Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory of Knowledge

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amoun...

At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of th...

Trust and trustworthiness are core social phenomena, at the heart of most everyday interactions. Yet they are also puzzling: while it matters to us...

THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO HERMENEUTICS The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics is destined to become an invaluable resource for its incisive discu...

The classical Protagorean idea that the idea of absolute truth is an illusion that there is only 'your truth' and 'my truth', or perhaps 'our trut...

'You may even find that you have the last word in arguments at home and in school, thanks to this introduction to logic and reasoning.' TESSome peo...

Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be...

Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous. Not only are rigorous inferences to the best explanation used pervasively in the sciences, this kind of reason...

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In China, the debate over the moral status of emotions began around the 4th century BCE, when early philosophers first began to invoke psychologica...

The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce...

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious...

Thomas Pink offers a new approach to the problem of free will. Do we have control of how we act, so that we are free to act in more than one way, a...

Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to a...

What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? In Knowing and Seeing, Michael Ayers recovers the insight in the traditional distinction between...

In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the acquisition, retention, and use of other relevan...

Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is one of the landmark works in the history of moral philosophy; this volume presents a section-...