Epistemology 59

In Search of Our Origins presents new information on the origin of life and man, from linguistic analysis of Quran. It tells us how the first molecule of life arose on earth, what was the mechanism ……続きを見る

Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does interpretation go all the way down? Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think a……続きを見る

When we find Science, which has done so much and promised so much for the happiness of mankind, devoting so large a proportion of its resources to the destruction of human life, we are prone to ask ……続きを見る

This volume explores two traditions in practical philosophy: action theory, which concerns the nature of motivation for human action, and praxiology, the study of human action. By bringing different……続きを見る

The last decade has witnessed a particularly intensive debate over methodological issues in legal theory. The publication of Julie Dickson's Evaluation and Legal Theory (2001) was significant, as we……続きを見る

This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences. Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons' version of the characteristics des……続きを見る

Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philo-sophical essayists of the postwar era. A fearless at-tacker of intellectual and cultural o……続きを見る

Economic changes and political changes which emerged with the modern capitalist world-economy were accompanied in the sociocultural domain by changes in the structures of knowledge. These included t……続きを見る

Platons Werk 'Das Gastmahl' ist ein Meisterwerk der antiken Literatur, das sich mit philosophischen Diskussionen über Liebe, Schönheit und Wissen befasst. Durch einen Dialog zwischen verschiedenen C……続きを見る

Social scientists explain events by identifying reasons and causes. Occasionally they weave a series of events into a historical narrative. What is entailed in each kind of explanation? What form of……続きを見る

This monograph offers a fresh perspective on the applicability of mathematics in science. It explores what mathematics must be so that its applications to the empirical world do not constitute a mys……続きを見る

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy and marks a turning point and the beginning of modern philosophy. Also referred to as Kant's "first crit……続きを見る

This book employs a new eco-cognitive model of abduction to underline the distributed and embodied nature of scientific cognition. Its main focus is on the knowledge-enhancing virtues of abduction a……続きを見る

The Discourse on the Method is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of S……続きを見る

Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment. Unique among treatments of Adam Smith, Schliesser's book treats him as a sys……続きを見る

Contemporary interest in realism and naturalism, emerging under the banner of speculative or new realism, has prompted continentally-trained philosophers to consider a number of texts from the canon……続きを見る

New Book Cracks Code ー The Secret Behind Our Perceptions Finally Revealed. . . and More! Is it okay to fantasize during sex? When should you follow your intuition and gut feelings? How do the most ……続きを見る

In Using Knowledge: On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine Ingemar Nordin analyses the philosophical problems and nature of science, technology, and medicine. The main focus of the ……続きを見る

This book investigates the central metaphysics and epistemology of Advaita. Although the vastness of Advaita literature has grown to immense proportions, there has been a glaring lacuna in unravelin……続きを見る

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one of the major figures of the century in the developme……続きを見る

Education's Epistemology extends and further defends Harvey Siegel's "reasons conception" of critical thinking. It analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality, and the dispositions and charac……続きを見る

Vagueness, volume XX, contains twenty-seven essays, with issues covered including: nihilism, phenomenal sorites, degrees of truth, epistemicism, higher-order vagueness, contextualism, and intuitioni……続きを見る

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they directly access their subjects' ideas. Both must be inferred from the remnants of the material objects they made and used.……続きを見る

Post-Analytic Tractatus establishes Wittgenstein's early work in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as an invaluable source for exploring current debate on analytic philosophy in its origins, histor……続きを見る

The past few years have witnessed an exponentially growing body of work conducted under the ‘second person’ heading. This idea has been explored in various areas of philosophy (philosophy of mind, p……続きを見る

Análisis y evaluación de la vigencia del pragmatismo en los distintos terrenos en los que ha trascendido, pero sin dejar de lado las raíces históricas de las que se nutre. Desde fines del siglo XX e……続きを見る

Dieciséis ensayos dedicados a la discusión de problemas vinculados a la prueba, la argumentación y la justicia. El libro está dividido en tres partes. La primera analiza la argumentación en materia ……続きを見る

Ensayos en los que se plantea la estrecha relación que existe entre el psicoanálisis y la filosofía al tratar los mismos fenómenos. En 1962, Wilfred Bion introdujo el concepto de visión binocular en……続きを見る

Uno de los rasgos predominantes del llamado "proceso de secularización" fue la fractura entre el orden racional y el orden religioso, es decir, la desvalorización epistemológica y ética de la religi……続きを見る

In 'Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde' taucht der Leser in die philosophische Welt von Arthur Schopenhauer ein. Schopenhauer analysiert den Satz vom zureichenden Grunde, d……続きを見る