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“tim black”

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  • The Sensitivity Principle in Epistemology

    Edited by Kelly Becker, Tim Black ...
    The sensitivity principle is a compelling idea in epistemology and is typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge. This collection of thirteen new essays constitutes a state-of-the-art discussion of this important principle. Some of the essays build on and strengthen sensitivity-based accounts of knowledge and offer novel defences of those accounts. Others present original ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Buddhist Psychology

    The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3

    by Geshe Tashi Tsering ...
    Series series The Foundation of Buddhist Thought
    This new volume from the Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, provides a stand-alone and systematic - but accessible - entry into how Buddhism understands the mind. Geshe Tashi, an English-speaking Tibetan monk who lives in London, was trained from boyhood in a traditional Tibetan monastery and is adept in communicating this classical training to a modern Western audience.Buddhist Psychology ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Social Epistemology

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Alvin Goldman, Dennis Whitcomb ...
    What if anything justifies us in believing the testimony of others? How should we react to disagreement between ourselves and our peers, and to disagreement among the experts when we ourselves are novices? Can beliefs be held by groups of people in addition to the people composing those groups? And if so, how should groups go about forming their beliefs? How should we design social systems, such ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Stoic Six Pack 7 (Illustrated)

    Memoirs of Socrates, Euthydemus, Stoic Self-control, Gorgias, Protagoras and Biographies

    by Various Artists ...
    “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”- Socrates.Two centuries before the Stoics lived The Sophists, star philosophers who roamed Athens during the fifth century B.C. commanding large fees for speaking and private lessons. They offered practical education, speculation on the nature of the universe and knowledge in the art of life and politics. The most famous were Protagoras, ... Read more

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  • The Laboratory of the Mind

    Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrödinger's cat – these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? Are they really experiments at all? Can they help us gain a greater understanding of the natural world? How is it possible that we can learn new things just by thinking?In this revised and updated new ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Quest for Reality: Bohr and Wittgenstein - two complementary views

    by Stig Stenholm ...
    In both science and philosophy, the twentieth century saw a radical breakdown of certainty in the human worldview, as quantum uncertainty and linguistic ambiguity destroyed the comfortable certitudes of the past. As these disciplines form the foundation for a human position in the world, a major epistemological reorganization had to take place. In this book, quantum theorist Stig Stenholm presents ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus

    Edited by Irving M. Copi, Robert W. Beard ...
    This is Volume I of eight of a series on Wittgenstein. Originally published in 1966, this is a collection of essays that review and comment on the form, language, Picture Theory in Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Beyond Reason

    Knowledge, Religion and Science in The West

    by David Hopson ...
    Where did God come from? Where did He go? What did science inherit from religion? Why does any of this matter? Beyond Reason is a plea for tolerance and understanding in the guise of a 3,000 year intellectual history of religion and science, from the Greeks to the geeks. Conceived for 'A' level students and undergraduates, the book is finding a much wider audience in publication. Critics and ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Falun Gong and the Future of China

    by David Ownby ...
    On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin. Stunned and surprised, China's leaders launched a campaign of brutal suppression against the group which continues to this day. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Logic of Truth

    St. Thomas Aquinas's Epistemology and Antonio Livi's Alethic Logic

    by William J. Slattery, Ph.D., S.T.L. ...
    Series series Epistemology: A Series of Critical Essays on Contemporary Philosophy
    The “Dictatorship of Relativism”, the dominant culture of the post-modern world with its ideological roots in the Cartesian, Protestant, and French revolutions, is ultimately a revolt against Truth. It argues that man is incapable of knowing reality as reality but merely as physical-mathematical appearance; that unrestrained individualism, checked only by social consensus, is the essence of ... Read more

    $9.98 USD

  • Logic and Metaphysics

    by J.L. Shaw, D.L. Oxtoby ...
    Series series The Works of J.L. Shaw
    This volume of the collected works of J.L. Shaw contains twelve papers that fall in the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Professor Shaw's methodology in these papers is that of comparative philosophy. With an emphasis on classical Indian analytical philosophy and late 19th and 20th century Western analytical philosophy, Professor Shaw compares such traditions as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Free Will

    A Philosophical Reappraisal

    by Nicholas Rescher ...
    This volume is a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans have free will, Rescher first examines what exactly free will is and how it should function. While the literature on the subject of free will is vast, a good deal still remains to be done to avert obscurity and confusion. Rescher leads the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD