Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory of Knowledge

Fühlen, Wollen und Handeln werden im Allgemeinen als Zustände oder Aktivitäten verstanden, die einen individuellen Träger haben. Die Analyse dieser...

Insbesondere die Tragfähigkeit des transzendentalen Idealismus für Kants Metaphysik der Natur sowie die Schlüssigkeit seiner Moralphilosophie stehe...

This book employs a philosophical approach to the new wounded (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contempor...

Philosophical thinking about truth has revolved around two key questions. First, what is the nature of truth? Second, why should we value it? It ha...

Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a...

Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a...

How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

Causation is one of the most controversial topics in philosophy. There is a wide range of philosophical accounts of causation, for example, the reg...

What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent o...

This clearly written and provocative text outlines the wide range of epistemological and metaphysical pillars of research. In a clear, easy to f...

Leading scholars from various disciplines analyze the relevance of evolutionary theory for future developments, whereby the fields of anthropology,...

This book is a passionate engagement with Gilles Deleuze and collaborative writing, in which four writers explore together the insights that Deleuz...

The Arts-Based Research Primer explores the arts-based research paradigm and its potential to intersect with and augment traditional social science...

We conceived of this book with the idea that critical explorations into the key philosophical issues in qualitative research could throw light on d...

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. This volume of transformed research utilizes ...

This full-scaled monograph, rich in factographic material, concerns Nryaa Guru (1855/56--1928), a founder of a powerful socio-religious movement in...

Is it good to be trusting, or should we be wary of trusting others? Trust seems to be the basis of large-scale social cooperation and even of democ...