How might epistemology build upon its past and present, so as to be better in the future? Epistemology Futures takes bold steps towards answering that question. What methods will best serve epistemology? Which phenomena and concepts deserve more attention from it? Are there approaches and assumptions that have impeded its progress until now? This volume contains provocative essays by prominent epistemologists, presenting many new ideas for possible improvements in how to do epistemology. Contributors: Paul M. Churchland, Catherine Z. Elgin, Richard Feldman, A. C. Grayling, Stephen...
How might epistemology build upon its past and present, so as to be better in the future? Epistemology Futures takes bold steps towards answering that...
Metaphysics and Epistemology: A Guided Anthology presents a comprehensive introductory overview of key themes, thinkers, and texts in metaphysics and epistemology.
Presents a wide-ranging collection of carefully excerpted readings on metaphysics and epistemology
Blends classic and contemporary works to reveal the historical development and present directions in the fields of metaphysics and epistemology
Provides succinct, insightful commentary to introduce the essence of each selection at the beginning of chapters which also serve to inter-link the...
Metaphysics and Epistemology: A Guided Anthology presents a comprehensive introductory overview of key themes, thinkers, and texts in metaph...
Metaphysics and Epistemology: A Guided Anthology presents a comprehensive introductory overview of key themes, thinkers, and texts in metaphysics and epistemology.
Presents a wide-ranging collection of carefully excerpted readings on metaphysics and epistemology
Blends classic and contemporary works to reveal the historical development and present directions in the fields of metaphysics and epistemology
Provides succinct, insightful commentary to introduce the essence of each selection at the beginning of chapters which also serve to inter-link the...
Metaphysics and Epistemology: A Guided Anthology presents a comprehensive introductory overview of key themes, thinkers, and texts in metaph...
In this book, 12 accomplished contemporary philosophers argue for the greatness of 12 of their predecessors, from antiquity to the 20th century. The book's purpose is not to generate a list of the very best philosophers; instead, the aim is to better identify what might constitute philosophical greatness. Through separate case studies devoted to Plato, Zhuangzi, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, du Chatelet, Hume, Kant (who receives two chapters), Nietzsche, Peirce, Frege, and Wittgenstein, What Makes a Philosopher Great? grapples with some possible aspects of...
In this book, 12 accomplished contemporary philosophers argue for the greatness of 12 of their predecessors, from antiquity to the 20th...
Edmund Gettier's 1963 verdict about what knowledge is not has become an item of philosophical orthodoxy, accepted by philosophers as a genuine epistemological result. It assures us that - contrary to what Plato and later philosophers have thought - knowledge is not merely a true belief well supported by epistemic justification. But that orthodoxy has generated the Gettier problem - epistemology's continuing struggle to understand how to accommodate Gettier's apparent result within an improved conception of knowledge. In this book, Stephen Hetherington argues that none of epistemology's...
Edmund Gettier's 1963 verdict about what knowledge is not has become an item of philosophical orthodoxy, accepted by philosophers as a genuine epistem...
In this book, 12 accomplished contemporary philosophers argue for the greatness of 12 of their predecessors, from antiquity to the 20th century. The book's purpose is not to generate a list of the very best philosophers; instead, the aim is to better identify what might constitute philosophical greatness. Through separate case studies devoted to Plato, Zhuangzi, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, du Chatelet, Hume, Kant (who receives two chapters), Nietzsche, Peirce, Frege, and Wittgenstein, What Makes a Philosopher Great? grapples with some possible aspects of...
In this book, 12 accomplished contemporary philosophers argue for the greatness of 12 of their predecessors, from antiquity to the 20th...