Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Books
Harvard University Press Whistleblowing
Book SynopsisSociety needs whistleblowers, yet to speak up and expose wrongdoing often results in professional and personal ruin. Drawing on the stories of men and women who reported unethical and illegal conduct in corporations, Kate Kenny explains why this is so, and what must be done to protect those who have the courage to expose the truth.Trade ReviewAt its heart are the compelling stories of men and women who exposed wrongdoing in financial services companies, and the consequences they bore…Kenny paints a picture of a financial services industry where rules are gamed, ethics are not discussed, and employees fear retaliation if they speak out…Kenny concludes that we should view whistleblowing as a social act and take collective responsibility for what happens to those who expose wrongdoing. -- Sue Lewis * Financial Adviser *Quietly authoritative yet still reasonably accessible. -- Mark Paul * Irish Times *A devastating analysis of the ‘matrix of censorship’ which leads to whistleblowers being abused. This matrix could push us to the brink of another economic catastrophe. -- Greg Wright * Yorkshire Post *This is a superb book that makes an excellent contribution to an important area of our thinking about, lives within, and work for organizations. It is destined to be a landmark volume in this field. -- Mark Stein, University of LeicesterKenny’s book on whistleblowing is a refreshing contribution to the field. Its insightful theoretical approach facilitates her analysis of whistleblowing in a variety of contexts within the financial services to provide qualitative revelations of how even when employed to ensure compliance with regulations, people of conscience are ostracized and often silenced. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about our future. -- David Knights, Lancaster UniversityKenny has produced a uniquely positioned text of great insight as she weaves philosophical sophistication, especially the writing of Judith Butler, with precise analysis of whistleblowing. A must-read. -- Alison Pullen, Macquarie UniversityThis book provides an insightful study of whistleblowing and widespread corruption in the global financial industry that recent whistleblowers have brought to light. Additionally, it reveals the struggles that whistleblowing entails and develops the concept of ‘affective recognition’ to explain how these are bound up with retaliation against whistleblowers in their fight to be heard. -- Iain Munro, Newcastle UniversityWe live in societies in which organizations are powerful, and their employees are relatively powerless. In this important and beautifully written book, Kenny explains why this is a social issue of great importance. If we want societies that value justice, then speaking truth to power needs to be encouraged and protected by all of us. -- Martin Parker, University of BristolThe arrival of Kenny’s Whistleblowing is very timely given the growing recognition of the important role whistleblowers play in society. It makes a passionate plea for supporting courageous individuals whose disclosures have numerous times saved the public from harm, prevented major disasters, and revealed widespread forms of wrongdoing. The book takes a unique approach to explain what makes individuals who disclose wrongdoing continue their struggle for transparency despite all odds. Readers who seek interpretations extending beyond the villain–hero dichotomy will find this thoughtful and sophisticated analysis of whistleblowing truly rewarding. -- Marianna Fotaki, coauthor of Gender and the Organization: Women at Work in the 21st Century
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Princeton University Press Descartess Changing Mind
Book SynopsisDescartes' works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. This book argues that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works - and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes.Trade Review"Machamer and McGuire painstakingly trace the development of Descartes' views on the means and extent of human knowledge as it relates to science and metaphysics. Beginning with a conception of knowledge as based on abstraction from sensory experience and as capable of delivering truths about the simple natures of things in his early work, Descartes, they argue, radically changes his mind about the powers and scope of the mind, arriving finally at a conception that relies heavily upon innate ideas and a limitation of humans' cognitive reach to a world that is suitably framed to their natures as mind-body unities."--Choice "Machamer and McGuire are thus to be congratulated for taking on the difficult task of providing a reading of Descartes's entire corpus, spanning over two decades and five completed works, that treats it as a dynamic progression, rather than a static system. In so doing, they pay careful attention to the historical chronology, the Scholastic background, Descartes's replies to his philosophical interlocutors, and the scholarship on issues central to Descartes's mature positions. The result is a rich and controversial story that always engages the reader even if it does not always convince."--Helen Hattab, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "I believe that [Peter Machamer & J. E. McGuire] are to be commended for enabling us to take seriously the view that Descartes's opinions may have shifted in significant ways and for illustrating a different way to tell the story of the arc of Descartes's career."--Michael Della Rocca, MetascienceTable of ContentsPreface ix CHAPTER ONE: From Method to Epistemology and from Metaphysics to the Epistemic Stance 1 Descartes's Early Work: The Rules 5 The World 14 The Discourse on Method 24 CHAPTER TWO: God and Efficient Causation 36 A Historical Preamble 37 God's Efficient Causation and the Introduction of Causa Secundum Esse 45 God, Time, and Continual Creation: The Emergence of Re-creationism 59 Causal Axioms and Common Notions 73 CHAPTER THREE: Seeing the Implications of His Causal Views: The Response to His Critics 82 God as Causa Sui: The High Tide of Descartes's Causalism 83 Eminent Containment, Transcendence, Divine Powers, and God's Causal Harmony 91 Epistemic Teleology 102 CHAPTER FOUR: Body-Body Causation and the Cartesian World of Matter 111 The Current Debate on Body-Body Causation 111 The Early Descartes 116 Cartesian Conservationism 119 Three Questions of Metaphysics: Principles Parts I and II 127 Mature Motion 134 The Place of Our Position in the Current Debate 157 CHAPTER FIVE: Mind, Intuition, Innateness, and Ideas 164 Intuition and Enumeration 165 Ideas and Descartes's New Theory of Mind 169 Innate Ideas 176 Innateness and Sensory Ideas 183 Innate Ideas: Present but Swamped 186 Innateness and Intellectual Memory 188 Common Notions, Eternal Truths, and Immutable Natures 193 CHAPTER SIX: Mind-Body Causality and the Mind-Body Union: The Case of Sensation 198 Sensation 199 The Physical Side of Perception 202 The Mental Side of Perception 209 How the Soul Moves the Body, or Mind-to-Body Causation 221 The Nature of the Distinction between Mind and Body 224 The Mind-Body (Soul-Body) Union 232 Epistemic Teleology and Dualism 239 References 243 Index 251
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Princeton University Press Knowing Full Well
