Knowledge, Truth, and Duty

Knowledge, Truth, and Duty

Author: Matthias Steup

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-03-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 019802956X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume gathers eleven new and three previously unpublished essays that take on questions of epistemic justification, responsibility, and virtue. It contains the best recent work in this area by major figures such as Ernest Sosa, Robert Audi, Alvin Goldman, and Susan Haak.


Knowledge, Truth, and Duty

Knowledge, Truth, and Duty

Author: Matthias Steup

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0195128923

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This text examines epistemic duty, doxastic voluntarism, the normativity of justification, internalism versus externalism, truth as the epistemic goal, and scepticism and the search for justification.


Donald Davidson

Donald Davidson

Author: Urszula M. Zeglen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1999-02-25

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1134658885

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Donald Davidson has made enormous contributions to the philosophy of action, epistemology, semantics and philosophy of mind and today is recognized as one of the most important analytical philosophers of the late twentieth century. Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge addresses * Davidson's writings on epistemology and theory of language with their implications of ontology and philosophy of mind * the central issue of whether truth is the ultimate goal of enquiry, challenged by contributions from Richard Rorty and Paul Horwich * Davidson's approach to semantics and applied linguistics as addressed by Kirk Ludwig, Gabriel Segal, Peter Pagin, Stephen Neale, Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore and Reinaldo Elugardo * Davidson's advances in the philosophy of mind in relation to the views of Williard V. Quine, John McDowell and Peter F. Strawson, in essays by Roger Gibson and Anita Avramides


The Right to Know

The Right to Know

Author: Lani Watson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-26

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 0429798431

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the right to know and other epistemic rights: rights to goods such as information, knowledge, and truth.


What's the Point of Knowledge?

What's the Point of Knowledge?

Author: Michael J. Hannon

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0190914726

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is about knowledge and its value. The central hypothesis is that humans think and speak of knowing in order to identify reliable informants, which is vital for human survival, cooperation, and flourishing. This simple idea is used to answer an array of complex and consequential philosophical questions.


Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental

Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental

Author: Gerhard Preyer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0199697515

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume offers a reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and language, Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.


Duty

Duty

Author: Robert M. Gates

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 0307959481

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.


Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy

Author: Guy Axtell

Publisher:

Published: 2022-01-26

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781989014264

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology engages first-time philosophy readers on a guided tour through the core concepts, questions, methods, arguments, and theories of epistemology-the branch of philosophy devoted to the study of knowledge. After a brief overview of the field, the book progresses systematically while placing central ideas and thinkers in historical and contemporary context. The chapters cover the analysis of knowledge, the nature of epistemic justification, rationalism vs. empiricism, skepticism, the value of knowledge, the ethics of belief, Bayesian epistemology, social epistemology, and feminist epistemologies. Along the way, instructors and students will encounter a wealth of additional resources and tools: Chapter learning outcomes Key terms Images of philosophers and related art Useful diagrams and tables Boxes containing excerpts and other supplementary material Questions for reflection Suggestions for further reading A glossary For an undergraduate survey epistemology course, Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology is ideal when used as a main text paired with primary sources and scholarly articles. For an introductory philosophy course, select book chapters are best used in combination with chapters from other books in the Introduction to Philosophy series: https: //www1.rebus.community/#/project/4ec7ecce-d2b3-4f20-973c-6b6502e7cbb2.


Moral Knowledge

Moral Knowledge

Author: Sarah McGrath

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0198805411

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How fragile is our knowledge of morality, compared to other kinds of knowledge? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds? Sarah McGrath offers new answers to these questions as she explores the possibilities, sources and characteristic vulnerabilities of moral knowledge.