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Author: Marc Alspector-Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1108474020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a new and comprehensive defense of closure failure that is relevant to a wide variety of epistemic issues.
Author: John Hawthorne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0199269556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know a certain class of propositions while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. The text explores questions on the nature and importance of knowledge.
Author: Hilary Lawson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780415136501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLawson's radical new study about the nature of ourselves and the world challenges the dominant faith of today - science. Drawing on practical examples of closure, it exposes the central questions of contemporary philosophy.
Author: Kelly Becker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1107004233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides new thinking on the compelling subject of 'sensitivity' - a principle typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge.
Author: Allan Bloom
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1439126267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
Author: Alvin Plantinga
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0199812101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this long-awaited book, pre-eminent analytical philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.
Author: Duncan Pritchard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 019928038X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering a philosophical examination of the concept of luck and its relationship to knowledge, this text demonstrates how a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between knowledge and luck can enable us to see past some of the most intractable disputes in the contemporary theory of knowledge.
Author: Sven Bernecker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-01-19
Total Pages: 1252
ISBN-13: 1136882006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEpistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, is at the core of many of the central debates and issues in philosophy, interrogating the notions of truth, objectivity, trust, belief and perception. The Routledge Companion to Epistemology provides a comprehensive and the up-to-date survey of epistemology, charting its history, providing a thorough account of its key thinkers and movements, and addressing enduring questions and contemporary research in the field. Organized thematically, the Companion is divided into ten sections: Foundational Issues, The Analysis of Knowledge, The Structure of Knowledge, Kinds of Knowledge, Skepticism, Responses to Skepticism, Knowledge and Knowledge Attributions, Formal Epistemology, The History of Epistemology, and Metaepistemological Issues. Seventy-eight chapters, each between 5000 and 7000 words and written by the world’s leading epistemologists, provide students with an outstanding and accessible guide to the field. Designed to fit the most comprehensive syllabus in the discipline, this text will be an indispensible resource for anyone interested in this central area of philosophy. The Routledge Companion to Epistemology is essential reading for students of philosophy.
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1317260341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
Author: José Medina
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0199929025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.
