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  • A Worldview of Everything
    Brian Cronin
    Philosophy has sometimes been described as the discipline in which you can never be wrong, as the reserve of absentminded professors, aloof academics and purveyors of obscure ideas or interesting opinions. Quite the contrary. Philosophy answers the hard questions: Does everything happen by chance? Is there anything more than matter in the universe? Are humans in the same class ...
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    39,43 €

  • A Worldview of Everything
    Brian Cronin
    Philosophy has sometimes been described as the discipline in which you can never be wrong, as the reserve of absentminded professors, aloof academics and purveyors of obscure ideas or interesting opinions. Quite the contrary. Philosophy answers the hard questions: Does everything happen by chance? Is there anything more than matter in the universe? Are humans in the same class ...
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    55,60 €

  • Guide to Personal Knowledge
    Dániel Paksi / Mihály Héder
    This book will help readers understand the most important book of Michael Polanyi, ’Personal Knowledge’, and help them grasp the essence of his philosophical thinking. In this volume, Polanyi’s goals are first reconstructed, and then his main philosophical arguments are introduced. The discussion is limited to the most crucial ideas that are indispensable for the arc of his boo...
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    60,42 €

  • Epistemology of the Human Sciences
    Walter B. Weimer
    This book argues for evolutionary epistemology and distinguishing functionality from physicality in the social sciences. It explores the implications for this approach to understanding in biology, economics, psychology and political science. Presenting a comprehensive overview of philosophical topics in the social sciences, the book emphasizes how all human cognition and behavi...
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    156,15 €

  • Epistemology of the Human Sciences
    Walter B. Weimer
    This book argues for evolutionary epistemology and distinguishing functionality from physicality in the social sciences. It explores the implications for this approach to understanding in biology, economics, psychology and political science. Presenting a comprehensive overview of philosophical topics in the social sciences, the book emphasizes how all human cognition and behavi...
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    47,44 €

  • The Meaning of Something
    Fosca Mariani Zini
    This innovative volume investigates the meaning of ’something’ in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy. In fact, the revival of interest in 'something' in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as in contemporary phi...
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    48,12 €

  • The Meaning of Something
    Fosca Mariani Zini
    This innovative volume investigates the meaning of ’something’ in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy. In fact, the revival of interest in 'something' in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as in contemporary phi...
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    145,15 €

  • Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination
    This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. ...
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    213,58 €

  • Lies Trickery Obfuscation
    John Brown
    A retrospective point of view seems quite capable of accurately identifying fallacious socially constructed realities as well as widely shared cultural perspectives based on falsehoods. Thus, the enhanced analytical ability afforded by a 21st century standpoint often evokes a sense of bewilderment and sometimes horror. For example, an objective study of the 20th century easily ...
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    15,84 €

  • God Naturalized
    Halvor Kvandal
    This volume argues that theistic philosophy should be seen not as an 'armchair' enterprise but rather as a critical endeavor to bring philosophy of religion into close contact with emerging sciences of religion. This text engages with the rationality of religious belief by investigating central problems and arguments in philosophy of religion from the perspective of new natural...
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    134,28 €

  • Hume on Testimony
    Dan O’Brien
    This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. O’Brien looks wider than the miracles essay, turning to what Hume says about testimony in the Treatise, the moral Enquiry, the History of England and his Essays. ...
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    214,22 €

  • Democratización del conocimiento más allá y más acá del contexto de la Patagonia Sur y la pandemia
    Barile Cristina / Castillo Aguilar Matías Alonso / Constantino Enzo / Faierman Florencia / Golluscio Julieta / Kulemeyer Jorge Alberto / Leno María José / Loncón Saldivia Rubén Alejandro / Mc-Ardle Draguicevic Nelson Fabian / Méndez María José / Páez Luis Ricardo / Sargiotto Viviana Beatriz / Sarmiento Yohana Belén / Schargo
    El presente libro plasma los diversos aportes realizados, en contexto de pandemia, por profesionales con trayectoria en I+D abocados al estudios sobre la democratización del conocimiento (DC) pertenecientes a diversas universidades miembros de la Red de Imágenes y Saberes del Sur (RISS). Teniendo esta última el propósito de describir y analizar las condiciones en las que se pro...
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    11,44 €

  • Knowers and Knowledge in East-West Philosophy
    Karyn L. Lai
    This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge. The contributors extend contemporary Western epistemology in novel directions, through investigating and questioning entrenched conceptions of knowledge. The cross-tradition engagement with the neurosciences, psychology, and anthropologica...
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    158,06 €

  • The Bounds of Transcendental Logic
    Dennis Schulting
    The book addresses two main areas of Kant’s theoretical philosophy: the doctrine of transcendental idealism and various central aspects of the arguments from the Metaphysical and Transcendental Deductions, as well as the relation between the deduction argument and idealism.Among the topics covered are the nature of objective validity, the role and function of transcendental log...
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    97,38 €

  • Myth and Authority
    Alexander U. Bertland
    Argues that Giambattista Vico’s early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.Living in a province dominated by powerful oligarchs, Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) concluded that political philosophy should work to undermine aristocratic authority and prevent...
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    121,38 €

  • Opining Beauty Itself
    Naomi Reshotko
    Argues that Plato thinks that ordinary people grapple with the Forms and can make epistemological progress, even if they never achieve knowledge.In Opining Beauty Itself, Naomi Reshotko examines Plato’s discussions of epistemological states that fall short of knowledge. Wary that interpretations of Plato’s epistemology often omit a detailed analysis of the way he deploys the ep...
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    121,73 €

  • Plato’s Stranger
    Rodolphe Gasché
    Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato’s late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner-the other-represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.The dramatic introduction in two of Plato’s late dialogues-the Sophist and the Statesman, both part of a...
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    121,90 €

  • The View from Within
    Menachem Fisch / Yitzhak Benbaji
    This book is a thorough evaluation of the arguments made by contemporary philosophers about the normative character of reason and the derivative problem of relativism. ...
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    216,05 €

  • White Elephants on Campus
    Margaret Grubiak
    Examines churches and chapels built on campuses during the twentieth century to reveal declining role of religion within the mission of the modern American university. ...
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    143,85 €

  • New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure
    This volume features new perspectives on the topic of epistemic closure. It connects epistemic closure principles to related themes in epistemology such as scepticism, dogmatism, evidentialism, epistemic logic, and modal epistemology. ...
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    241,21 €

  • A Protocol-theoretic Framework for the Logic of Epistemic Norms
    Ralph Jenkins
    This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to the aims of such a framework. In order to motivate the project, the author defends an account of epistemic no...
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    46,61 €

  • A Protocol-theoretic Framework for the Logic of Epistemic Norms
    Ralph Jenkins
    This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to the aims of such a framework. In order to motivate the project, the author defends an account of epistemic no...
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    131,33 €

  • Taking Off Roofs and Building Bridges
    Alan J. Pihringer
    Why don’t they believe the same things I do? Why don’t they see things my way? We get frustrated when people hold differing opinions from ours or view life’s major issues from conflicting angles. Their system of belief (their worldview) seems foreign to us as they filter the events of this world in ways that we would never have imagined and then come to conclusions that we woul...
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    21,10 €

  • Taking Off Roofs and Building Bridges
    Alan J. Pihringer
    Why don’t they believe the same things I do? Why don’t they see things my way? We get frustrated when people hold differing opinions from ours or view life’s major issues from conflicting angles. Their system of belief (their worldview) seems foreign to us as they filter the events of this world in ways that we would never have imagined and then come to conclusions that we woul...
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    32,90 €

  • Ernest Nagel
    This volume is dedicated to the life and work of Ernest Nagel (1901-1985) counted among the influential twentieth-century philosophers of science. Forgotten by the history of philosophy of science community in recent years, this volume introduces Nagel’s philosophy to a new generation of readers and highlights the merits and originality of his works.Best known in the history of...
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    195,10 €

  • Narrative as Dialectic Abduction
    Donna E. West
    This book presents a fresh approach to the communicability of narratives, revealing the cognitive underpinnings of Charles Sanders Peirce’s pragmatistic model. It demonstrates how abductive processes modify habits of belief and action in what Peirce refers to as double consciousness.  Abductions generated during double consciousness paradigms have increased efficacy compared to...
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    134,64 €

  • Narrative as Dialectic Abduction
    Donna E. West
    This book presents a fresh approach to the communicability of narratives, revealing the cognitive underpinnings of Charles Sanders Peirce’s pragmatistic model. It demonstrates how abductive processes modify habits of belief and action in what Peirce refers to as double consciousness.  Abductions generated during double consciousness paradigms have increased efficacy compared to...
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    48,25 €

  • Measuring Professional Knowledge
    Felix Rauner / Martin Ahrens
    In this book, we show the replacement of academic and vocational education, which is structured according to subject systems and oriented towards scientific knowledge, by vocational action knowledge. This work process knowledge is the basis for the acquisition of the design competence of vocational specialists, which is becoming increasingly important in the world of work.A mod...
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    47,83 €

  • On Madness
    Richard G. T Gipps
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    128,06 €

  • Knowledge Production and the Search for Epistemic Liberation in Africa
    Dennis Masaka
    This book shows the importance of knowledge production using requisite terms and frameworks to the broader scheme of epistemic liberation in Africa. The text considers what this veritable direction to knowledge production would mean to other areas of concern in African philosophy such as morality, education and the environment.  These contributions are important because the suc...
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    134,75 €