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Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy. We continually receive information from a variety of sources: from our senses, from witnesses, from scientific instruments. When considering whether we should believe this information, we assess whether the sources...
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OUP Oxford
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2004-01-08
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The Realm of Reason develops a new, general theory of what it is for a thinker to be entitled to form a given belief.The theory locates entitlement in the nexus of relations between truth, content, and understanding. Peacocke formulates three principles of rationalism...
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Clarendon Press
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2003-11-27
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Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know a certain class of propositions, while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. In its starkest form, the...
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Clarendon Press
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2003-11-20
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Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades, and more recently there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. Ironically, although virtue epistemology got its...
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Clarendon Press
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2003-09-04
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If there exist such things as the things we mean, then those things are also the things we believe, and the things in terms of which we must understand all semantic notions.If such entities as the things we mean and believe exist, an account of their nature must be the...
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Clarendon Press
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2003-09-04
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Jay Rosenberg offers a systematic philosophical theory of knowledge which is specifically responsive to the fact that we always engage the world from a particular perspective within it. It consequently calls into question in a fundamental way many received...
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Clarendon Press
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2002-10-31
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The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology contains 19 previously unpublished chapters by today's leading figures in the field. These chapters function not only as a survey of key areas, but as original scholarship on a range of vital topics. Written accessibly for advanced...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-10-10
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In this short but meaty book, Peter Unger questions the objective answers that have been given to central problems in philosophy. As Unger hypothesizes, many of these problems are unanswerable, including the problems of knowledge and scepticism, the problems of free...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-10-03
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OUP Oxford
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2002-08-22
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Philosophers have traditionally used conceptual analysis to investigate knowledge. Hilary Kornblith argues that this is misguided: it is not the concept of knowledge that we should be investigating, but knowledge itself, a robust natural phenomenon, suitable for...
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Clarendon Press
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2002-08-01
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Knowledge by Agreement defends the ideas that knowledge is a social status (like money, or marriage), and that knowledge is primarily the possession of groups rather than individuals. Part I develops a new theory of testimony. It breaks with the traditional view...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-06-06
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Consciousness is widely regarded as an intractable mystery. Many scientists and philosophers view it as an enigma whose solution waits on some unforeseeable theoretical breakthrough. David Papineau argues that this pessimism is quite misplaced.Consciousness seems...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-04-25
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Our thinking about consciousness and cognition is dominated by a certain very natural conception. This conception dictates what we take the fundamental questions about consciousness and cognition to be as well as the form that their answers must take.
In this book,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-01-10
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How can we know?How can we attain justified belief? These traditional questions in epistemology have inspired philosophers for centuries. Now, in this exceptional work, Alvin Goldman, distinguished scholar and leader in the fields of epistemology and mind, approaches...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-01-03
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Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective is the long-awaited third volume of philosophical writings by Donald Davidson, whose influence on philosophy since the 1960s has been deep and broad. His first two collections, published by OUP in the early 1980s, are recognized as...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
2001-09-27
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Virtue epistemology is an exciting, new movement receiving an enormous amount of attention from top epistemologists and ethicists; this pioneering volume reflects the best work in that vein. Featuring superb writing from contemporary American philosophers, it includes...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-05-31
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The capacity to represent and think about time, and the capacity to recollect the past are two of the most fundamental and least understood aspects of human cognition and consciousness. This book throws new light on central issues in the study of the mind by uniting,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-04-26
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The literature on theoretical reason has been dominated by epistemological concerns, treatments of practical reason by ethical concerns. This book overcomes the limitations of dealing with each separately. It sets out a comprehensive theory of rationality applicable to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-03-22
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Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a fundamental kind of mental stage sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind, and breaks...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
2000-11-03
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