Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory of Knowledge

Pieranna Garavaso and Nicla Vassallo investigate Gottlob Frege's notion of thinking (das Denken) to provide a new analysis of a largely unexplored ...

Questions of truth have occupied philosophers, scientists, and theologians throughout human history. What is truth? Does it exist? How do we define...

Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language examines the central arguments in Cassirer’s first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Gregory ...

The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), ...

This book puts forward a much-needed reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the Criti...

In The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom, Brandon Absher argues that the neoliberal transf...

Prejudice influences people’s thoughts and behaviors in many ways; it can lead people to underestimate others’ credibility, to read anger or hyster...

More than 50 years after the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this volume assesses the adequacy ...

This volume considers forms of information manipulation and restriction in contemporary society. It explores whether and when manipulation of the c...

The field of epistemology is undergoing significant changes. Primary among these changes is an ever growing appreciation for the role social influe...

Virtue as Identity offers a study of how virtue is learned and identity acquired through the selection and internalization of values. A large part ...

The field of epistemology is undergoing significant changes. Primary among these changes is an ever growing appreciation for the role social influe...

The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision sets an agenda for exploring the future of what we – human beings reimagining our selves and...

The Pedagogic Mission offers a focused pedagogic exegesis of the philosophies of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates and Plato. Encrypted in their phi...

What factors determine whether a person’s beliefs are epistemically rational? Many traditional accounts contend that those factors lie in the belie...

This book is an investigation of wisdom in its diverse nature and types. Wisdom may be as everyday as folk adages or as arcane as a religious parab...

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...

The Unity of Oneness and Plurality in Plato's Theaetetus offers a reading of the Theaetetus that shows how the characters’ failure to give an accep...

The prime intent of Cognitive Complications is one of innovation. Rescher addresses issues that are under-examined in the present state of discussi...

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...

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A central conclusion developed and defended throughout the book is that epistemic autonomy is necessary for knowledge (both knowledge-that and know...

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God...

In The Story of Reason in Islam, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history—a quest...

Based upon an attentive reading of Nietzsche’s writings and situated within a framework derived largely from such post-Nietzschean thinkers as Dele...

Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology is an intervention in mainstream Western epistemology, especially as it ...