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In this introduction to epistemology, Michael Williams explains and criticises traditional philosophical theories of the nature, limits, methods, possibility, and value of knowing.
Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192892560
In this introduction to epistemology, Michael Williams explains and criticises traditional philosophical theories of the nature, limits, methods, possibility, and value of knowing.
Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher : Viking Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780140135473
Author : Charles B. Guignon
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780915145621
What Guignon does, very skillfully, is to use the problem of knowledge as a focus for organizing a discussion of Heidegger's thought in its entirety. . . . Places him squarely within the philosophical tradition he struggled to overcome and provides an account of his development from Being and Time to the last writings.
Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135626839
In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge – as ‘...a child of crises, above all of ...the crisis of physics.’ Finally available in English, it is a major contribution to the philosophy of science, epistemology and twentieth century philosophy generally. The two fundamental problems of knowledge that lie at the centre of the book are the problem of induction, that although we are able to observe only a limited number of particular events, science nevertheless advances unrestricted universal statements; and the problem of demarcation, which asks for a separating line between empirical science and non-science. Popper seeks to solve these two basic problems with his celebrated theory of falsifiability, arguing that the inferences made in science are not inductive but deductive; science does not start with observations and proceed to generalise them but with problems, which it attacks with bold conjectures. The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge is essential reading for anyone interested in Karl Popper, in the history and philosophy of science, and in the methods and theories of science itself.
Author : Ernst Cassirer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 1950-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300010985
"Cassirer employs his remarkable gift of lucidity to explain the major ideas and intellectual issues that emerged in the course of nineteenth century scientific and historical thinking. The translators have done an excellent job in reproducing his clarity in English. There is no better place for an intelligent reader to find out, with a minimum of technical language, what was really happening during the great intellectual movement between the age of Newton and our own."-- New York Times. -- Publisher description.
Author : Stephen Cade Hetherington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 10,60 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 : Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2003-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139442287
Epistemology has for a long time focused on the concept of knowledge and tried to answer questions such as whether knowledge is possible and how much of it there is. Often missing from this inquiry, however, is a discussion on the value of knowledge. In The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding Jonathan Kvanvig argues that epistemology properly conceived cannot ignore the question of the value of knowledge. He also questions one of the most fundamental assumptions in epistemology, namely that knowledge is always more valuable than the value of its subparts. Taking Platos' Meno as a starting point of his discussion, Kvanvig tackles the different arguments about the value of knowledge and comes to the conclusion that knowledge is less valuable than generally assumed. Clearly written and well argued, this 2003 book will appeal to students and professionals in epistemology.
Author : Andrea Kern
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674416112
How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge, since the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong? Andrea Kern argues that we can disarm this skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a rational capacity. In this book, she develops a metaphysics of the mind as existing through knowledge of itself.
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192854232
This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Knowledge, Sociology of
ISBN :
Originally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lectures in memory of Bertrand Russell, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom is an erudite and cogent synthesis of Noam Chomsky's moral philosophy, linguistic analysis, and emergent political critique of America's war in Vietnam. In the first half of this wide-ranging work, Chomsky takes up Russell's lifelong search for the empirical principles of human understanding, in a philosophical overview referencing Hume, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, and others. In the following half, aptly-titled "On Changing the World," Chomsky applies these concepts to the issues that would remain the focus of his increasingly political work of the period. These include the war in Indochina and the Cold War ideology that supported it, the centralization of U.S. decision-making in the Pentagon and the growing influence of multinational corporations in those circles, the politicization of American universities in the post-World War II years, along with his reflections on the Cuban missile crisis and the mass liberation movements of the era. This is the third in a series of Chomsky's early political books reissued by The New Press. The others are American Power and the New Mandarins and For Reasons of State. Book jacket.