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The Mismeasure of the Self is dedicated to vices that blight many lives. They are the vices of superiority, characteristic of those who feel entitled, superior and who have an inflated opinion of themselves, and those of inferiority, typical of those who are riddled...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-03
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Our words and ideas refer to objects and properties in the external world; this phenomenon is central to thought, language, communication, and science. But great works of fiction are full of names that don't seem to refer to anything! In this book Kenneth A. Taylor...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-05-20
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Applied epistemology brings the tools of contemporary epistemology to bear on particular issues of social concern. While the field of social epistemology has flourished in recent years, there has been far less work on how theories of knowledge, justification, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-05-06
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Applied epistemology brings the tools of contemporary epistemology to bear on particular issues of social concern. While the field of social epistemology has flourished in recent years, there has been far less work on how theories of knowledge, justification, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-05-06
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What is knowledge? Why is it valuable? How much of it do we have (if any at all), and what ways of thinking are good ways to use to get more of it? These are just a few questions that are asked in epistemology, roughly, the philosophical theory of knowledge. This is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2021-04-20
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This is Philosophy
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Traditionally, the notion of defeat has been central to epistemology, practical reasoning, and ethics. Within epistemology, it is standardly assumed that a subject who knows that p, or justifiably believes that p, can lose this knowledge or justified belief by acquiring...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-16
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Traditionally, the notion of defeat has been central to epistemology, practical reasoning, and ethics. Within epistemology, it is standardly assumed that a subject who knows that p, or justifiably believes that p, can lose this knowledge or justified belief by acquiring...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-16
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Inquiry, Knowledge, and Understanding takes inquiry as the starting point for epistemological theorising. It uses this idea to develop new and systematic answers to some of the most fundamental questions in epistemology, including about the nature of core epistemic...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-01
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Inquiry, Knowledge, and Understanding takes inquiry as the starting point for epistemological theorising. It uses this idea to develop new and systematic answers to some of the most fundamental questions in epistemology, including about the nature of core epistemic...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-01
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Why did such highly abstract ideas as...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-01
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Why did such highly abstract ideas as...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-01
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Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics inPlato's work: epistemology. Jessica Moss argues thatPlato's epistemology is radically different from our own.
Going against the grain of recent scholarship,...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-11
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Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics inPlato's work: epistemology. Jessica Moss argues thatPlato's epistemology is radically different from our own.
Going against the grain of recent scholarship,...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-11
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Groups are often said to bear responsibility for their actions, many of which have enormous moral, legal, and social significance. When children were separated from their parents or guardians at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of America's immigration policy, for...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-12-01
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Groups are often said to bear responsibility for their actions, many of which have enormous moral, legal, and social significance. When children were separated from their parents or guardians at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of America's immigration policy, for...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-12-01
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What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating chapters which...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-14
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What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating chapters which...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-14
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In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the acquisition, retention, and use of other relevant information.In reality, we have limited cognitive capacities and are subject to motivational biases on an everyday basis....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-11
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In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the acquisition, retention, and use of other relevant information.In reality, we have limited cognitive capacities and are subject to motivational biases on an everyday basis....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-11
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Rationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends. InstrumentalRationality explores the formulation and status of this requirement of means-ends coherence. In particular, it is concerned with understanding what means-ends...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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