Eric - Epistemology 1

Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas's latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts on the big questions surrounding……続きを見る

It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for both to be true. This impossibility is a species of rational necessit……続きを見る

Analyticity, or the 'analytic/synthetic' distinction is one of the most important and controversial problems in contemporary philosophy. It is also essential to understanding many developments in lo……続きを見る

Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology. In this groundbreaking new book, Eric Olson argue……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

We often rely on others for guidance about what to do. But wouldn't it be better to rely instead on only your own solo judgment? Deferring to others about moral matters, after all, can seem to confl……続きを見る

In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. They begin with Dewey’s critique of the «philosophical fallacy» to examine ……続きを見る

UNTHINK, All You Have To Do Is Nothingis about unblocking the subconscious and allowing it to guide your navigation of this reality. Thinking requires focus, but unthinking demands more: choosing co……続きを見る

How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarreーand why that’s a good thing Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket unive……続きを見る

This book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobilises questions present in the philosophy of scie……続きを見る

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book is the first to develop explicit methods for evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the field of medicine. It explains why it can be important……続きを見る

Philosophy is the search for the large patterns of the world and of the large patterns of experience, perceptual, theoretical, . . . , aesthetic, and practical - the patterns that, regardless of spe……続きを見る

Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and p……続きを見る

Are beliefs in God and in the soul merely relics of pre-scientific superstition? After all, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesthe so-called age of sciencewe know that science can be proven ……続きを見る

Dopo secoli "logocentrici", si è prodotta una svolta "somatocentrica" della cultura occidentale. Numerose discipline, diverse per metodo e per statuto epistemologico, mostrano una significativa conv……続きを見る

Knowledge, from Plato onwards, has been considered in relation to justified belief. Current debate has centred around the nature of the justification and whether justified belief can be considered a……続きを見る

According to the received view in epistemology, inferential knowledge from non-knowledge is impossible - that is, in order for a subject to know the conclusion of their inference, they must know the……続きを見る

Metafisica dell’emergenza Negli ultimi anni, il richiamo al concetto di emergenza si è fatto sempre più diffuso in molte aree della filosofia e della scienza. Il termine viene usato per riferirsi al……続きを見る

Much of the recent confidence in the future of science and technology stems from advances in scientific visualisation. But is it right to assume that visual – and especially pictorial – measures car……続きを見る

Extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence. The mainstream and social media feed our minds a diet of fringe science and outright pseudoscience. They relentlessly stream paranormal, supernatural……続きを見る

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes? Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development - does that mean exposure ca……続きを見る

To claim to believe in God without accepting that God exists independently of human minds would mean reducing God to merely a human construct, thus not real enough for being the object of religious ……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

This book explores the problem of disagreement concerning the treatment of animals in a liberal society. Current laws include an unprecedented concern for animal welfare, yet disagreement remains pe……続きを見る

Winner of the Scribes Book Award “Displays a level of intellectual honesty one rarely encounters these days…This is delightful stuff.” ーBarton Swaim, Wall Street Journal “At a time when the concept……続きを見る

Identity criteria are powerful tools for the metaphysician. They tell us when items are identical or distinct. Some varieties of identity criteria also try to explain in virtue of what items are ide……続きを見る

Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817–1881) fut l’une des figures majeures de la philosophie allemande au XIXe siècle. Philosophe, logicien, psychologue, médecin, il a connu à son époque une renommée extraordi……続きを見る

In scholarly debates, as well as in everyday parlance, we tend to pull science and technology apart: science gives us theory, and technology applies it. In practice, however, science and technologie……続きを見る

O Discurso sobre o método, por vezes traduzido como Discurso do método, ou ainda Discurso sobre o método para bem conduzir a razão na busca da verdade dentro da ciência, é um tratado matemático e fi……続きを見る

This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the epistemological and theoretical foundations that engendered and sustain the field, drawing on insights and ……続きを見る