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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. His work continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, cultural criticism……続きを見る

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason. The first part of the book introduces some popular ideas and problems concerning causal and dispositional approaches of ac……続きを見る

This book has grown out of an attempt to harmonize two different tendencies, one in psychology, the other in physics, with both of which I find myself in sympathy, although at first sight they might……続きを見る

This book presents many of epistemology's main ideas in a way that will help students understand the central primary writings in epistemology, providing puzzles and questions about epistemological t……続きを見る

The question of nihilism is always a question of truth. It is a crisis of truth that causes the experience of the nothingness of existence. What elevated truth to this existential position? The answ……続きを見る

In reading these two essays we are apt to be deceived, by their virulent and forcible tone, into believing that the whole matter is a mere cover for hidden fire,-a mere blind of æsthetic discussion ……続きを見る

A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmasーfrom a preeminent German thinker It is widely agreed that we live in an “information age,” but what exactly is information? This……続きを見る

If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal ru……続きを見る

This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.F. Skinner can be applied to describe and explain cultural practices phenomena produced by complex relations between behavior and……続きを見る

This volume offers unique perspectives on how to engage in methods of inquiry in Political Science. Applying the debate in the field over the validity of qualitative methods, the authors illustrate ……続きを見る

One of the most fruitful interdisciplinary boundaries in contemporary scholarship is that between philosophy and cognitive science. Now that solid empirical results about the activities of the human……続きを見る

This book explains exactly what human knowledge is. The key concepts in this book are structures and algorithms, i.e., what the readers “see” and how they make use of what they see. Thus in comparis……続きを見る

Sanford C. Goldberg argues in this volume that epistemic normativity - the sort of normativity implicated in assessments of whether a belief amounts to knowledge - is grounded in the things we prope……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by ……続きを見る

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy ……続きを見る

Die Abhandlung über die Empfindungen von Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk im Bereich der Philosophie und Psychologie des 18. Jahrhunderts. In diesem Buch untersucht Condillac ……続きを見る

The question of the a prioriーcan an adequate epistemology be developed without appeal to a non-empirical source of justification?ーis a core issue running throughout the history of philosophy, and ……続きを見る

Un ouvrage d'épistémologie historique. Épistémologie française, cela peut signifier deux choses. C’est d’une part une entité géographique (l’ensemble des épistémologues de langue et de culture franç……続きを見る

The current volume represents an exciting collection of essays critically examining the relation between modern science and Lacanian psychoanalysis in approaching the question of mental suffering. L……続きを見る

Pourquoi l’activité scientifique est-elle conflictuelle ? Brisant l’image idéale de la science consensuelle, les controverses scientifiques sont aujourd’hui devenues un sujet privilégié de la sociol……続きを見る

We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era ……続きを見る

Sensibility in the Early Modern Era investigates how the early modern characterisation of sensibility as a natural property of the body could give way to complex considerations about the importance ……続きを見る

What strength of evidence is required for knowledge? Ordinarily, we often claim to know something on the basis of evidence which doesn't guarantee its truth. For instance, one might claim to know th……続きを見る

A thought-provoking book for the discerning reader of times, searching for all the answers for coasting along with life freely. In the midst of advancing science and technology which is being thrust……続きを見る

Have you ever called yourself a "pragmatist"? Have you ever wondered what that means? Aaron Zimmerman traces the origins of pragmatism to a theory of belief defended by the nineteenth-century Scotti……続きを見る

Disappointed by the public reception to “A Treatise of Human Nature”, published anonymously between 1739 and 1740, David Hume decided to produce a shorter more polemic version of that work nearly te……続きを見る

Lacan critiqued imaginary intuition for confusing direct perception with unconscious pre-conceptions about people and the world. The emphasis on description goes hand in hand with a rejection of the……続きを見る

When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He ……続きを見る

Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political sci……続きを見る

This anthology of selections from the works of noted philosophers affords the student an immediate contact with the unique historical background of the philosophy of science. The selections, many of……続きを見る