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Author : Jean Story
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:HNU2IS
Author : Jennifer Trusted
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230378247
A short account of the philosophy of knowledge for students reading philosophy for the first time. It also serves as a general introduction to those interested in the subject. Jennifer Trusted examines the nature of philosophy as a subject for study and suggests that it has practical use as well as intellectual appeal since it is concerned with developing our understanding through critical appraisal of the concepts we use, so making our problems clear. Dr Trusted also looks at the approach of some of the leading philosophers of the western world to the philosophy of knowledge. The views of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant are considered. There are two chapters principally concerned with the views of the twentieth-century philosophers: A.J. Ayer and Norman Malcolm. The concluding chapter summarises the various approaches and the way they contribute to clarifying our ideas.
Author : James Fetzer,Robert F. Almeder
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015031780599
Epistemology is the study of ordinary knowledge in every day life. Philosophy of Science examines the nature of knowledge as it is discovered through scientific inquiry. Here is an accessible, down-to-earth reference for students, scholars, and general readers who want to understand both disciplines. Entries define key concepts and foreign terms, introduce major thinkers, and elucidate fine distinctions. Contents: preface; glossary; references; bibliography; about the authors.
Author : William Pepperell Montague
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : NWU:35556001123983
Author : Keith Hossack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191525759
The Metaphysics of Knowledge presents the thesis that knowledge is an absolutely fundamental relation, with an indispensable role to play in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind and language. Knowledge has been generally assumed to be a propositional attitude like belief. But Keith Hossack argues that knowledge is not a relation to a content; rather, it a relation to a fact. This point of view allows us to explain many of the concepts of philosophical logic in terms of knowledge. Hossack provides a theory of facts as structured combinations of particulars and universals, and presents a theory of content as the property of a mental act that determines its value for getting knowledge. He also defends a theory of representation in which the conceptual structure of a content is taken to picture the fact it represents. This permits definitions to be given of reference, truth, and necessity in terms of knowledge. Turning to the metaphysics of mind and language, Hossack argues that a conscious state is one that is identical with knowledge of its own occurrence. This allows us to characterise subjectivity, and, by illuminating the 'I'-concept, allows us to gain a better understanding of the concept of a person. Language is then explained in terms of knowledge, as a device used by a community of persons for exchanging knowledge by testimony. The Metaphysics of Knowledge concludes that knowledge is too fundamental to be constituted by something else, such as one's functional or physical state; other things may cause knowledge, but do not constitute it.
Author : G. S. Pappas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9027710244
With one exception, all of the papers in this volume were originally presented at a conference held in April, 1978, at The Ohio State University. The excep tion is the paper by Wilfrid Sellars, which is a revised version of a paper he originally published in the Journal of Philosophy, 1973. However, the present version of Sellars' paper is so thoroughly changed from its original, that it is now virtually a new paper. None of the other nine papers has been published previously. The bibliography, prepared by Nancy Kelsik, is very extensive and it is tempting to think that it is complete. But I believe that virtual com pleteness is more likely to prove correct. The conference was made possible by grants from the College of Human ities and the Graduate School, Ohio State University, as well as by a grant from the Philosophy Department. On behalf of the contributors, I want to thank these institutions for their support. I also want to thank Marshall Swain and Robert Turnbu~l for early help and encouragement; Bette Hellinger for assistance in setting up the confer ence; and Mary Raines and Virginia Foster for considerable aid in the pre paration of papers and many other conference matters. The friendly advice of the late James Cornman was also importantly helpful. April,1979 GEORGE S. PAPPAS ix INTRODUCTION The papers in this volume deal in different ways with the related issues of epistemic justification or warrant, and the analysis of factual knowledge.
Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134791811
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Stephen Hetherington,Markos Valaris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474258784
The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew by ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophers. This volume covers contemporary discussions about scientific, social and self-knowledge and attempts to understand knowledge naturalistically, contextually and normatively. With original insights into the vast sweep of ways in which philosophers have sought to understand knowledge, The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History embraces what is vital and evolving within contemporary epistemology. Overseen by an international team of leading philosophers and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters, this is a major collection on one of philosophy's defining topics.
Author : George Trumbull Ladd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NYPL:33433070235613
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783986479251
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, in which the author attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. He introduces philosophy as a repeating series of (failed) attempts to answer the same questions: Can we prove that there is an external world? Can we prove cause and effect? Can we validate any of our generalizations? Can we objectively justify morality? He asserts that philosophy cannot answer any of these questions and that any value of philosophy must lie elsewhere than in offering proofs to these questions.Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.Bertrand Russell was a British polymath. As an academic, he worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic. His work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, and various areas of analytic philosophy, especially philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He was a public intellectual, historian, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Author : Laurence BonJour
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674262157
How must our knowledge be systematically organized in order to justify our beliefs? There are two options—the solid securing of the ancient foundationalist pyramid or the risky adventure of the new coherentist raft. For the foundationalist like Descartes each piece of knowledge can be stacked to build a pyramid. Not so, argues Laurence BonJour. What looks like a pyramid is in fact a dead end, a blind alley. Better by far to choose the raft. Here BonJour sets out the most extensive antifoundationalist argument yet developed. The first part of the book offers a systematic exposition of foundationalist views and formulates a general argument to show that no variety of foundationalism provides an acceptable account of empirical justification. In the second part he explores a coherence theory of empirical knowledge and argues that a defensible theory must incorporate an adequate conception of observation. The book concludes with an account of the correspondence theory of empirical truth and an argument that systems of empirical belief which satisfy the coherentist standard of justification are also likely to be true.
Author : Timothy J. McGrew
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0822630427
Contemporary epistemology has been moving away from classical foundationalism--the thesis that our empirical knowledge is grounded in perceptual beliefs we know with certainty. McGrew reexamines classical foundationalism and offers a compelling reconstruction and defense of empirical knowledge grounded in perceptual certainty. He articulates and defends a new version of foundationalism and demonstrates how it meets all the standard criticisms. The book offers substantial rebuttals of the arguments of Kuhn and Rorty and demonstrates the value of the classical analytic approach to philosophy. Foundations will interest philosophers of science, language, and the mind.
Author : Jack S. Crumley II
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770486294
This book introduces the central issues of metaphysics and epistemology, from skepticism, justification, and perception to universals, personal identity, and free will. Though topically organized, the book integrates positions and examples from the history of philosophy. Plato, Descartes, and Leibniz are discussed alongside Quine, Kripke, and Haslanger. Peripheral ideas and related historical asides are offered in boxes interspersed within the text, providing further depth without disrupting the author’s lucid explanations of central themes and arguments. Original illustrations by Gillian Wilson are included throughout, giving interesting and clear visual representations of many of the book’s examples and thought experiments.
Author : Sam Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107141995
A cutting-edge and groundbreaking set of new essays by top philosophers on key topics related to the ever-influential knowledge argument.
Author : Kenneth T. Gallagher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015008652003
A Rose Hill book. Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index.