599
Intentionality is one of the central problems of modern philosophy. How can a thought, action or belief be about something? Sachs draws on the work of Wilfrid Sellars, C I Lewis and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to build a new theory of intentionality that solves many of the problems faced by traditional conceptions.
Author : Rik Peels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107175607
The book provides a thorough exploration of the epistemic dimensions of ignorance: what is ignorance and what are its varieties?
Author : Michael J. Hannon
Publisher :
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190914726
This book is about knowledge and its value. The central hypothesis is that humans think and speak of knowing in order to identify reliable informants, which is vital for human survival, cooperation, and flourishing. This simple idea is used to answer an array of complex and consequential philosophical questions.
Author : Miranda Fricker
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191519308
In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in order to reveal the ethical dimension of our epistemic practices the focus must shift to injustice. Fricker adjusts the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. The book explores two different types of epistemic injustice, each driven by a form of prejudice, and from this exploration comes a positive account of two corrective ethical-intellectual virtues. The characterization of these phenomena casts light on many issues, such as social power, prejudice, virtue, and the genealogy of knowledge, and it proposes a virtue epistemological account of testimony. In this ground-breaking book, the entanglements of reason and social power are traced in a new way, to reveal the different forms of epistemic injustice and their place in the broad pattern of social injustice.
Author : Stephen Cade Hetherington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2016-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107149568
This book enriches our understanding of knowledge and Gettier's challenge, stimulating debate on a central epistemological issue.
Author : Laura Candiotto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030156672
This innovative new volume analyses the role of emotions in knowledge acquisition. It focuses on the field of philosophy of emotions at the exciting intersection between epistemology and philosophy of mind and cognitive science to bring us an in-depth analysis of the epistemological value of emotions in reasoning. With twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming academics, this edited collection shows that emotions do count for our epistemic enterprise. Against scepticism about the possible positive role emotions play in knowledge, the authors highlight the how and the why of this potential, lucidly exploring the key aspects of the functionality of emotions. This is explored in relation to: specific kinds of knowledge such as self-understanding, group-knowledge and wisdom; specific functions played by certain emotions in these cases, such as disorientation in enquiry and contempt in practical reason; the affective experience of the epistemic subjects and communities.
