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[2021]
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"What makes for a good education? What does one need to count as well-educated? Knowledge, to be sure. But knowledge is easily forgotten, and today's knowledge may be obsolete tomorrow. Skills, particularly in critical thinking, are crucial as well. But absent the right motivation, graduates may fail to put their skills to good use. In this book, Nathan King argues that intellectual virtues-traits like curiosity, intellectual humility, honesty, intellectual...
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"Reconstruction in Philosophy" by John Dewey is a groundbreaking philosophical work that challenges traditional modes of thinking and calls for a profound reevaluation of philosophical inquiry. In this transformative book, Dewey offers a compelling vision for reconstructing philosophy to better serve the needs and complexities of the modern world. With incisive intellect and deep insight, Dewey argues for a shift away from abstract metaphysical speculations...
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Disappointed by the public reception to "A Treatise of Human Nature", published anonymously between 1739 and 1740, David Hume decided to produce a shorter more polemic version of that work nearly ten years later. That revision, which was published in 1748, would be entitled "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding". Dispensing with much of the extraneous material from the "Treatise", Hume focuses on his more vital propositions in the "Enquiry"....
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First published in 1689, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" is British philosopher John Locke's important and influential exposition on the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. Arranged into four books, the first book begins by rejecting the notion of innate ideas proposed by Descartes and proposes instead that humans are born as blank slates. Book two argues that all knowledge is derived from experience and reflection. Locke also...
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Que signifie connaître ou savoir? Cette redoutable question née avec la philosophie elle-même reste toujours cruciale aujourd'hui. Et, comme le montre la longue histoire de la théorie de la connaissance, de Platon et Aristote aux théoriciens cognitivistes contemporains, on y a répondu diversement. À chaque époque, des penseurs ont contribué magistralement à développer cette discipline, que ce soit par des analyses poussées et souvent techniques...
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"American Peasant, You Could Be One" is the story of America from the 1950's to today. In this book, Step Jones explains how America got to where it is today and how it will go forward. "American Peasant" is all about you, the American citizen, and your freedoms in America.
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Robert Nozick (1938–2002) was the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. Among his works are Philosophical Explanations and The Examined Life. His Anarchy, State, and Utopia won the National Book Award in 1975.
Repeatedly and successfully, the celebrated Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick has reached out to a broad audience beyond the confines of his discipline, addressing ethical and social problems that matter to every...
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This volume, the final in Tim Lilburn's decades-long meditation on philosophy and environmental consequences, traces a relationship between mystic traditions and the political world. Struck by the realization that he did not know how to be where he found himself, Lilburn embarked on a personal attempt at decolonization, seeking to uncover what is wrong within Canadian culture and to locate a possible path to recovery. He proposes a new epistemology...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert, voll verlinkt, mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und Fußnoten Der Tractatus logico-philosophicus ist eines der bedeutendsten Werke der Philosophiegeschichte. Ludwig Wittgenstein stellt darin den Erkenntnisgewinn traditioneller Philosophie in Frage, als Folge der Unschärfe der in philosophischen Abhandlungen verwendeten Begriffe....
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We live in a world that is not governed by Truth. Disagreements surround us. Recent Presidential elections are hotly contested and won by the narrowest of margins. Charges of misinformation, fake news, and bias abound. Everyone claims they are correct; they have the Truth.
Seeking Truth looks at both the philosophical and practical issues of Truth to understand how we come to know what we know and why we disagree so much. More importantly, it lays...
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In “Opining Beauty Itself”, Naomi Reshotko examines Plato's discussions of epistemological states that fall short of knowledge. Wary that interpretations of Plato's epistemology often omit a detailed analysis of the way he deploys the epistemological concepts that are inferior to, but often prerequisites for, knowledge, Reshotko argues that we must understand these inferior prerequisite states, especially belief (doxa), before we can understand...
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François Laruelle proposes a theory of identity rooted in scientific notions of symmetry and chaos, emancipating thought from the philosophical paradigm of Being and reconnecting it with the real world. Unlike most contemporary philosophers, Laruelle does not believe language, history, and the world shape identity but that identity determines our relation to these phenomena. Both critical and constructivist, Theory of Identities finds fault with...
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Detailed presentation of American philosopher's pragmatic concept of epistemology, isolation of realms of existents and subsistents. Chapters include "There is No First Principle of Criticism," Dogma and Doubt," "Wayward Scepticism," "Doubts About Self-Consciousness," "Doubts About Change," "Ultimate Scepticism," "Nothing Given Exists," "Some Authorities for This Conclusion," and "The Discovery of Essence."
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Consumada la Modernidad, el progresivo interés por el aspecto semántico relativo a los hechos del lenguaje ha ensanchado de modo natural el límite de la descripción oracional, por tratarse de una unidad de descripción demasiado estrecha para referir fenómenos asociados al tema o tópico del discurso, tales como los de 'coherencia', 'presuposición', 'intención', entre otros.
En razón de esto, el límite oracional se ha extendido hasta el de...
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Richard Moran is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive...
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Richard Foley is professor of philosophy and vice chancellor for strategic planning at New York University. He is the author of Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others,
Working Without a Net: A Study of Egocentric Epistemology, and The Theory of Epistemic Rationality.
A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her...
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Jacques Bouveresse is Professor of Philosophy at the Collège de France and the author of numerous works on Wittgenstein. Vincent Descombes is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy and usefulness of psychoanalysis,...
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Duncan Pritchard is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where he is the director of Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity. His books include Epistemic Luck and Epistemological Disjunctivism.
Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism-the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us.
Duncan Pritchard...
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This book contains all the famous stories, myths, beliefs, and scientific theories divided according to the continental principle.
Not knowing the meaning of one's existence leads to life becoming like a wreck that the winds of circumstances frantically toss against the rocks of depression and meaninglessness.
Man has always wondered and tried to explain how the world was created and who we are. The interest in the first beginning goes beyond reasonable,...
20) Asentimiento y certeza en el pensamiento de John Henry Newman: Una defensa de la creencia religiosa
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John Henry Newman dedicó gran parte de su esfuerzo intelectual a defender la validez de la creencia religiosa frente los ataques del racionalismo del siglo XIX. Le inquietaba ver cómo sus amigos se dejaban cautivar por el escepticismo generalizado que permeaba las cuestiones religiosas. En su obra filosófica más importante, la Gramática del asentimiento, el Cardenal pone de manifiesto que el problema de fondo es una idea reducida de lo que significa...
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