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  • Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment

    Bishop and Trout here present a unique and provocative new approach to epistemology (the theory of human knowledge and reasoning). Their approach aims to liberate epistemology from the scholastic debates of standard analytic epistemology, and treat it as a branch of the philosophy of science. The approach is novel in its use of cost-benefit analysis to guide people facing real reasoning problems ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Globalization and the Decolonial Option

    This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Introduction to New Realism

    Introduction to New Realism provides an overview of the movement of contemporary thought named New Realism, by its creator and most celebrated practitioner, Maurizio Ferraris. Sharing significant concerns and features with Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, New Realism can be said to be one of the most prescient philosophical positions today. Its desire to overcome the postmodern ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Ignorance

    (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge)

    Historically, there has been great deliberation about the limits of human knowledge. Isaac Newton, recognizing his own shortcomings, once described himself as "a boy standing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all underscored before me."In Ignorance, Nicholas Rescher presents a broad-ranging study that examines the manifestations, consequences, and occasional benefits of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • From Logic to Practice

    Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together young researchers from a variety of fields within mathematics, philosophy and logic. It discusses questions that arise in their work, as well as themes and reactions that appear to be similar in different contexts. The book shows that a fairly intensive activity in the philosophy of mathematics is underway, due on the one hand to the disillusionment with respect to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Locke's Science of Knowledge

    by Matt Priselac ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding begins with a clear statement of an epistemological goal: to explain the limits of human knowledge, opinion, and ignorance. The actual text of the Essay, in stark contrast, takes a long and seemingly meandering path before returning to that goal at the Essay’s end—one with many detours through questions in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind

    New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga

    In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. Plantinga has earned particular respect within the community of Christian philosophers for the pivotal role that he played in the recent ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • Practical Tortoise Raising

    and other philosophical essays

    Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in the sphere of practical thought. It is puzzling how our thinking gets to grip with such things as values and norms. Blackburn explores how we can ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion

    European Perspectives

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dearth of interaction by placing the fields in an intimate dialogue. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing on feminist scholarship, the book undertakes theoretical and empirical explorations of relational and co-constitutive encounters of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Hindu Worldviews

    Theories of Self, Ritual and Reality

    Designed to help readers deepen their understanding of Hinduism, and reflecting themes central to the study of religion and culture, Jessica Frazier explores classical Hindu theories of self, the body, the cosmos, and human action. Case studies from Hindu texts provide readers with direct access to primary sources in translation, ranging from ancient cosmology to philosophical teachings and modern ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Toward a Phenomenology of Addiction: Embodiment, Technology, Transcendence

    by Frank Schalow ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book addresses an epidemic that has developed on a global scale, and, which under the heading of “addiction,” presents a new narrative about the travails of the human predicament. The book introduces phenomenological motifs, such as desire, embodiment, and temporality, to uncover the existential roots of addiction, and develops Martin Heidegger’s insights into technology to uncover the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Collective Memory & the Historical Past

    "Barash seeks to safeguard history from mythology . . . deep and wide-ranging [yet] the author's prose is clear and accessible. Highly recommended." — ChoiceThere is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has ... Read more

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