Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Epistemology

A magisterial work in the grand tradition of systematic philosophy not seen in this country perhaps since Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929), this book by a leading German philosopher aims to resurrect systematic philosophy as an essential part of the theoretical enterprise. In Lorenz Puntel's vision, philosophy as the universal science can be holistic without being imperialistic.

The book presents theoretical frameworks as indispensable for any and all theorizing. It argues that there can be truths only relative to sufficiently determinable theoretical...

The nature of propositions and the cognitive value of names have been the focal point of philosophy of language for the last few decades. The advocates of the causal reference theory have favored the view that the semantic contents of proper names　are their referents. However, Frege's puzzle about the different cognitive value of coreferential names has made this identification seem impossible. Geirsson provides a detailed overview of the debate to date, and then develops a novel account that explains our reluctance, even when we know about the relevant identity, to substitute...

The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America.

Based on his intimate knowledge of Husserl's published writings and unpublished manuscripts and on the many conversations and discussions he had with Husserl and Fink during his stay in Freiburg i. Br. in 1931-1932 Cairns's dissertation is a comprehensive exposition of the methodological foundations and the concrete phenomenological analyses of...

Freiheit im Sinne vernunftiger Selbstbestimmung ist Hegel zufolge die zentrale Fahigkeit des Menschen. Sie ist grundlegend fur Rationalitat in ihren praktischen wie theoretischen Auspragungen: Der "logische Raum der Grunde" ist ein "Reich der Freiheit." Thema des Buches ist die umfassende Theorie freier Vernunft, die Hegel aus diesem Gedanken entwickelt.Sein Freiheitsbegriff wird hier als originelle Variante einer Autonomie-Konzeption von Freiheit interpretiert, die Freiheit vom Gedanken willentlicher Wahl entkoppelt und stattdessen als Prozess der Selbstkonstitution rationaler Subjekte...

In this major re-examination of Descartes's founding principle, cogito, ergo sum, Murray Miles presents a portrait of Descartes as the Father of Modern Philosophy that is very different from the standard one.

Viewing Descartes in both a historical and a systematic perspective, Miles presents a wealth of original analyses, arguments, and re-interpretations of key texts. The result is a fresh and illuminating account of Descartes's metaphysical project and theory of the mind. Descartes's achievement is a radical reversal of the order of knowing, a subjectivism that places...

Wittgensteins Grammatikbegriff ist eigentumlich weit gefasst, das heit er beinhaltet nicht nur die Regeln fur die Anordnung von Wortern, sondern letztlich alles, was zur Bedeutung eines Begriffes beitragt. Wittgenstein sieht Grammatik als gleichermaen mit Willkurlichem und mit Nicht-Willkurlichem verwandt an, wobei der Willkur durch die menschliche Natur und soziale Praktiken Grenzen gesetzt sind. Dieses Buch untersucht genau diese Grenzen mit den Mitteln und Ergebnissen der neuesten linguistischen und kognitionswissenschaftlichen Forschung naher, um die zunachst recht spekulativ...

Wolfgang Krause was one of the founders of German-language runology. The study of runes can uncover clues about everyday ancient life as well as about linguistic history - a cultural study at the juncture between linguistics, philology, archaeology, and history.

Over the last two decades, the field of artificial intelligence has experienced

a separation into two schools that hold opposite opinions on how uncertainty should be treated. This separation is the result of a debate that began at the end of the 1960's when AI first faced the problem of building machines required to make decisions and act in the real world. This debate witnessed the contraposition between the mainstream school, which relied on probability for handling uncertainty, and an alternative school, which criticized the adequacy of probability in AI applications and...