Philosophie / Épistémologie

Non-Governmental Organizations in World Politics

de Peter Willetts

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Amnesty International and Oxfam to Greenpeace and Save the Children are now key players in global politics. This informative book provides a comprehensive overview...

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second Edition

de Ayn Rand

Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that...

Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious

de Jacques Bouveresse, Carol Cosman & Vincent Descombes

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...

Knowledge

de Ian Evans & Nicholas Smith

Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers. Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith aim to change that. Their...

The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic Perspectives, Continental Virtues

de Brian Lightbody

The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental Perspectives, investigates how the term naturalism is defined and applied in the philosophic secondary literature from two often competing perspectives: analytic...

Epistemology in Classical India: The Knowledge Sources of the Nyaya School

de Stephen H Phillips

In this book, Phillips gives an overview of the contribution of Nyaya--the classical Indian school that defends an externalist position about knowledge as well as an internalist position about justification....

Science & Governance - Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously

de Various

“This report is the product of an expert working group acting under mandate from the European Commission Directorate General for Research (DG RTD), on the topic of European science and governance. We interpreted...

Approaching the Navel of the Darkened Soul

de Romano Màdera

In order to conduct a well-grounded search for meaning, this book wants to renew the ancient attempt to seek wisdom in everyday life, training ourselves to modify our own perceptions of the world in as authentic...

Plurality and Perspective in Psychoanalysis

de Adam Rosen-Carole

The book provides a defense of the rational authority of psychoanalytic knowledge that does justice to the plurality of psychoanalytic perspectives and resolves central impasses in the psychoanalytic literature...

Contrastivism in Philosophy

de Martijn Blaauw

Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement. This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on the contrastive...

Come Along: We Are Truth-Bound

de Jacinta Respondowska

Come Along is an attempt to respond to the contemporary crises in the world with the intention of discovering the path to peace and happiness, which every human heart craves.

Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy

de John D. Dunne

Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy is part of Wisdom's acclaimed Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series. Dharmakirti is a central figure in the history of Buddhist philosophy. John Dunne's extraordinary...

Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

de Robert Audi

This comprehensive book introduces the concepts and theories central for understanding knowledge. It aims to reach students who have already done an introductory philosophy course.

Topics covered include perception...

How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge

de Stephen Hetherington

Some key aspects of contemporary epistemology deserve to be challenged, and How to Know does just that. This book argues that several long-standing presumptions at the heart of the standard analytic conception...

The Problems with Philosophy

de Bertrand Russell

'The Problems of Philosophy' discusses Bertrand Russell's views on philosophy and the problems that arise in the field. Russell's views focus on knowledge rather than the metaphysical realm of philosophy. 'The...

Moral Perception

de Robert Audi

We can see a theft, hear a lie, and feel a stabbing. These are morally important perceptions. But are they also moral perceptions--distinctively moral responses? In this book, Robert Audi develops an original...

Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self

de Zachary Simpson

Life as Art synthesizes a number of aesthetic theories in philosophy after 1850 and shows the ways in which they contribute to a unified field of analysis and potential implementation. The book is framed both...

Bertrand Russell's Theory of Knowledge

de Elizabeth Ramsden Eames

When future generations come to analyze and survey twentieth-century philosophy as a whole, Bertrand Russell's logic and theory of knowledge is assured a place of prime importance. Yet until this book was first...

Bertrand Russell on Education

de Joe Park

Although scholars from many disciplines have turned their attention to Russell's work and appraised its significance for a number of fields, and an extensive literature on him emerged, until this book, first...

Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction

de John Heil

When first published, John Heil's introduction quickly became a widely used guide for students with little or no background in philosophy to central issues of philosophy of mind.? Heil provided an introduction...