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SHORT STORIES: The Wasteland by Marc Schooley He lives in a bubble. It’s a nice artificial 72 degrees year-round. Because it’s that or the death moss. Welcome to Houston’s future, where a lone ……続きを見る

This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian condit……続きを見る

What can we know and what should we believe about today's world? What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues applies the concerns and techniques of epistemology to a wide varie……続きを見る

A Letter from a Gentleman by David Hume The position was to be vacated by John Pringle, and the leading candidates were Hume and William Cleghorn. The Edinburgh Town Council was responsible for elec……続きを見る

Detailed presentation of American philosopher's pragmatic concept of epistemology, isolation of realms of existents and subsistents. Chapters include "There is No First Principle of Criticism," Dogm……続きを見る

If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed b……続きを見る

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The scope of John Dewey's writings ー ranging from aesthetics and education to legal and political theory ー and his role in the development of twentieth-century philosophy have helped make him a co……続きを見る

Willard Van Orman Quine's work revolutionized the fields of epistemology, semantics and ontology. At the heart of his philosophy are several interconnected doctrines: his rejection of conventionalis……続きを見る

Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world. It is highly controversial what the nature of vagueness is - a feature of the way we represent real……続きを見る

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Locke in just one hour. Much of Locke’s thought we would now regard as common sense. One of the most influential of Enlighten……続きを見る

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Discover Plato is a short, si……続きを見る

This book sets out first to explain how two fairly recent developments in philosophy, externalism and modalism, provide the basis for a promising account of knowledge, and then works through the dif……続きを見る

James Madison wrote, 'Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob'. The contributors to this volume discuss and for the most part challenge this c……続きを見る

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Descartes in just one hour. Descartes was the first modern philosopher. His scepticism led him to doubt all certainties, unti……続きを見る

Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand oppo……続きを見る

In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and……続きを見る

The internalism-externalism debate is one of the oldest debates in epistemology. Internalists assert that the justification of our beliefs can only depend on facts internal to us, while externalists……続きを見る

Where did God come from? Where did He go? What did science inherit from religion? Why does any of this matter? Beyond Reason is a plea for tolerance and understanding in the guise of a 3,000 year……続きを見る

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Russell in just one hour. Bertrand Russell claimed to be driven by three great passions that drove his personal as well as hi……続きを見る

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Kant in just one hour. Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never travelled farther than ……続きを見る

Although scholars from many disciplines have turned their attention to Russell’s work and appraised its significance for a number of fields, and an extensive literature on him emerged, until this bo……続きを見る

Remarkable for its breadth and profundity, this work combines aspects of psychology, logic, moral philosophy, and history to form a comprehensive view that encompasses all forms of civilization. Its……続きを見る

Jamin Asay's book offers a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question 'What is truth?', with a comprehensive articulation and defence of primitivism, the view that truth is a fundamental a……続きを見る

We can see a theft, hear a lie, and feel a stabbing. These are morally important perceptions. But are they also moral perceptions--distinctively moral responses? In this book, Robert Audi develops a……続きを見る

According to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular facts. It is, he argues, far superior to art, where much of the knowledge is inta……続きを見る

This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know something? How do we cons……続きを見る

We know about our immediate environmentーabout the people, animals, and things around usーby having sensory perceptions. According to a tradition that traces back to Plato, we know about abstract re……続きを見る

Renato Descartes parte del sujeto, del mí mismo, y le atribuye la capacidad del conocimiento. Su Cogito, ergo sum (pienso, luego existo) es la suprema síntesis de su racionalismo. Descartes inicia s……続きを見る

El pensamiento idealista cartesiano es reconocido por los historiadores de la filosofía como el puente entre el Renacimiento y la Edad Moderna. El Renacimiento se interesó en la subjetividad del hom……続きを見る