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Social Construction of What?(2000) HACKING, IANLost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking’s book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentiousVezava: Mehka46,09 € -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death(2012) JOHN GRAYVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Knowledge and its Limits(2002) WILLIAMSON, TIMOTHY (WYKEHAM PROFESSOR OF LOGIC, WYKEHAM PROFESSOR OF LOGIC, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a kind of mental state. Williamson casts light on many philosophical problems: scepticism, evidence, probability and assertion, realism and anti-realism, and the limits of whatVezava: Mehka56,05 € -
Survey of Metaphysics(2002) LOWE, E. J. (, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM)A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics in the subject likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The emphasis is on contemporary views and issues rather than on the history of metaphysics.Vezava: Mehka87,49 € -
Impossibility(1999) BARROW, JOHN D.Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. that any Universe complex enough to contain conscious beings will contain limits on what those beings can know aVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Sense and Nonsense(2011) LALAND, KEVIN N. (PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, UK),BROWN, GILLIAN (LECTURER, SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, UK)This book asks whether evolution can help us to understand human behaviour and explores diverse evolutionary methods and arguments. It provides a short, readable introduction to the science behind the works of Dawkins, Dennett, Wilson and Pinker. It is wiVezava: Mehka79,60 € -
Vices of the Mind(2021) CASSAM, QUASSIM (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)Quassim Cassam introduces the idea of epistemic vices, character traits that get in the way of knowledge, such as closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. Using examples from politics to illustrate the vices at work, heVezava: Mehka61,76 € -
Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology 2(2022) TITELBAUM, MICHAEL G. (VILAS DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON)Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts and principles of the Bayesian formalism. Volume 2 introduces applications of Bayesianism to confirmation and decision theory, then gives a critical survey of arVezava: Mehka58,91 € -
Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology 1(2022) TITELBAUM, MICHAEL G. (VILAS DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON)Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts and principles of the Bayesian formalism. This volume introduces degrees of belief as a concept in epistemology and the rules for updating degrees of belief deriVezava: Mehka48,45 € -
Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma Fourth Edition(2020) HENLY, CAROLYN P.,SPRAGUE, JOHNConfidently navigate the Theory of Knowledge Guide with a set of rich and engaging resources,grounded in conceptual considerations and illustrated with real-world examples.Vezava: Mehka99,75 € -
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Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy(2021) ABSHER, BRANDONBrandon Absher demonstrates that the neoliberalization of higher education has led to a paradigm shift in contemporary philosophy in the United States. Neoliberal philosophy aims to produce human capital and profitable knowledge.Vezava: Trda110,81 € -
Sensuous Knowledge(2020) SALAMI, MINNA (MSAFROPOLITAN)Minna Salami captures the mood of a disaffected generation, and forges the path for a radical Black feminist way of knowing for everyone.Vezava: Trda44,55 € -
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