Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory of Knowledge

Hegel’s Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit. Drawing on im...

We can see a theft, hear a lie, and feel a stabbing. These are morally important perceptions. But are they also moral perceptions--distinctively mo...

A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a qua...

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand p...

Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way gives one prima facie justification for believing that they a...

Thoughts and other mental states are defined by their role in a functional system. Since it is easier to determine when we have knowledge than when...

What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? How can it be explained or justified? Being Guil...

The scope of someone's consent is the range of actions that they permit by giving consent. The Scope of Consent investigates the under-explored que...

This book provides a post-positivist theory of deterministic and probabilistic causality that supports both quantitative and qualitative explanatio...

This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to ...

Our reasoning evolved not for finding the truth, but for social bonding and convincing. The best logical methods humans have created provide no pat...

Focusing on the seminal works of two early thirteenth-century philosophers, Steven P. Marrone shows how the idea of science" and the desire to be "...

This book is both a careful study of Immanuel Kant’s work and the context of that work in the movement known as early modern philosophy. The chief ...

The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason ev...

Restorative Free Will argues for an account of free will that takes seriously the evolutionary development of the key elements of free will. It emp...

This is a book on metaethics and moral epistemology. It asks two fundamental questions: (i) Is there any such thing as (non-relative) moral truth?...

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty explores a myriad of new and important ideas regarding our notions of belief, knowledge, skepticism, and certain...

Plato’s formulation of the Principle of Non-contradiction (PNC) in Republic IV is the first full statement of the principle in western philosophy. ...

A Balanced Epistemological Orientation for the Social Sciences challenges social researchers to rethink the epistemological assumptions grounding t...

In Using Knowledge: On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine Ingemar Nordin analyses the philosophical problems and nature of scienc...

In a number of influential articles published since 1972, Dorothy Grover has developed the prosentential theory of truth. Brought together and publ...

Is it good to be proud? We sometimes happily speak of being proud of our achievements, ethnicities and identities, yet pride is also often describe...

Narrative Naturalism: An Alternative Framework for Philosophy of Mind provides an original framework for a non-reductive approach to mind and philo...

In recent years traditional foundations of respect for others have been challenged on the basis that universal grounds — the assumption that we sha...

This book emphasizes that Aristotle was aware of the philosophical attempt to subordinate divine Intellect to a prior and absolute principle. Nyvlt...

Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum in “Frames of War”, edited by Rahat Naqvi and Hans Smits, responds to the challenges Judith Butler posed abo...

A Defense of Ignorance develops new ideas in feminist epistemology by exploring diverse and sometimes positive roles for ignorance. Cynthia Townley...

Virtue ethics occupies the strange position of being one of the oldest and most prominently discussed ethical theories throughout history, and yet ...