Book SynopsisExplaining the nature of knowledge, this book presents an account of the author's views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. It shows how experience should be understood if it is to figure in the epistemic competence that must be manifest in the truth of any belief apt enough to constitute knowledge.Trade Review"[T]his book ... develops further the ideas about grades of knowledge for which [Sosa] is known. It is interesting, novel, often convincing, and extraordinarily clearly written. I admire it."--Adam Morton, Philosophy Reviews "A leading figure in epistemology for three decades, Sosa's reputation in this field could not rise any higher. This new work condenses his overall views on the traditional point of epistemology, namely the effort to justify a consistent preference for knowledge over mere true belief."--Choice "This brilliant book develops and defends the highly influential virtue-theoretic approach to knowledge its author originated three decades ago. An obvious 'must read' for students of contemporary epistemology, the book's breadth and clarity combined with the author's disciplinary stature will make it appealing to a wide range of theorists working outside epistemology, including philosophers of mind and action."--E.J. Coffman, Philosophical Review "Sosa's work has been at the center of many of these debates. Knowing Full Well is the latest and most sophisticated and mature statement of his views on several of the relevant topics. It is a must-read for anyone with an interest in normative epistemology."--Jason Baehr, MindTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Chapter One: Knowing Full Well 1 Chapter Two: Epistemic Agency 14 Chapter Three: Value Matters in Epistemology 35 Chapter Four: Three Views of Human Knowledge 67 Chapter Five: Contextualism 96 Chapter Six: Propositional Experience 108 Chapter Seven: Knowledge: Instrumental and Testimonial 128 Chapter Eight: Epistemic Circularity 140 Summing Up 159 Index 161
£40.50
Princeton University Press Michael Oakeshotts Skepticism
Book SynopsisThe English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century. This title presents an original account of Oakeshott's skepticism about foundations, an account that newly reveals the unity of his thought.Trade Review"During a time when the fragility of things is so palpable, Aryeh Botwinick's re-engagement with the work of Michael Oakeshott is invaluable. He shows us how Oakeshott's skepticism turns sharply back upon itself, how he draws us toward a tacit dimension that is itself both real and fragile, and how, once human anger against the complexity of skepticism is overcome, this stance can provide a live medium from which a generous ethic emerges. Botwinick reads Oakeshott in relation to Hobbes, Wittgenstein, Levinas, and Heidegger, as he also periodically reads Oakeshott against himself. A timely and illuminating study."—William E. Connolly, author of A World of Becoming"The literature on Oakeshott tends to emphasize the independence of his thought and the problem of how to classify him, a problem that Aryeh Botwinick neatly sidesteps by taking an entirely different line. Oakeshott turns out to be in agreement or dialogue with a range of other thinkers, including Nietzsche and Arendt. This is a fresh and rewarding approach that provides a new perspective on Oakeshott's thought and its significance."—Oliver Leaman, University of KentuckyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1: Introduction: Epistemological Backdrop 1 Chapter 2: Metaphysics 29 Chapter 3: Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Science 49 Chapter 4: Political Theory 117 Chapter 5: Philosophy of Conversation and Philosophy of Personal Identity 132 Chapter 6: Philosophy of Law and Philosophy of History 194 Notes 223 Index 241
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Princeton University Press Rules
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year""Winner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers""Fascinating. . . . [Daston] writes with a twinkling wit."---Timothy Farrington, Wall Street Journal"In considering a series of historic anecdotes and texts, Daston helps us see rules (and their neighbors, such as laws and regulations) through the concepts of thickness and thinness, paradigms and algorithms, failures (it was nearly impossible to get eighteenth-century Parisians to stop playing ball in the streets), and states of exception. . . .By the end of Daston’s book, one feels a sense of clarity about how to think about rules, alongside a gentle sense of despair concerning what kinds of rules to hope for."---Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker"Wonderful and wildly ambitious. . . . For those of us who adore the deep and transformative history of concepts, [Rules] is a pure dopamine rush. I read it with jaw dropped and mind racing."---C. Thi Nguyen, Chronicle of Higher Education"[Daston writes] witty, wide-ranging and well-researched inquiries into the picaresque careers of such notions as ‘reality,’ ‘nature,’ ‘rationality,’ ‘objectivity’ and ‘order,’ and in her latest book she brings her wry historical intelligence to bear on the capacious concept of ‘rules.’ The delights of her scholarship are on full display."---Jonathan Rée, Times Literary Supplement"A timely release that will satisfy the mathematically curious, who hunger to know how algorithms actually work, as well anyone who loves debating policy." * Library Journal *"Rules is ultimately one of the best written, most profound, and most far-reaching works of intellectual history that I have ever read."---Ernest Davis, SIAM News"Fascinating and highly readable. . . .This book is a real tour de force of erudition and analysis with richly revealing examples."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"The book is an exemplary intellectual history: a rangy, quirky, lucid and profound discussion."---Colin Burrow, London Review of Books
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Princeton University Press Hegel on SelfConsciousness
Book SynopsisIn the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of thesTrade Review"Pippin, one of the finest contemporary scholars on Kant and post-Kantian German idealism, presents here two essays that focus on two of Hegel's claims--that self-consciousness is desire itself, and that it finds its satisfaction only in others... Pippin's essays provide a skillful interpretation of one of the most important parts of Hegel's corpus, and illuminate Phenomenology of Spirit as well as historical and contemporary interpretations of Hegel's account of self-consciousness."--Choice "This book should appeal to readers interested in the Phenomenology of Spirit, especially graduate students and researches who wish to understand the contemporary significance of Hegel's account of self-consciousness for McDowell and Brandom. Pippin has provided a lucid reading of these very dense passages. Regardless of whether one agrees with Pippin's reading, it will prove difficult for Hegel scholars to ignore."--Corey McCall, Philosophy in Review "Pippin's overall interpretation is clear, insightful, and an important contribution to both Hegel scholarship and philosophical understandings of self-consciousness in general. It will be an important book for those interested in Hegel or self-consciousness."--Joseph Arel, European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introductory Remarks 1 Chapter One: On Hegel's Claim That Self-Consciousness Is "Desire Itself" (Begierde uberhaupt) 6 Chapter Two: On Hegel's Claim That "Self-Consciousness Finds Its Satisfaction Only in Another Self-Consciousness" 54 Concluding Remarks 88 Index 99
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Princeton University Press Epistemic Angst
Book SynopsisEpistemic 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 argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed of two logically distinct problems, each requiring iTrade Review"[An] innovative, clearly written, and wide-ranging book."--Daniel Immerman, Grazer Philosophische StudienTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part 1. Epistemic Angst 9 Chapter 1. Radical Skepticism and Closure 11 1. The Contemporary Radical Skeptical Paradox 11 2. Undercutting versus Overriding Anti-skeptical Strategies 16 3. An Overriding Anti-skeptical Strategy (I): Nonclosure 17 4. An Overriding Anti-skeptical Strategy (II): Epistemic Externalism 19 5. Radical Skepticism about Rationally Grounded Knowledge 22 6. An Overriding Anti-skeptical Strategy (III): Abductivism 25 7. Concluding Remarks 28 Chapter 2. Radical Skepticism and Underdetermination 29 0. Introductory Remarks 29 1. Radical Skepticism and the Underdetermination Principle 29 2. An Overriding Anti-skeptical Strategy: Epistemic Externalism 32 3. Attributer Contextualism as an Overriding Anti-skeptical Strategy 36 4. Attributer Contextualism as an Undercutting Anti-skeptical Strategy 40 5. Comparing the Two Forms of Radical Skepticism 46 6. The Source of Underdetermination-Based Radical Skepticism 49 7. Two Sources of Radical Skepticism 54 8. Anti-skeptical Desiderata 58 Part 2. Wittgenstein and the Groundlessness of Our Believing 61 Chapter 3. Wittgenstein on the Structure of Rational Evaluation 63 0. Introductory Remarks 63 1. Wittgenstein on the Structure of Rational Evaluation 63 2. Wittgenstein contra the Skeptical "Paradox" 66 3. A Core Problem for the Wittgensteinian Account of the Structure of Rational Evaluation 70 4. Epistemic Ways of Developing the Wittgensteinian Account of the Structure of Rational Evaluation (I): The Externalist Reading 73 5. Epistemic Ways of Developing the Wittgensteinian Account of the Structure of Rational Evaluation (II): The Entitlement Reading 77 6. A Nonepistemic Way of Developing the Wittgensteinian Account of the Structure of Rational Evaluation: The Nonpropositional Reading 84 7. Concluding Remarks 87 Chapter 4. Hinge Commitments 89 0. Introductory Remarks 89 1. The Nonbelief Reading 90 2. Hinge Commitments 94 3. Anti-skeptical Contrasts (I): Inferential Contextualism 103 4. Anti-skeptical Contrasts (II): Strawsonian Naturalism 110 5. Anti-skeptical Contrasts (III): Davidsonian Content Externalism 112 6. Wittgensteinian Anti-skepticism and Underdetermination-Based Radical Skepticism 113 7. Epistemic Priority and Underdetermination-Based Radical Skepticism 116 8. Concluding Remarks 118 Part 3. Epistemological Disjunctivism 121 Chapter 5. Epistemological Disjunctivism and the Factivity of Reasons 123 0. Introductory Remarks 123 1. Epistemological Disjunctivism in Outline 123 2. Three Core Problems for Epistemological Disjunctivism 127 3. Epistemological Disjunctivism qua Anti-skeptical Strategy 132 4. Radical Skepticism and Favoring/Discriminating Epistemic Support 136 5. Concluding Remarks 142 Chapter 6. Epistemological Disjunctivism and Closure-Based Radical Skepticism 144 0. Introductory Remarks 144 1. Anti-skeptical Contrasts (I): Rational Support Contextualism 144 2. Anti-skeptical Contrasts (II): Contrastivism 153 3. Anti-skeptical Contrasts (III): Dogmatism 157 4. A Weakness in Epistemological Disjunctivism 160 5. Epistemological Disjunctivism and Its Competitors 163 6. Concluding Remarks 166 Part 4. Farewell to Epistemic Angst 167 Chapter 7. Farewell to Epistemic Angst 169 0. Introductory Remarks 169 1. Recap: The Problem of Radical Skepticism 169 2. The Biscopic Proposal: Epistemic Angst Avoided 173 3. Some Anti-skeptical Contrasts 179 4. Concluding Postscript: Epistemic Vertigo 184 Notes 189 Bibliography 217 Index 237
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Princeton University Press Mirror Mirror
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mirror, Mirror is a short, relaxed book, for the educated lay reader... Reading him, we feel as if we were sitting in a comfortable chair, after dinner, listening to our friend Blackburn tell us not so much about politics or social history as about what lies behind them: morals--that is, what we owe to others, as opposed to what we want for ourselves... [H]is prose is clear. It is also unostentatious."--Joan Acocella, New Yorker "Blackburn writes on vanity, pride and amour proper with deep insight."--Marina Gerner, Times Literary Supplement "[A] lucid and graceful philosophical probing of self-consciousness... Simon Blackburn's Mirror, Mirror is a very fine and brilliant book, full of the sort of measured analysis and keen insight you might expect from that excellent University of Cambridge philosopher... Blackburn is not just a sure and supremely knowledgeable narrator in whom we can have utmost confidence, but one with a quirky ear, alert to the curious side note and irrefutable detail that can make his sometimes dusty discipline gleam with a new sheen and edge."--Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education "[O]ne of the best popularisers of his discipline."--The Economist "[T]he energy of his prose is generally exhilarating, and often funny... [A]n agile, learned tour of the emotions and attitudes that human beings have towards their own and other selves. Drawing on an eclectic array of texts from literature, psychology and philosophy, Blackburn examines the ways in which a healthy self-respect, and pride in one's real achievements, can tip into vanity, envy and hubris. In doing so he puts the heat not only on the richest 1 per cent, but on us all, and all our follies."--Hannah Dawson, Prospect "Blackburn never waxes memoiristic; he uses the first person sparingly. Still, the book implies a quest, Socrates-like, for self-knowledge--by no means to be confused with what Narcissus was after."--Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed "Guiding us gracefully through the philosophers and writers of subjectivity ... Blackburn's book is quietly insistent on the potency of rigorous thinking about subjectivity in the face of a deluded, hubristic and dangerous narcissism... Blackburn makes his points with seriousness and severity, but also with a quietly lyrical sensitivity to the necessity of self-respect as a foundation for the respect of others... An admirable calling for philosophers, psychologists and students of myth alike."--Helen Tyson, Literary Review "Simon Blackburn explores the complex phenomena surrounding selves and self-regard, offering deep insights into notions like pride, ambition, vanity, authenticity, and much else."--newbooksinphilosophy.com "Showing the ways pride and shame work together is Blackburn at his best... This is a book by a philosopher who knows the history of ideas as well as anyone working today, written in Blackburn's witty, accessible, self-deprecating style. I recommend it with enthusiasm. With my own tendency toward misanthropy, I closed the book envying him his evident respect for and even love of other human beings."--Clancy Martin, Chronicle of Higher Education "Blackburn's grasp on the subject is impeccable and his lucid narrative is loaded with nuggets of wisdom... The book provides enough resources for self-correction, a search for true self, based on a hard process of analysis, discovery and purification."--Cover Drive Blog "Quoting Miss Piggy and Wittgenstein with equal ease, Blackburn maps the terrain of self-love in its many manifestations from self-esteem to vanity, narcissism, and beyond."--Choice "Writing in his usual witty style, Blackburn weaves together insights from Greek mythology, popular culture, literature, and the history of philosophy to develop a remarkably seamless discussion."--Lorraine Besser-Jones, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Blackburn's tone is light-hearted and often entertaining, and I don't doubt the book's appeal to a generalist audience wishing to take pleasure in a well-crafted distillation of philosophical ideas of the good life."--Julie Walsh, Centre for Medical Humanities "Blackburn's wide ranging, engaging, and deeply thoughtful volume is admirable for many reasons, but above all else, one hopes, it is a tool to help liberate the human imagination."--Troy Jollimore, Philosophers' Magazine "I found Blackburn's treatment of issues surrounding self-love and self-consciousness to be engaging, readable, and thought-provoking, and the book is therefore recommended."--Philip T. Yanos, PsycCRITIQUES "Blackburn's wide-ranging, engaging, and deeply thoughtful volume is admirable for many reasons, but above all else, one hopes, it is a tool to help liberate the human imagination."--Troy Jollimore, Philosophers' MagazineTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Self: Iris Murdoch and Uncle William 12 Chapter 2 Liriope's Son 35 Chapter 3 Worth It? 44 Chapter 4 Hubris and the Fragile Self 61 Chapter 5 Self-Esteem, Amour Propre, Pride 79 Chapter 6 Respect 109 Chapter 7 Temptation 132 Chapter 8 Integrity, Sincerity, Authenticity 163 Chapter 9 Envoi 187 Notes 191 Index 203
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Princeton University Press Hegels Social Ethics Religion Conflict and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Engaging and humane."---Robert Stern, Mind"The clearest reading of Hegel ever published in English."---Martin Kavka, Modern TheologyTable of ContentsPreface ix A Note on Primary Texts xiii 1 Social Ethics in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 1 2 Tragedy and the Social Construction of Norms 13 3 Culture War and the Appeal to Authority 35 4 Rituals of Reconciliation 54 5 Religion, Philosophy, and the Absolute 81 6 Commitment, Conversation, and Contestation 101 7 Democratic Authority through Conf lict and Reconciliation 115 Notes 133 Bibliography 151 Index 159
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Princeton University Press Ultimate Questions
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Magee's writing always makes very easy reading."--Anthony Kenny, Standpoint "[Magee] writes with relaxed fluency."--Rowan Williams, New Statesman "[Bryan Magee] writes with grace and offers a thoughtful summation of human experience."--Library Journal "Living and dying in a world we accept we do not understand may not sound easy, but if Magee is any guide, the reward of doing so is endless and profound wonder."--Julian Baggini, Independent "Magee is refreshingly comfortable acknowledging the uncanniness of human experience, including the aesthetic as well as the ethical... His case for acknowledging the extent of what we do not know is a useful corrective to 'jolly hockey sticks' humanism as well as religious dogma."--Dolan Cummings, Spiked "[Ultimate Questions] is ... a deeply personal and elegant summary of [Magee's] own individual journey to and through profound philosophical questions."--ChoiceTable of Contents1 Time and Space 1 2 Finding Our Bearings 17 3 The Human Predicament 33 4 Can Experience Be Understood? 59 5 Where Such Ideas Come From 69 6 Personal Reflections 87 7 Our Predicament Summarized 105 Index 129
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Princeton University Press Epistemic Angst
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] innovative, clearly written, and wide-ranging book."---Daniel Immerman, Grazer Philosophische Studien"Pritchard is an excellent analytic philosopher and manifests to a high degree the analytic philosophical skills of conceptual sophistication and rigour of reasoning."---Peter Davson-Galle, Science and Education
£25.20
Princeton University Press Hegels Social Ethics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Engaging and humane."---Robert Stern, Mind"The clearest reading of Hegel ever published in English."---Martin Kavka, Modern Theology
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Princeton University Press Authority and Democracy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[This] book sets out on a journey to determine the appropriate exercise of democratic authority in government in the private sector. While the journey is challenging, the book reaches the destination."--Jack H. Knott, Political Science Quarterly "Authority and Democracy is a tightly argued book. McMahon seeks to differentiate among three types of authority in private and public organizations: authority based on expertise, authority derived from promises, and authority developed as a result of engaging in a cooperative enterprise... this book draws important linkages among the writings on democracy, management theory, and employee self-ownership."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface1Introduction3Pt. IAuthority in General and in Government232Authority253Moral Principles and Social Facts524The Justification of Authority855Democracy128Pt. IIManagerial Authority1676Management and Morality1697Managerial Authority as P-Authority1948Managerial Authority as C-Authority2319Managerial Democracy258Works Cited293Index303
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ordinary Knowledge An Introduction to
Book Synopsis* A provocative and challenging book which argues for a defiant innovation of thought* Puts forward a compelling argument: that everyday life should be regarded as a privileged object of investigation* The author is one of the leading sociologists of fin de siecle culture and society. .Trade Review"Maffesoli's feel for the local places him in the vanguard of postmodern sociology. Maffesoli's scholarship, his insight into contemporary subjectivity and his understanding of relativism make this book an important intervention in the field of contemporary cultural analysis." Roy Boyne, School of Human Studies, University of Teesside "Maffesoli develops his arguments with the same elegance and sensitivity to style to which he draws attention in social life itself. There can be no doubt that Maffesoli is one of the leading sociological analysts of the fin de siècle." William Outhwaite, School of European Studies, University of SussexTable of ContentsPerspectives. Introduction. 1. The Fascination of Positivism. 2. The Experience of Relativism. 3. The Ideological Function. 4. Towards a Sociological 'Formism'. 5. The Analogical Method. 6. Physical and Social 'Correspondence'. 7. Ever Renewed Life. 8. The Epistemology of Everyday Life. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Truth and Justification
Book SynopsisIn this important book, Jurgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of philosophy.Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction VII Introduction: Realism after the Linguistic Turn 1 1. Hermeneutic and Analytic Philosophy: Two Complementary Versions of the Linguistic Turn 51 2. From Kant's "Ideas" of Pure Reason to the "Idealizing" Presuppositions of Communicative Action: Reflections on the Detranscendentalized "Use of Reason" 83 3. From Kant to Hegel: On Robert Brandom's Pragmatic Philosophy of Language 131 4. From Kant to Hegel and Back Again: The Move toward Detranscendentalization 175 5. Norms and Values: On Hilary Putnam's Kantian Pragmatism 213 6. Rightness versus Truth: On the Sense of Normative Validity in MoraiJudgments and Norms 237 7. The Relationship between Theory and Practice Revisited 277 Notes 293 Index 321
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Emotion and Imagination
Book SynopsisRecent years have seen an enormous amount of philosophical research into the emotions and the imagination, but as yet little work has been done to connect the two.Trade Review"Friends of Adam Morton's work will find familiar strengths in this essay in moral psychology: detailed attention to the peculiarities of cases and a hostility to easy formulations, matched by lucid arguments that keep the general aim in view. He has surprising things to say about imagining; mice do it, apparently. But we, unlike mice, can use imagination to help to shape our own emotions, and hence to structure our own moral lives. All in all, this is a splendid attempt to think through the complex issue of what the imagination can and cannot do for us."Gregory Currie, University of Nottingham"Adam Morton is a pioneering and original thinker whose provocative and insightful work on emotion and imagination has pushed the field in important new directions. It's exciting to have a book-length treatment of these issues from such an interesting and creative mind."Tamar Gendler, Yale University"Morton takes us on a journey of the imagination into the imagination. His kaleidoscope of examples compels us to believe that emotions involve the imagination in sometimes unexpected, but always fascinating ways. A great read!"Heidi Maibom, Carleton UniversityTable of ContentsPreface vii Part I The range of emotions Refined emotions 3 Imagining in emotions 8 Seeing as 17 Emotions and thinking 22 Keeping mood and emotion distinct 29 Pressure 37 Categories of emotion 44 Part II Imagining vile emotions Imagining what we shouldn’t feel 53 Imagining minds: emotions and perspectives 56 Imagining a point of view 63 Misimagination 74 Imagining invented characters: fiction and philosophy 83 Invisible everyday failures 88 Imagining awful actions 94 Sympathy versus empathy 101 The tradeoff 108 Part III Memotions The threat of irrelevance 117 Retracting emotions 122 Emotions with multiple points of view 128 The variety of moral emotions 134 Emotional learning 142 Smugness 149 Part IV Families of emotions The ideas and the questions 157 Shame, regret, embarrassment, remorse 159 Shame-like versus regret-like 164 Ghosts 170 Looking backward and looking inward 175 Gaps in the pattern: shame versus guilt 180 Two kinds of pride 184 The smug family 189 Dark humour, radical possibilities 194 Shaping our emotions 198 End: a virtue if imagination 206 Notes 210 References 219 Index 229
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Consciousness
Book SynopsisEach of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience. Nothing is more basic to our lives as thinking beings and nothing, it seems, is better known to us. But the ever-expanding reach of natural science suggests that everything in our world is ultimately physical.Trade ReviewA lively and readable tour of the main philosophical approaches to consciousness. For anyone new to the topic, or for those wanting an update on the latest ideas, Weisberg is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide.Alex Byrne, MIT Consciousness is a tour de force. It covers all the major theories and important empirical findings about consciousness in an inviting, accessible way, drawing penetrating, often novel, connections among the various positions and controversies. The result is a balanced, revealing map of current work on consciousness that makes significant contributions to current discussion. This is essential reading for anybody interested in consciousness and it will surely become a standard in both undergraduate and graduate courses.David Rosenthal, CUNYTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 The Problem 1 2 Mysterianism 19 3 Dualism 35 4 Nonreductive Views 53 5 The Identity Theory 71 6 Functionalism 90 7 First-Order Representationalism 108 8 Higher-Order Representationalism 127 Notes 147 References 154 Index 163
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Consciousness
Book SynopsisEach of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience. Nothing is more basic to our lives as thinking beings and nothing, it seems, is better known to us. But the ever-expanding reach of natural science suggests that everything in our world is ultimately physical.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 The Problem 1 2 Mysterianism 19 3 Dualism 35 4 Nonreductive Views 53 5 The Identity Theory 71 6 Functionalism 90 7 First-Order Representationalism 108 8 Higher-Order Representationalism 127 Notes 147 References 154 Index 163
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Emotion
Book SynopsisEmotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and structure our relationships with others.Trade Review"In this short book Carolyn Price elegantly condenses a sophisticated understanding of the philosophy of emotion into eight very readable chapters. While offering a novel explanation and defence of a functionalist, teleosemantic position, the book also situates this position clearly and fairly in wider philosophical debates about emotion. As such, Price's measured assessments of alternative positions also offer an excellent introduction to readers who are new to this important and emerging topic. The book will be stimulating reading for students and researchers alike." Christopher Bennett, University of Sheffield "This is a splendid book: clearly written, empirically informed, philosophically astute, and a pleasure to read. It contains a wealth of good arguments, and makes interesting and original points on all of the central issues in the philosophy of emotion. Highly recommended."Michael Brady, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Four theories of emotion Chapter 3 Emotion, coherence and function Chapter 4 What is an emotion? Chapter 5 What is an emotional evaluation? Chapter 6 What are emotional evaluations about? Chapter 7 The rationality of emotion Chapter 8 The manipulation of emotion Conclusion Glossary Notes References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Objectivity
Book SynopsisWhat do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal ?know-how? or ?objective facts?? Can science claim special authority based on the objectivity of its methods? Are our ethical decisions always better when we strive to be impartial and unbiased? Why should we value objectivity, and is it achievable anyway? These are a few of the thought-provoking questions Guy Axtell asks in this comprehensive new text book, employing examples from the natural and social sciences as well as philosophy. This unique introduction surveys the key issues in a clear and concise way, assessing the nature of objectivity and value of the demand to be impartial decision-makers. Moving beyond the fundamentals, Axtell explores contemporary feminist and social epistemological attempts to ?reconstruct? the concept of objectivity, explains the implications of the so-called science wars for philosophy and the analytical method, and the ethical consequences of these debates. Objectivity is an excellenTrade Review"A solid, wide ranging, knowledgeable study of objectivity, not only in the natural sciences, but also in the social sciences, history, and ethics." Catherine Elgin, Harvard Graduate School of Education "Axtell has written a wide-ranging, intellectually spirited and engaging treatment of this central philosophical topic." Duncan Pritchard, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: A Valuable but Contested Concept Part I: The Intelligible World 1. Objectivity and �First Philosophies� 2. Objectivism, Relativism, and the Cartesian Anxiety Part II: Beyond the �Science Wars� 3. Objectivity in the Natural Sciences 4. Objectivity in the Human and Behavioral Sciences Part III: Critical Reconstructions of Objectivity 5. Objectivity Rehabilitated 6. Ethics and Objectivity Notes References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Empathy
Book SynopsisHow can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour? Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby grasping their thoughts and emotions.Trade Review"This is a terrific introduction to the concept of empathy. Matravers takes us on a first-rate tour of the concept, stopping along the way to trace its historical roots, and to examine the role of empathy in morality and aesthetics. I found myself effortlessly whisked along by Matravers' insightful distinctions and engaging examples. If you are new to the philosophy of empathy, this is the book to read. If you are already an expert, Matravers' clear-headed presentation of the theoretical alternatives will help you take the perspective of your competitors."—Heather Battaly, California State University, Fullerton "Matravers' book provides a very enjoyable, highly nuanced, and historically astute discussion of the concept of empathy and its alleged contribution to understanding other minds, to morality, and to our appreciation of works of art. It constitutes a first-rate introduction to a—philosophically rather confusing—topic."—Karsten Stueber, author of Rediscovering EmpathyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii 1 Introduction: Some Historical Preliminaries 1 2 Some Conceptual Preliminaries 15 3 Empathy as Simulation 25 4 A Priori and A Posteriori Empathy 42 5 Re-enacting the Thoughts of Others 62 6 Empathy and the Emotions 75 7 Empathy and Ethics 104 8 Empathy and Aesthetics 124 9 Afterword 145 Notes 152 Bibliography 156 Index 164
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Cornell University Press Fichte
Book Synopsis"This work is a model of what a philosophical text should be."—Reinhard Lauth "Breazeale's translation is fluent, precise, and perhaps most important of all . . . it is readable. . . . This is an excellent translation by the ranking Fichte scholar...Trade ReviewThe publishing of this volume in English... provides us with a wealth of new material, not just about Fichte's development, but about the essentially Cartesian project that first gave rise to phenomenology in our own century. * International Philosophical Quarterly *Breazeale's translation is fluent, precise, and perhaps most important of all... it is readable.... This is an excellent translation by the ranking Fichte scholar working in English at present, accompanied by a full, useful scholarly apparatus, likely to be of interest to Fichte scholars and all those concerned with the development of German idealism. * Review of Metaphysics *
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Cornell University Press The New Science of Giambattista Vico
Book SynopsisA pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's "New Science" is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory.Trade ReviewThis new edition of the famous Bergin and Fisch translation of Vico's Scienza nuova, originally published in 1948 and reissued in a revised edition in 1968, includes a translation of a piece of Vico’s work called the Practica.... It is a great advantage to have [the "Practic of the New Science"] reprinted with the text of the New Science as it offers some of Vico’s views on the application of his science.... Cornell University Press is to be congratulated for... this new full edition. * Review of Metaphysics *Table of ContentsPrefaceBibliographic NoteAbbreviations and SignsIntroduction by Max Harold FischIDEA OF THE WORKBOOK ONE: ESTABLISHMENT OF PRINCIPLESBOOK TWO: POETIC WISDOMBOOK THREE: DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE HOMERBOOK FOUR: THE COURSE NATIONS RUNBOOK FIVE: THE RECOURSE OF HUMAN INSTITUTIONS WHICH THE NATIONS TAKE WHEN THEY RISE AGAINCONCLUSION OF THE WORKAppendix: "Practic of the New Science"Index of Names
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Cornell University Press On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians
Book SynopsisA treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.Trade ReviewThis work gives significant insight into the early thoughts of one of the first truly modern thinkers in Western intellectual tradition. Palmer's excellent introduction illustrates its historical significance by placing it in a wider context. * Library Journal *Until now, the Latin treatise in which Vico first set forth his theory of knowledge and of metaphysics, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, has never had a complete rendering into English. Lucia Palmer in this volume has provided a welcome translation not only of the treatise, but also of a series of exchanges concerning it (1711–12) between Vico and the Giornale de' letterati d'Italia. It contains the fullest statement of Vico's principle that the true and the made are interchangeable. * Seventeenth-Century News *
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Cornell University Press God and Other Minds
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Cornell University Press On the Study Methods of Our Time
Book SynopsisOn the Study Methods of Our Time remains a key text for anyone interested in the development''s of Vico''s thought and serves as a concise introduction to his work. Scholars and students in such disciplines as the history of philosophy, intellectual history, literary theory, rhetoric, and the history and philosophy of education will find this volume helpful and fascinating. Giambattista Vico''s first original work of philosophy, On the Study Methods of Our Time (1708–9) takes up the contemporary quarrel between the ancients and the moderns and provides a highly interesting statement of the nature of humanistic education. This edition makes available again Elio Gianturco''s superb 1965 English translation of a work generally regarded as the earliest statement by Vico of the fundamentals of his position.An important contribution to the development of the scientism-versus-humanism debate over the comparative merits of classical and mTable of ContentsPreface by Donald Phillip Verene Translator's Introduction by Elio GianturcoChronology of Vico's Principal Writings Note on the TextON THE STUDY METHODS OF OUR TIME I. Subject of the present discourse: the comparison, not of the various branches of learning, but of the study methods of our time and of antiquity. What factors make up every method of study? Distribution of the topics to be discussed, new instruments of the sciences. New aids to studies. Which is, today, the aim of our studies?II. Advantages of our study methods that derive from the instruments used by modern sciences. Advantages of philosophical criticism. Analysis. Introduction of the geometrical method into physics; of chemistry into medicine. Pharmaceutical chemistry. The introduction of chemistry into physics, and of mechanics into medicine. The microscope. The telescope. The mariner's compass. Introduction of modern geometry and physics into mechanics. Advantages accruing to us from the use of new devices: reduction to theoretical precepts of matters pertaining to human discretion in the conduct of life. Masterpieces of art. Printing. Universities. Advantages. deriving from the aim we have in view in our studiesIII. Drawbacks of modern criticism. Criticism injurious to prudence. Criticism an obstacle to eloquence: it hinders the arts, which thrive on imagination, memory, or both. How the ancients obviated the drawbacks of modern criticism. Modern neglect of topics, i.e., the art of forms of arguments employed in probable reasoning, to the benefit of criticism. Drawbacks of this neglect. How the disadvantages inherent in philosophical criticism may be avoided.IV. Drawbacks caused by the introduction of the geometrical method into physics. It kills the desire to explore nature further. How we can study physics as philosophers, namely, as Christian philosophers. The use of the geometrical method impairs the faculty to express oneself tastefullv and with acuteness. It forms an obstacle to free and ample utterance. It generates a sluggish diction, to be avoided as much as possible in eloquence. How its drawbacks may be obviated.V. Analysis. It may be useless to mechanics. How the disadvantages of analysis can be avoided.VI. Drawbacks of our modern method of studying and practicing medicine. How to remove them.VII. Disadvantages of our modern study methods in the fields of ethics, civil doctrine, and eloquence, from the viewpoint of the purpose at which we aim. Civil doctrine. Eloquence. Civil doctrine and eloquence again. How the drawbacks of our study methods may be remedied in regard to the guiding principles of the conduct of life, and in the domain of eloquence.VIII. Poetry. Under what conditions the modern critical procedure is useful to poetry. Suitability of the geometrical method to poetry. "Ideal" or "universal" truth is the proper guiding principle of poetry. Study of modern physics is conducive to poetry.IX. Christian TheologyX. Disadvantages of preceptive handbooks framing rules on matters that pertain to the practical conduct of life. How to eliminate these disadvantages.XI. The practice and study of law. Greek jurisprudence. Roman jurisprudence. Jurisprudence of the free Roman republic. Jurisprudence under the Emperors, prior to Hadrian. Jurisp1-udence under Hadrian. Under Constantine. Advantages and drawbacks of the study of law. First advantage and first drawback; second advantage, second drawback; third advantage, third drawback; fourth advantage, fourth drawback; fifth advantage, fifth drawback; sixth advantage, sixth drawback tentatively expressed. Advantage of the jurisprudential method of Accursius and of his disciples. Its drawbacks: first and second. How disadvantages in the study of law may be avoided.XII. 70 Masterpieces of art. What drawbacks their existence produces. How these drawbacks may be got rid of.XIII. Typographical characters. The disadvantages of printing.' How they may be overcome.XIV. Universities. Their drawbacks; how they may be remedied.XV. Conclusion.Appendix: The Academies and the Relation between Philosophy and Eloquence - Translated by Donald Phillip Verene
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MB - Cornell University Press Vicos Science of Imagination
Book SynopsisA full interpretation of Giambattista Vico's thought, based primarily on his major work, the New Science, and on his earlier Latin writings.Trade ReviewNo mere short notice can do justice to this indispensable guide to Vico's thought. It rescues him from his comparative neglect in histories of modern Western philosophy and emphasizes his seminal if muffled contribution to our understanding of the human mind and the history of culture. Departing from the conventional relegation of Vico to cyclical philosophy of history, the author highlights Vico's role as rhetorician in a philosophy for which rhetoric is no mere embellishment or reflection of truths previously produced by the rational intellect, but is the very source of human knowledge. * Religious Studies Review *The first book-length study in English to allow the genius that is Vico to come forth. * Philosophy and Rhetoric *Verene's sympathetic study is a useful contribution to the understanding of this often misconceived and still very provocative thinker. * Review of Metaphysics *
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University of Toronto Press Foundations of Religious Tolerance
Book SynopsisReligious intolerance is very old and widespread – a phenomenon of a highly distinctive nature which defies reduction to a simpler kind of vice. Methods of achieving religious tolerance have long been in dispute because there is much confusion about its nature.In this book, Professor Newman attempts to clarify the concept of religious tolerance in a way that other recent philosophical studies have clarified such concepts as justice, freedom, and equality. While there is a great deal of literature on theological, psychological, sociological, and political aspects of the problem, little has been said about the more fundamental ethical and epistemological issues that arise from philosophical reflection on religious competition and conflict.Newman addresses such questions as: How does religious intolerance differ from religious prejudice? Does being tolerant require commitment to relativism, pluralism, secularism, or universalism? Can a State live up to its promise to allow
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Stanford University Press The Idea of Form
Book SynopsisAgainst the assumption that aesthetic form relates to a harmonious arrangement of parts into a beautiful whole, this book argues that reason is the real theme of the Critique of Judgment as of the two earlier Critiques. Since aesthetic judgment of the beautiful becomes possible only when the mind is confronted with things of nature, for which no determined concepts of understanding are available, aesthetic judgment is involved in an epistemological or, rather, para-epistemological task. The predicate beautiful indicates that something has minimal form and is cognizable. This book explores this concept of form, in particular the role of presentation (Darstellung) in what Kant refers to as mere form, which involves not only the understanding, but also reason as the faculty of ideas. Such a notion of form reveals why the beautiful can be related to the morally good. On the basis of this reinterpreted concept of form, most major concepts and themes of the Trade Review"The book reads very well and does a wonderful job of unfolding and disentangling Kant's dense and very complex arguments. In addition to philosophers, it will be of interest to those working in literary criticism, art theory, and political theory." -Dennis Schmidt,Villanova UniversityTable of ContentsOne principle more; transcendentality, in play; on mere form; presenting the maximum; absolutely great; interest and disinterest; the arts, in the nude; hypotyposis.
