Epistemology: An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge.

These essays show how the epistemology’s of Descartes, Hume, Kant etc led them into certain philosophical directions and philosophies. This is not to say that the thought process worked backwards in these philosophers. In other words the philosophy was first arrived at then the epistemology created to justify the philosophy. These essay only show.

Explaining Understanding: New Essays in Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science ed. Stephen Grimm, Christoph Baumberger, and Sabine Ammon. New York: Routledge, 2016, pp. 76-91. Exemplification in Understanding1 Catherine Z. Elgin Examples are ubiquitous. Philosophers adduce examples to support their theories.

This volume puts together twelve new essays by scholars who have done groundbreaking work in epistemology over the past four decades. Unfortunately, the editor’s brief introduction offers only a sketchy presentation of the papers and their background.

The Epistemology of Disagreement brings together essays from a dozen philosophers on the epistemic significance of disagreement; all but one of the essays are new. Questions discussed include: When (if ever) does the disagreement of others require a rational agent to revise her beliefs?

Sophophilia is a collection of philosophical essays representing a wide range of philosophical climates, traditions, tendencies and commitments intended to prepare and introduce new enthusiasts to the academic field of Philosophy. The author has determined that an exploration of basic issues.

Epistemology, then, is the branch of philosophy that deals with questions concerning the nature, scope, and sources of knowledge. In what follows, I’ll briefly describe a few of the issues epistemologists deal with. That should give you a bit better idea of what epistemology is, and.

Essay portfolios and dissertations submitted for the Associate and Fellowship Awards of the International Society for Philosophers PHILOSOPHY ESSAY ARCHIVE During the the time that the ground-breaking Pathways to Philosophy distance learning program has been running, students from around the world have produced many fine examples of philosophical writing.

Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays.

Social epistemology is the philosophical study of the relevance of communities to knowledge. Social epistemology can be done descriptively or normatively. It is part of the descriptive project, for instance, to clarify whether a social isolate (like Robinson Crusoe) could have knowledge.

The Epistemology of Disagreement brings together essays from a dozen philosophers on the epistemic significance of disagreement; all but one of the essays are new. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website.

We often talk about groups believing, knowing, and testifying. For instance, we ask whether the Bush Administration had good reasons for believing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, or whether BP knew that its equipment was faulty before the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Epistemic claims of this sort often have enormously significant consequences, given the ways they bear.

Taking up such issues as the role of contextualism in epistemology, democracy and dissent in knowledge practices, and epistemic agency under conditions of oppression, the essays build upon well-established work in feminist epistemology and philosophy of science such as standpoint theory and contextual empiricism, offering new interpretations.