General Theory Of Knowledge

Author : M. Schlick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 433 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783709130995

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General Theory of Knowledge by M. Schlick Pdf

to that goal, and it is hoped that it will incorporate further works dealing in an exact way with interesting philosophical issues. Zürich, April 1973 Mario Bunge From the Preface to the First Edition It may seem odd that aseries of works devoted to the natural sciences should indude - indeed begin with - a volume on phi losophy. Today, of course, it is generally agreed that philosophy and natural science are perfectly compatible. But to grant the theory of knowledge such a prominent position implies not only that these two fields are compatible, but that there is a natural connection between them. Thus the indusion of this book in the series can be justified only if such an intimate relation of mutual dependence and interpenetration really does exist. Without anticipating what is to come, the author would like first to explain his point of view on the relationship between epistemology and the sciences, and in so doing make dear at the outset the method to be followed in this book. It is my view - which I have already expressed elsewhere and which I never tire of repeating - that philosophy is not aseparate science to be placed alongside of or above the individual disciplines. Rather, the philosophical element is present in all of the scienccs; it is their true soul, and only by virtue of it are they sciences at all.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800080027

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On Learning by David Scott Pdf

This is a philosophical work that develops a general theory of ontological objects and object-relations. It does this by examining concepts as acquired dispositions, and then focuses on perhaps the most important of these: the concept of learning. This concept is important because everything that we know and do in the world is predicated on a prior act of learning. A concept can have many meanings and can be used in a number of different ways, and this creates difficulty when considering the nature of objects and the relationships between them. To enable this, David Scott answers a series of questions about concepts in general and the concept of learning in particular. Some of these questions are: What is learning? What different meanings can be given to the notion of learning? How does the concept of learning relate to other concepts, such as innatism, development and progression? The book offers a counter-argument to empiricist conceptions of learning, to the propagation of simple messages about learning, knowledge, curriculum and assessment, and to the denial that values are central to understanding how we live. It argues that values permeate everything: our descriptions of the world, the attempts we make at creating better futures and our relations with other people.

Author : K. Anders Ericsson,Jacqui Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521406129

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Toward a General Theory of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson,Jacqui Smith Pdf

During the last twenty years our understanding of expertise has dramatically increased. Laboratory analysis of chess masters, experts in physics and medicine, musicians, athletics, writers, and performance artists have included careful examination of the cognitive processes mediating outstanding performance in very diverse areas of expertise. These analyses have shown that expert performance is primarily a reflection of acquired skill resulting from the accumulation of domain-specific knowledge and methods during many years of training practice. The importance of domain-specific knowledge has led researchers on expertise to focus on characteristics of expertise in specific domains. In Toward a General Theory of Expertise many of the world's foremost scientists review the state-of-the-art knowledge about expertise in different domains, with the goal of identifying characteristics of expert performance that are generalizable across many different areas of expertise. These essays provide a comprehensive summary of general methods for studying expertise and of current knowledge about expertise in chess, physics, medicine, sports and performance arts, music, writing, and decision making. Most important, the essays reveal the existence of many general characteristics of expertise.

Author : Noah Lemos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521842131

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An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge by Noah Lemos Pdf

Epistemology or the theory of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of analytic philosophy, and this book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the subject. It discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism, and virtue epistemology. Other topics include the Gettier problem, internalism and externalism, skepticism, the problem of epistemic circularity, the problem of the criterion, a priori knowledge, and naturalized epistemology. Intended primarily for students taking a first class in epistemology, this lucid and well-written text would also provide an excellent introduction for anyone interested in knowing more about this important area of philosophy.

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509512409

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An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge by Dan O'Brien Pdf

An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd Edition guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates. The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses the concept of knowledge and distinguishes between different types of knowledge. Part II surveys the sources of knowledge, considering both a priori and a posteriori knowledge. Parts III and IV provide an in-depth discussion of justification and scepticism. The final part of the book examines our alleged knowledge of the past, other minds, morality and God. In this extensively revised second edition there are expanded sections on epistemic luck, social epistemology and contextualism, and there are new sections on the contemporary debates concerning the lottery paradox, pragmatic encroachment, peer disagreement, safety, sensitivity and virtue epistemology. Engaging examples are used throughout the book, many taken from literature and the cinema. Complex issues, such as those concerning the private language argument, non-conceptual content, and the new riddle of induction, are explained in a clear and accessible way. This textbook is an invaluable guide to contemporary epistemology.

Author : Edmund Husserl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030145293

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Logic and General Theory of Science by Edmund Husserl Pdf

The stated subject of these lecture courses given by Husserlbetween 1910 and 1918is ‘reason, the word for the mental activities and accomplishments that govern knowledge, give it form and supply it with norms.’ They show their author still pursuing the course set out in the Logical Investigations up to the end of the second decade of the century and displaying utter consistency with stands that he began taking on meaning, analyticity, Platonism, manifolds, mathematics, psychologism, etc. in the 1890s. Thus, they undermine many idées reçues about the development of his thought. The centerpiece of this work is an exploration of the realm of meaning. Moreover, they add new dimensions to standard discussions by taking readers back to the place where phenomenology and analytic philosophy diverged. They show that Husserl tangled long and hard with the very ideas that went into the making of the latter and offer a wealth of interesting insights into sense and meaning, theory of judgment, complete and incomplete meanings, states of affairs, extensional logic, the relationship between logic and mathematics, functions and arguments, propositional functions, quantification, existential generalization, the word ‘all,’ number theory, sets, modality, deductive theory, ideas that are still under discussion today. Prepared for oral delivery in the classroom, they are refreshingly lively and spontaneous. They are clearer, more explicit, and readable than the books Husserl published during his lifetime.

Author : Kofi Kissi Dompere
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030181598

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A General Theory of Entropy by Kofi Kissi Dompere Pdf

This book presents an epistemic framework for dealing with information-knowledge and certainty-uncertainty problems within the space of quality-quantity dualities. It bridges between theoretical concepts of entropy and entropy measurements, proposing the concept and measurement of fuzzy-stochastic entropy that is applicable to all areas of knowing under human cognitive limitations over the epistemological space. The book builds on two previous monographs by the same author concerning theories of info-statics and info-dynamics, to deal with identification and transformation problems respectively. The theoretical framework is developed by using the toolboxes such as those of the principle of opposites, systems of actual-potential polarities and negative-positive dualities, under different cost-benefit time-structures. The category theory and the fuzzy paradigm of thought, under methodological constructionism-reductionism duality, are used in the fuzzy-stochastic and cost-benefit spaces to point to directions of global application in knowing, knowledge and decision-choice actions. Thus, the book is concerned with a general theory of entropy, showing how the fuzzy paradigm of thought is developed to deal with the problems of qualitative-quantitative uncertainties over the fuzzy-stochastic space, which will be applicable to conditions of soft-hard data, fact, evidence and knowledge over the spaces of problem-solution dualities, decision-choice actions in sciences, non-sciences, engineering and planning sciences to abstract acceptable information-knowledge elements.

Author : Ralph Barton Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674430379

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General Theory of Value by Ralph Barton Perry Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Thomas Lewis,Fari Amini,Richard Lannon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307424341

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A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis,Fari Amini,Richard Lannon Pdf

This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain. A General Theory of Love demonstrates that our nervous systems are not self-contained: from earliest childhood, our brains actually link with those of the people close to us, in a silent rhythm that alters the very structure of our brains, establishes life-long emotional patterns, and makes us, in large part, who we are. Explaining how relationships function, how parents shape their child’s developing self, how psychotherapy really works, and how our society dangerously flouts essential emotional laws, this is a work of rare passion and eloquence that will forever change the way you think about human intimacy.

Author : Shelby D. Hunt
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781452221649

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A General Theory of Competition by Shelby D. Hunt Pdf

Hunt convincingly demonstrates that competition is not about dividing up limited resources but about creating more resources and thus competition is pro-society. This truly interdisciplinary book successfully develops a general theory of competition which is rich in explanatory breadth and depth. Consequently, executives and entrepreneuers, management consultants, public makers, and scholars and students in economics, law, political science, and business should read and study this book. —Robert F. Lusch, University of Oklahoma This book develops a new theory of competition. This theory – labeled "resource-advantage theory" – stems from no single research tradition, but draws on several different traditions in economics, management, marketing, and sociology. In this ground-breaking volume, Shelby Hunt articulates R-A theory, uses the theory to explain and predict economic phenomena, and shows how (and why) it explains and predicts such phenomena.

Author : Anthony Douglas Woozley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UOM:39015048990132

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Theory of Knowledge by Anthony Douglas Woozley Pdf

Author : Moritz Schlick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9027724652

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The Problems of Philosophy in Their Interconnection by Moritz Schlick Pdf

Author : Paul K. Moser,Dwayne Mulder,J. D. Trout
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195094662

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The Theory of Knowledge by Paul K. Moser,Dwayne Mulder,J. D. Trout Pdf

An introduction to contemporary epistemology, which utilizes traditional methods of epistemological inquiry in the context of contemporary debates about the definition, sources and limits of human knowledge. The authors relate epistemology to work in cognitive science and defend a plausible version of explationism regarding epistemological method.

Author : Steve Fuller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226268969

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Thomas Kuhn by Steve Fuller Pdf

This work discusses whether Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was revolutionary. Steve Fuller argues that Kuhn held a profoundly conservative view of science and how one ought to study its history.

Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521367697

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The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz by Nicholas Jolley Pdf

The most comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought.