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  • Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge

    by Jessica Brown ...
    What strength of evidence is required for knowledge? Ordinarily, we often claim to know something on the basis of evidence which doesn't guarantee its truth. For instance, one might claim to know that one sees a crow on the basis of visual experience even though having that experience does not guarantee that there is a crow (it might be a rook, or one might be dreaming). As a result, those wanting ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • African Ethics and Death

    Moral Status and Human Dignity in Ubuntu Thinking

    Series series Routledge Studies in African Philosophy
    This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.The book first challenges the criticism and rejection of moral status in African philosophy and then continues to consider how moral personhood is defined in African ethical theories, investigating which entities have full moral status or moral ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Using Words and Things

    Language and Philosophy of Technology

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology—that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere things, but crucially and significantly shape what we perceive, do, and are—is re-thought in a way ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Immanent Materialisms

    Speculation and critique

    Edited by Charlie Blake, Patrice Haynes ...
    Series series Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
    Must a philosophy of life be materialist, and if so, must it also be a philosophy of immanence? In the last twenty years or so there has been a growing trend in continental thought and philosophy and critical theory that has seen a return to the category of immanence. Through consideration of the work of thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Catherine Malabou, Francois Laruelle, Gilles Deleuze and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Literacy Scholarship

    Approaches to Synthesizing Literacy Research

    This book is a roadmap to the key decisions, processes, and procedures to use when synthesizing qualitative literacy research. Covering the major types of syntheses – including the dissertation literature review, traditional literature review, integrative literature review, meta-synthesis, and meta-ethnography – Compton-Lilly, Rogers, and Lewis Ellison offer techniques and frameworks to use when ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Relativism

    Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate. In this book, Maria Baghramian and Annalisa Coliva present the recent arguments for and against various forms of relativism.The first two chapters introduce the conceptual and historical contours of relativism. These are followed by critical investigations of relativism about truth, conceptual relativism, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism

    Series series Elements in Metaphysics
    Minimally, metaphysical realists hold that there exist some mind-independent entities. Metaphysical realists also (tend to) hold that we can speak meaningfully or truthfully about mind-independent entities. Those who reject metaphysical realism deny one or more of these commitments. This Element aims to introduce the reader to the core commitments of metaphysical realism and to illustrate how ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Manifest Reality

    Kant's Idealism and his Realism

    by Lucy Allais ...
    At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position. Despite the centrality of transcendental idealism in Kant's thinking, in over two hundred years since the publication of the first Critique there is still no agreement on how to interpret the position, or even on ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Moral Knowledge

    by Sarah McGrath ...
    Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds, in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in fundamental moral convictions? And what are the associated problems of using testimony as a source of moral knowledge? Sarah McGrath provides novel ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Chance in the World

    A Humean Guide to Objective Chance

    by Carl Hoefer ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
    Probability has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians for hundreds of years. Although the mathematics of probability is, for most applications, clear and uncontroversial, the interpretation of probability statements continues to be fraught with controversy and confusion. What does it mean to say that the probability of some event X occurring is 31%? In the 20th century a ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Kant’s Critiques

    The Critique of Pure Reason; The Critique of Practical Reason; The Critique of Judgement

    by Immanuel Kant ...
    Collected in this 3-in-one omnibus edition are Kant's ground breaking critiques. The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason, and The Critique of Judgement. The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential philosophy books of all times. Kant's influence on modern perception of reason cannot be over estimated. Here Kant redefines reason and gives us the tools to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A General View of Positivism

    by Auguste Comte ...
    Translated by J. H. Bridges ...
    Although Positivism has been pretty widely discussed of late, not only by those interested in philosophy and religion, but by the general reader and the public press, perhaps but few of them, whether readers or critics, have exactly grasped the full meaning of it as a system at once of thought and of life. The vast range of the ground it covers and the technical, allusive, and close style of Comte ... Read more

    $1.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sam Harris Delusion

    The Truth Series, #4

    by Mike Hockney ...
    Series Book 4 - The Truth Series
    There are two kinds of intellectual: Philosophers and Sophists. The former seek the absolute truth while the latter seek the "practical" truth that brings them worldly prestige and success. The weak-minded are far more influenced by Sophists than Philosophers, to the severe detriment of the intellectual progress of humanity. Philosophers have a position based on rationalism, idealism, metaphysics ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophy for AS and A Level

