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  • Links Between Beliefs and Cognitive Flexibility

    Lessons Learned

    Edited by Jan Elen, Elmar Stahl, Rainer Bromme, Geraldine Clarebout ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    With the world and its structures becoming ever more complex, and the nature of future employment becoming ever more unpredictable, the notion of ‘cognitive flexibility’ has a high profile in educational and psychological debate. The contributions in this volume analyze the nature of cognitive flexibility, as well as the impact of different types of beliefs on cognitive flexibility.Making adequate ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Island of Knowledge

    The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

    by Marcelo Gleiser ...
    Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what's "out there." In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Evidence Matters

    Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law

    by Susan Haack ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism, and Beyond

    Four Days in India

    by Michael Krausz ...
    Series series New Dialogues in Philosophy
    What is truth, goodness, or beauty? Can we really define these concepts without the idea of a frame of reference? In the newest addition to the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, Michael Krausz presents fictional dialogues between four former classmates who hold significantly different views about these questions. As they travel in India, a place with unfamiliar concepts and customs, these four ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Introducing Empiricism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Dave Robinson ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Our knowledge comes primarily from experience – what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world – and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'.In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, ... Read more

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  • The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering in the World Religions

    Edited by P. Koslowski ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    All religions face the challenge of explaining, in view of God's goodness, the existence of evil and suffering in the world. They must develop theories of the origin and the overcoming of evil and suffering. The explanations in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism of evil and suffering and their origin, as well as these world religions' theories of how to overcome evil and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Critical Introduction to Formal Epistemology

    by Darren Bradley ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Critical Introductions to Contemporary Epistemology
    Formal methods are changing how epistemology is being studied and understood. A Critical Introduction to Formal Epistemology introduces the types of formal theories being used and explains how they are shaping the subject.Beginning with the basics of probability and Bayesianism, it shows how representing degrees of belief using probabilities informs central debates in epistemology. As well as ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Epistemic Reasoning and the Mental

    by M. Gerken ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Epistemic Reasoning and the Mental integrates the epistemology of reasoning and philosophy of mind. By examining the fundamental competencies involved in reasoning, Gerken argues that reasoning depends on the external environment in ways that are both surprising and epistemologically important. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Future of Social Epistemology

    A Collective Vision

    Edited by James H. Collier ...
    Series series Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
    The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision sets an agenda for exploring the future of what we – human beings reimagining our selves and our society – want, need and ought to know. The book examines, concretely, practically and speculatively, key ideas such as the public conduct of philosophy, models for extending and distributing knowledge, the interplay among individuals and groups, ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Mirror of the World: Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness

    by Christopher Peacocke ...
    Series series Context And Content
    Christopher Peacocke presents a philosophical theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation of such a subject of consciousness. He develops a new treatment of subjects, distinct from previous theories, under which subjects were regarded either as constructs from mental events, or fundamentally embodied, or Cartesian egos. In contrast, his ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Science and Relativism

    Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science

    by Larry Laudan ...
    This provocative book presents spirited debates about the philosophy of science from positivist, realist, pragmatist, and relativist perspectives.In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of ... Read more

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  • Franz Brentano’s Analysis of Truth

    by Jan Srzednicki ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Franz Brentano 1 was an important philosopher, but for a long time his importance was under-estimated. At least in the English speaking countries, he came to be remembered best as the initiator of a philoso phical position which he in fact abandoned for good and sufficient 2 reasons. His ultimate and most important contributions passed almost unnoticed. Even such a well-informed and well-prepared ... Read more

    $49.49 USD