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'Oh, no, not another philosophy book!' After twenty-six centuries of reflecting and writing, what can be said about philosophy that hasn't already been said? This book is different because it is written for students who are not interested in philosophy or who are struggling to understand it. Professor Malikow makes it easy to understand the sophisticated ideas and profound truths of philosophy by his use of everyday language, analogies, examples,...
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Epistemology: A Short Introduction
Explore the fascinating realm of Epistemology with "Epistemology: A Short Introduction," a concise and accessible guide to the study of knowledge, belief, and justification.
"Epistemology: A Short Introduction" is characterized by its reader-friendly style, avoiding unnecessary jargon while still providing intellectual rigor. The author presents complex ideas in a clear and concise manner, making this book accessible...
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The Immaterial Structure of Human Experience is a philosophical work, a system. It is a quest into the workings of the human mind from the perspective of epistemology and philosophy of mind. Focusing on human experience from a subjective point of view, it does not attempt the kind of empirical approach which would be centered in the senses, as would be the case with one of the sciences.
Instead, the book argues that although we experience our conscious...
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Qu'est-ce que percevoir l'espace? Qu'est-ce que percevoir le temps? Comment se rend-on compte de l'espace qui nous entoure et qui change avec le temps qui s'écoule?La conquête de l'espace, et donc la réalité d'un espace plus vaste que celui accessible directement à nos sens, commence avec Pilâtre de Rozier et sa Montgolfière, se poursuit avec l'avion, le spoutnik, Gagarine en orbite et Amstrong dans la lune. Mars est aujourd'hui en ligne de...
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Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.
In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook...
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Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of many scientific debates, Helen Longino finds that general accounts of scientific methodology cannot support this common belief. Focusing on the notion of evidence, the author argues that a methodology powerful enough to account for theories of any scope...
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This book contains all the famous stories, myths, beliefs, and scientific theories divided according to the continental principle.
Not knowing the meaning of one's existence leads to life becoming like a wreck that the winds of circumstances frantically toss against the rocks of depression and meaninglessness.
Man has always wondered and tried to explain how the world was created and who we are. The interest in the first beginning goes beyond reasonable,...
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Michael N. Forster is professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. His books include Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar (Princeton), Hegel's Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit, and Hegel and Skepticism.
This book puts forward a much-needed reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the Critique of Pure Reason. It is widely recognized that Kant's theoretical philosophy aims...
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Richard Moran is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive...
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El libro "Puntos de vista entre Filosofía y escritura" es el resultado del proyecto de investigación sobre la formación de nuevos investigadores integrantes del Grupo Filosofía, educación y pedagogía. Expone a los investigadores en formación del grupo a un ejercicio problemático de producción, demostración, sustentación y escritura, bien sea como punto de partida o de llegada de investigaciones iniciales y avanzadas o de resultados, en...
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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," Dogma and Doubt," "Wayward Scepticism," "Doubts About Self-Consciousness," "Doubts About Change," "Ultimate Scepticism," "Nothing Given Exists," "Some Authorities for This Conclusion," and "The Discovery of Essence."
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Presents strikingly original and contemporary answers to the most traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political theory.
A work of maximally ambitious scope with a foundation in humility, Entanglements sets out a philosophical system of the sort rarely seen over the past century. In a discipline marked by greater and greater specialization and the narrowing of increasingly insular traditions and approaches,...
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La aparición de anomalías como resultado de un abrumador aumento de los datos debido a la irrupción de innovaciones en los instrumentos tecnológicos de detección produce un aumento drástico de la complejidad necesaria para dar cuenta de los fenómenos de cierta parte de la naturaleza conocidos hasta el momento, incluyendo las novedades inesperadas, y coloca a la teoría vigente en una situación de fragilidad en la que deben realizarse...
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Jacques Bouveresse is Professor of Philosophy at the Collège de France and the author of numerous works on Wittgenstein. Vincent Descombes is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy and usefulness of psychoanalysis,...
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Richard Foley is professor of philosophy and vice chancellor for strategic planning at New York University. He is the author of Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others,
Working Without a Net: A Study of Egocentric Epistemology, and The Theory of Epistemic Rationality.
A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her...
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Janet Broughton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Descartes thought that we could achieve absolute certainty by starting with radical doubt. He adopts this strategy in the Meditations on First Philosophy, where he raises sweeping doubts with the famous dream argument and the hypothesis of an evil demon. But why did Descartes think we should take these exaggerated doubts seriously? And if we do take them seriously,...
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Duncan Pritchard is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where he is the director of Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity. His books include Epistemic Luck and Epistemological Disjunctivism.
Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism-the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us.
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François Laruelle proposes a theory of identity rooted in scientific notions of symmetry and chaos, emancipating thought from the philosophical paradigm of Being and reconnecting it with the real world. Unlike most contemporary philosophers, Laruelle does not believe language, history, and the world shape identity but that identity determines our relation to these phenomena. Both critical and constructivist, Theory of Identities finds fault with...
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