    Epistemology and Moral Philosophy

    Philosophy for AS and A Level is an accessible textbook for the new 2017 AQA Philosophy syllabus. Structured closely around the AQA specification this textbook covers the two units shared by the AS and A Level, Epistemology and Moral Philosophy, in an engaging and student-friendly way. With chapters on 'How to do philosophy', exam preparation providing students with the philosophical skills they ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Animals, Political Liberalism and Public Reason

    This book explores the problem of disagreement concerning the treatment of animals in a liberal society. Current laws include an unprecedented concern for animal welfare, yet disagreement remains pervasive. This issue has so far been neglected both in political philosophy and animal ethics. Although starting from disagreement has been the hallmark of many politically liberal theories, none have ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly

    The Legacies of Lorraine Code

    Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly brings together a transdisciplinary cohort of feminist, critical race, Indigenous, and decolonial scholars who build upon and seek to widen and deepen the legacy and potential of feminist philosopher Lorraine Code's work. Since the publication of her 1987 book Epistemic Responsibility, Code has been at the forefront of linking epistemologies, ontologies, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Plato's Stranger

    An Essay

    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    The dramatic introduction in two of Plato's late dialogues—the Sophist and the Statesman, both part of a trilogy that also includes the Theaetetus—of a stranger, the Eleatic Stranger, who replaces Socrates, is a consequential move, especially since it occurs in the context of decidedly new insights into the philosophical logos and life together in a community. The introduction of a radical ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Figurations of Human Subjectivity

    A Contribution to Second-Order Psychology

    This book takes an empirically grounded perspective on research in values, intimacy and sexuality, among other topics in psychology, to highlight the importance of searching for human subjectivity in its diversity, plurality and self-generativity. The author conducts an in-depth discussion on the methodological and epistemological issues enabling the study of subjectivity, and argues that in order ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Logos: Logical Religion Unleashed

    The Revolution of the Mind, #6

    by Steve Madison ...
    Series Book 6 - The Revolution of the Mind
    Wouldn't you want a religion that every logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist on earth could embrace, a religion fully consistent with all the points made by Kurt Gödel when he listed the 14 key religious principles he accepted? That religion already exists. It's called ontological mathematics, predicated on the principle of sufficient reason and Occam's razor, and constitutes an a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Formal Approach to the Metaphysics of Perspectives

    Points of View as Access

    Series Book 392 - Synthese Library
    This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that explains that points of view are real structures that ground properties and objects as well as perspectives. The notion of point ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Ignorant Cognition

    A Philosophical Investigation of the Cognitive Features of Not-Knowing

    by Selene Arfini ...
    Series Book 46 - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
    This book offers a comprehensive philosophical investigation of ignorance. Using a set of cognitive tools and models, it discusses features that can describe a state of ignorance if linked to a particular type of cognition affecting the agent’s social behavior, belief system, and inferential capacity. The author defines ignorance as a cognitive condition that can be either passively (and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Social Virtue Epistemology

    This collection of 19 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time and written by an international team of established and emerging scholars, explores the place of intellectual virtues and vices in a social world. Relevant virtues include open-mindedness, curiosity, intellectual courage, diligence in inquiry, and the like. Relevant vices include dogmatism, need for immediate certainty, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Flight 9525

    Flight 9525 was written as a kind of reflection and response to the crash of a German airliner that was hijacked by a suicidal copilot who then flew the plane into a mountainside. All 150 people on board were killed.Don't we owe it, in memoriam, to look at this execution of 149 people with wide-open eyes and not sweep it under the rug? Shouldn't we try to discover a deeper meaning for these ... Read more

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  • Platão: Análise literária

    Compêndios da filosofia, #2

    Series Book 2 - Compêndios da filosofia
    Em "Platão: Análise literária", o renomado filósofo e estudioso da filosofia clássica mergulha profundamente na obra do mestre grego para desvendar as complexas interconexões e temas subjacentes que perpassam as sete tetralogias de Platão. Nesta obra magistral, o autor realiza uma análise crítica meticulosa das principais obras do filósofo, explorando desde os diálogos socráticos até as ... Read more

    $3.00 USD