Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory of Knowledge

Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and sh...

Hayek thought that all economic behavior (and by implication other human behavior) is based on fallible interpretations of what information is impo...

According to philosophical lore, epistemological orthodoxy is a purist epistemology in which epistemic concepts such as belief, evidence, and knowl...

The Subject of Human Being presents a sweeping account of the nature of human existence. As a work of philosophical anthropology, the analysis rang...

Arguing About Human Nature covers recent debates--arising from biology, philosophy, psychology, and physical anthropology--that together systematic...

David Hume (17111776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert m...

A Pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility and just desert is libertarian fr...

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason. The first part of the book introduces some popular ideas and problems c...

This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kants philosophy. As Kant writes in his major works of the critical period, it is due to the s...

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wildes public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Thro...

Kant on Intuition: Western and Asian Perspectives on Transcendental Idealism consists of 20 chapters, many of which feature engagements between Kan...

How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of politic...

This title was first published in 2002.This book challenges prevalent assumptions regarding questions and enquiry. It argues that instead of trying...

This title was first published in 2003. This work examines how Christian faith has historically impacted the notion of Nous or divine mind in Weste...

This book sheds light on important philosophical assumptions made by professionals working in clinical and research medicine. In doing so, it aims ...

Our knowledge of the world comes from various sources. But it is sometimes said that testimony, unlike other sources, transmits knowledge from one ...

Published in 2001, Ethics and Reality presents a new collection of Jenny Teichman's most important essays across a wide spectrum of ethical issues....

This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectiv...

The history of scepticism is assumed by many to be the history of failed responses to a problem first raised by Descartes. While the thought of the...

This work is a contribution to certain aspects of idealistic philosophy. It is a comparative study, yet it is not a comparison for the sake of comp...

First published in 1997, this volume expands the analytical philosophical tradition in the face of parochial Anglo-American philosophical interests...

Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosoph...

Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosoph...