Zbirka: Filozofija: Epistemologija in teorija znanja
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Meaning in Absurdity – What bizarre phenomena can tell us about the nature of reality(2012) KASTRUP, BERNARDOA compelling and eloquent articulation of a future when humanity will transcend logic and find profound meaning in the absurd.Vezava: Mehka15,43 € -
Guide For the Perplexed(1995) SCHUMACHER, E FSchumacher's classic work of philosophy and a statement of the philosophies that underpin his economic masterpiece Small is Beautiful. Schumacher asserts that it is the task of philosophy to provide a map of life and knowledge, which exhibits the most impVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Construction of Social Reality(1996) SEARLE, JOHNThis short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense(2008) WILLIAMS, JAMES (HONORARY PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY)This book offers the first critical study of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense, his most important work on language and ethics.Vezava: Mehka47,88 € -
Epistemic Injustice(2009) FRICKER, MIRANDA (BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)Epistemology as it has traditionally been pursued has been impoverished by the lack of any theoretical framework conducive to revealing the ethical and political aspects of our epistemic conduct. Miranda Fricker shows that virtue epistemology provides a gVezava: Mehka62,71 € -
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 € -
Mismeasure of the Self(2021) TANESINI, ALESSANDRA (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY)This book is about vices of superiority, characteristic of those who feel entitled and have an inflated opinion of themselves, and vices of inferiority, typical of those who are riddled with self-doubt and feel inferior. Alessandra Tanesini shows the damaVezava: Trda139,43 € -
William James(2022) DAVIS, PHILIP (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL)This volume discusses the life and work of William James (1842-1910), a founder of the study of psychology. It concerns life-writing and writing for the sake of existence and combines literature, psychology, philosophy, and biography.Vezava: Trda38,00 € -
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 €
