Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge books

Contemporary medicine is Janus-faced. Evidence-based medicine is one face, emphasizing evidence, statistics, and...  Read More >>

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This book argues for rejecting epistemic instrumentalism as a first-order view not because it suffers extensional...  Read More >>

This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern Sociolinguistics. It showcases...  Read More >>

This is the first book devoted to the distinction between propositional and doxastic justification. Its essays advance...  Read More >>

From theories of religious intolerance during the Reformation to the contemporary suppression of religious symbols;...  Read More >>

This volume features new perspectives on the topic of epistemic closure. It connects epistemic closure principles...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought,...  Read More >>

This book develops a novel account of the connections between justification, understanding and knowledge. It lays...  Read More >>

This volume brings together leading scholars working on understanding and representation in philosophy of science....  Read More >>

This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility. The author advocates...  Read More >>

This book provides a systematic treatment of Locke’s theory of probable assent. It shows how the theory applies...  Read More >>

This book discusses the ethical dimension of the interpretation of texts and events. Its purpose is not to address...  Read More >>

This book uses the framework of care ethics to articulate a novel theory of our epistemic obligations to one another....  Read More >>

This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction....  Read More >>

Most of the philosophical literature on truth concentrates on certain ontological and epistemic problems. This book...  Read More >>

This volume examines the relationship between recognition theory and key developments in critical social epistemology....  Read More >>

Explores the place of intellectual virtues and vices in a social world. Chapters are divided into four sections:...  Read More >>

Recent accounts of human agency tend to overlook the role of conscious mental action in our daily lives, while contemporary...  Read More >>

This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. O’Brien looks wider than the miracles essay, turning...  Read More >>

How do you make sense of the world and everything in it? Imagine possessing the ability to delve into the depths...  Read More >>

How do you make sense of the world and everything in it? Imagine possessing the ability to delve into the depths...  Read More >>

Perceptual Content is the first book to discuss and compare the representational characters of all the traditional...  Read More >>

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic...  Read More >>

This volume collects essays by Paul F. Snowdon on the philosophy of perception. The first part refines Snowdon's...  Read More >>