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Representation in Mind : New Approaches to Mental Representation
ISBN: 9780080443942 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. 'Representation in Mind' is the first book in the new series 'Perspectives on Cognitive Science' and includes well known contributors in the areas of philosophy of mind, psychology and cognitive science. The papers in this volume offer new ideas, fresh approaches and new criticisms of old ideas. The papers deal in new ways with fundamental questions concerning the problem of mental representation that one contributor, Robert Cummins, has described as "THE problem in philosophy of mind for some time now." The editors' introductory overview considers the problem for which mental...
'Representation in Mind' is the first book in the new series 'Perspectives on Cognitive Science' and includes well known contributors in the areas of ...
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424,79 zł |
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Behind the Mirror
ISBN: 9780156117760 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Nobel laureate Lorenz here investigates culture as a living system. From amoebas to humans, he traces the physiological mechanisms that direct behavior and thought. Translated by Ronald Taylor; Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
Nobel laureate Lorenz here investigates culture as a living system. From amoebas to humans, he traces the physiological mechanisms that direct behavio...
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84,86 zł |
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The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism
ISBN: 9780156584463 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Language is the most important of all the instruments of civilization." The authors state this premise boldly in their preface to "The Meaning of Meaning," a classic work whose significance--and challenge--to the study of language, literature, and philosophy has remained undiminished since its original publication.
Much about language continues to be only hazily understood, distorted by our habitual attitude--often one of indifference--toward words, or by lingering assumptions based on discredited theories. What IS the relationship between words and what the words refer to? Between words... "Language is the most important of all the instruments of civilization." The authors state this premise boldly in their preface to "The Meaning of Mea...
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80,86 zł |
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The Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780195049992 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A collection of twelve essays by John Perry and two essays he co-authored, this book deals with various problems related to "self-locating beliefs": the sorts of beliefs one expresses with indexicals and demonstratives, like "I" and "this." Postscripts have been added to a number of the essays discussing criticisms by authors such as Gareth Evans and Robert Stalnaker. Included with such well-known essays as "Frege on Demonstratives," "The Problem of the Essential Indexical," "From Worlds to Situations," and "The Prince and the Phone Booth" are a number of important essays that have been less...
A collection of twelve essays by John Perry and two essays he co-authored, this book deals with various problems related to "self-locating beliefs": t...
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903,46 zł |
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The View from Nowhere
ISBN: 9780195056440 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular." At the same time, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world, a view that we can recognize as just one aspect of the whole. How do we reconcile these two standpoints--intellectually, morally, and practically? To what extent are they irreconcilable and to what extent can they be...
Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or i...
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208,70 zł |
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Working Without a Net : A Study of Egocentric Epistemology
ISBN: 9780195076998 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this new book, Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers. He argues that having rational opinions is a matter of meeting our own internal standards rather than standards that are somehow imposed upon us from the outside. It is a matter of making ourselves invulnerable to intellectual self-criticism. Foley also shows how the theory of rational belief is part of a general theory of rationality. He thus avoids treating the rationality of belief as a fundamentally different kind of phenomenon from the rationality of decision or action. His...
In this new book, Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers. He argues that having rational opinions ...
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875,46 zł |
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Warrant: The Current Debate
ISBN: 9780195078626 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book and its companion volume, Warrant and Proper Function. Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it is that when added to true belief yields knowledge. This present volume surveys current contributions to the debate and paves the way for his own positive proposal in Warrant and Proper Function. This first volume serves as a good introduction to the central issues in contemporary epistemology.
Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book ...
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427,40 zł |
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Warrant and Proper Function
ISBN: 9780195078633 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the right kind of cognitive environment. Although this book is in some sense a sequel to its companion volume, the arguments do not presuppose those of the first book and it stands alone as a stimulating contribution to epistemology.
In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; ...
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931,47 zł |
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Warrant and Proper Function
ISBN: 9780195078640 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the right kind of cognitive environment. Although this book is in some sense a sequel to its companion volume, the arguments do not presuppose those of the first book and it stands alone as a stimulating contribution to epistemology.
In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; ...
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287,10 zł |
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Correspondence and Disquotation : An Essay on the Nature of Truth
ISBN: 9780195079241 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Marian David defends the correspondence theory of truth against the disquotational theory of truth, its current major rival. The correspondence theory asserts that truth is a philosophically rich and profound notion in need of serious explanation. Disquotationalists offer a radically deflationary account inspired by Tarski and propagated by Quine and others. They reject the correspondence theory, insist truth is anemic, and advance an "anti-theory" of truth that is essentially a collection of platitudes: "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white; "Grass is green" is true if and...
Marian David defends the correspondence theory of truth against the disquotational theory of truth, its current major rival. The correspondence theory...
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651,43 zł |
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Philosophy after Objectivity : Making Sense in Perspective
ISBN: 9780195081091 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since the beginning of philosophy, philosophers have sought objective knowledge: knowledge of things whose existence does not depend on one's conceiving of them. This book uses lessons from debates over objective knowledge to characterize the kinds of reasons pertinent to philosophical and other theoretical views. It argues that we cannot meet skeptics' typical demands for nonquestion-begging support for claims to objective truth, and that therefore we should not regard our supporting reasons as resistant to skeptical challenges. One key lesson is that a constructive, explanatory approach to...
Since the beginning of philosophy, philosophers have sought objective knowledge: knowledge of things whose existence does not depend on one's conceivi...
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847,46 zł |
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The Liar Speaks the Truth : A Defense of the Revision Theory of Truth
ISBN: 9780195083439 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book, Yaq?b describes a simple conception of truth and shows that it yields a semantical theory that accommodates the whole range of our seemingly conflicting intuitions about truth. This conception takes the Tarskian biconditionals (such as "The sentence 'Johannes loved Clara' is true if and only if Johannes loved Clara") as correctly and completely defining the notion of truth. The semantical theory, which is called the revision theory, that emerges from this conception paints a metaphysical picture of truth as a property whose applicability is given by a revision process rather...
In this book, Yaq?b describes a simple conception of truth and shows that it yields a semantical theory that accommodates the whole range of our seemi...
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707,44 zł |
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Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty
ISBN: 9780195084887 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of skepticism. However, their defenses and...
Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest e...
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847,46 zł |
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Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
ISBN: 9780195089875 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is an examination of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification. It takes ideas primarily found in Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, restates them in a modern idiom, and then asks whether any contemporary theory of knowledge meets the challenges they raise. The first part, entitled "Gettier and the Problem of Knowledge," attempts to rescue our ordinary concept of knowledge from those philosophers who have assigned burdens to it that it cannot bear. Properly understood, Fogelin shows that the concept of knowledge...
This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is an examination of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification. It takes ideas primar...
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959,47 zł |
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The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction
ISBN: 9780195094664 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Written in an engaging and accessible style, The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction explains the main ideas and problems of contem porary epistemology, the philosophical study of knowledge. Comprehensi ve and rich in illustrations and examples, it deals with major topics while avoiding technical detail. It introduces traditional topics in e pistemology within the context of contemporary debates about the defin ition, sources, and limits of human knowledge. It also relates epistem ology to work in cognitive science and defends a plausible version of explanationism regarding...
Written in an engaging and accessible style, The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction explains the main ideas and problems of contem porary ep...
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303,91 zł |
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Problems of Vision : Rethinking the Causal Theory of Perception
ISBN: 9780195104981 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book Gerald Vision argues for a new causal theory, one that engages provocatively with direct realism and makes no use of a now discredited subjectivism.
In this book Gerald Vision argues for a new causal theory, one that engages provocatively with direct realism and makes no use of a now discredited su...
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791,45 zł |
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Causation and Persistence : A Theory of Causation
ISBN: 9780195107944 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties, or "tropes."
Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causat...
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819,45 zł |
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Understanding Truth
ISBN: 9780195111514 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. Part I addresses crucial background issues, including the identification of the bearers of truth, the basis for distinguishing truth from other notions (like certainty, with which it is often confused), and the formulation of positive responses to well-known forms of philosophical skepticism about truth. Part II explicates the formal theories of Alfred Tarski and Saul Kripke, including their treatments of the Liar paradox,...
In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, an...
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707,44 zł |
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A Priori Justification
ISBN: 9780195115055 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The major divide in contemporary epistemology is between those who embrace and those who reject a priori knowledge. Albert Casullo provides a systematic treatment of the primary epistemological issues associated with the controversy. By freeing the a priori from traditional assumptions about the nature of knowledge and justification, he offers a novel approach to resolving these issues which assigns a prominent role to empirical evidence. He concludes by arguing that traditional approaches to the a priori, which focus primarily on the concepts of necessity and analyticity, are misguided.
The major divide in contemporary epistemology is between those who embrace and those who reject a priori knowledge. Albert Casullo provides a systemat...
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819,45 zł |
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Skepticism About the External World
ISBN: 9780195117196 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Do we know or even have evidence that external material objects exist? Drawing powerfully on techniques from both analytic and continental philosophy, Butchvarov offers a strikingly original approach to this perennial issue. He argues that only a direct realist view of perception--the view that in perception we are directly aware of material objects--has any hope of providing a compelling response to the skeptic. The seemingly insuperable problem for direct realism has always been to explain hallucination, dreaming, and other situations where the object of awareness is not a really...
Do we know or even have evidence that external material objects exist? Drawing powerfully on techniques from both analytic and continental philosophy,...
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819,45 zł |