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Stanford University Press On Historicizing Epistemology
Book SynopsisEpistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians of science alike contributed their share to what this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities. Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all their diversity take shape and change over time. Trade Review"Throughout the book, Rheinberger traces the themes of historical contingency, the role of technology, and the plurality of the sciences. These themes are well familiar from Rheinberger's own version of historical epistemology as presented in Towards a History of Epistemic Things. On Historicizing Epistemology thus gives us a helpful overview over those thinkers and positions that are central for Rheinberger's own systematic thinking."—Katherina Kinzel, Metascience"Rheinberger's ability to move between the historical and the contemporary, drawing upon a vast literature from philosophy, history and anthropology to deal with problems of knowledge—past and present—is deeply impressive . . . One of the book's strengths is the way Rheinberger is able to cultivate an argument that is clear, tightly focused, approachable and analytically unwavering."—Todd Meyers, British Journal of the History of Science"On Historicizing Epistemology is an elegantly written, lucid introduction to the problems that are at stake in the history of science. Rheinberger has an admirable talent in presenting the most complex epistemological questions without undue simplifications to any educated reader. This book will have an immense impact on the all-too-solidified ideologies of many scientists."—Rainer Nägele, Yale University"In this small book, Rheinberger proposes the highly interesting thesis that the history of the discipline of the history of science has been animated, above all, by an inquiry into the historical dimension of knowledge and of scientific inquiry. On Historicizing Epistemology is a wonderful introduction to the history of the sciences, but also to the conception of a 'historical epistemology,' which is Rheinberger's most valuable contribution to the development and rethinking of the discipline."—Rodolphe Gasche,State University of New York at Buffalo
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Stanford University Press What We Mean by Experience
Book SynopsisThis book explores how theories of experience reflect the tension between our understanding of ourselves as language-users who produce culture and our understanding of ourselves as information-processing animals who respond to stimuli.Trade Review"In this engaging and highly readable book, Marianne Janack asks us to think about experience in a new and original way. She forges new connections across diverse philosophical and other scholarly positions, each time bringing the reader back to different ways of considering experience." -- Lorraine Code * York University *
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Duke University Press Gendered Agents
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction / Silvestra Mariniello 1 1. Transgressing Representation: Women's Ways Against Institutional Knowledge Responsibility / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 19 The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date / Hortense J. Spillers 67 The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics / Nancy Fraser 123 Veiled Threats: Malek Alloula's Colonial Harem / Laura Rice 144 2. Undoing Discursive Constructions: Alternative Rhetorical Strategies Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 161 America, "Fat," the Fetus / Lauren Berlant 192 Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman 245 "The Most Suffering Class": Gender, Class, and Consciousness in Pre-Marxist France / Margaret Cohen 279 Brava! And Farewell to Greatheart / Judith Wilt 306 3. The Politics of Allegory: A New Understanding of Agency Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance / Doris Sommer 325 Blanchot's Au moment voulu: Woman as the Eternally Recurring Figure of Writing / Larysa Mykyta 349 Wuthering Heights: At the Threshold of Interpretation / Carol Jacobs 371 The Geography of Enunciation: Hysterical Pastiche in Kathy Acker's Fiction / Karen Brennan 396 Index 423
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Duke University Press Europes Indians
Book SynopsisA historical and philosophical argument that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self-other is a product of modernity.Trade Review“’To suggest that history can be unmade’ might be a light undertaking were it really just a suggestion. In Vanita Seth’s exciting work of comparative political theory, the suggestion is not merely made but shown to be a real possibility given her meticulous, complex, and perceptive reading of the production of racial difference over roughly four hundred years of European thought.” - Mindy Peden, Theory and Event“Vanita Seth’s Europe’s Indians is an intellectual history of the highest order. . . . Europe’s Indians is a sophisticated and intellectually courageous work that significantly contributes to the intellectual history of Europe’s encounter with the rest of the world. . . . [S]cholars of European thought and colonial encounters must give this work serious consideration for its sophisticated and original analysis.” - Charles V. Reed, Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians“Seth has synthesized an impressive range of materials to generate a wide-ranging, compelling, and important analysis.” - Kevin Bruyneel, Perspectives on Politics“Seth provides intriguing material for scholars studying European ways of thinking about difference. She puts her finger on a fundamental conundrum within the historiography of European race: how can all within a nation,a continent, or any other group whose members seem to share a physical quality be alike despite myriad ostensible differences, while other peoples with an equal share of myriad differences are perceived as so fundamentally different?” - Joshua Goode, American Historical Review“Seth’s knowledge of the literatures of postmodernism and postcolonialism is comprehensive and illuminating, and her diverse readings of historical texts, myths, legends and systems of thought and reasoning provides innumerable insights into the shifts in European bodies of knowledge.” - Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World“In this original and exciting work, Vanita Seth shows how European ways of knowing changed and how as they changed, certain ‘truths’ were established, verified, habituated, and naturalized, so that the previous way of knowing was occluded and rendered unthinkable. Moving from a history of science into political theory, shifting from a European philosophical tradition into questions of postcolonialism, and historically specifying in new ways the question of race as a very modern invention, Seth makes an enormous contribution.”—Pal Ahluwalia, author of Out of Africa: Post-structuralism’s Colonial Roots“Vanita Seth offers both a novel understanding of how difference is represented in early and high modern European political thought and a compelling new way to theorize difference. This is politically motivated scholarship at its finest—probing, learned, meticulous, interdisciplinary, imaginative and fearlessly critical.”—Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley“’To suggest that history can be unmade’ might be a light undertaking were it really just a suggestion. In Vanita Seth’s exciting work of comparative political theory, the suggestion is not merely made but shown to be a real possibility given her meticulous, complex, and perceptive reading of the production of racial difference over roughly four hundred years of European thought.” -- Mindy Peden * Theory & Event *“Seth has synthesized an impressive range of materials to generate a wide-ranging, compelling, and important analysis.” -- Kevin Bruyneel * Perspectives on Politics *“Seth provides intriguing material for scholars studying European ways of thinking about difference. She puts her finger on a fundamental conundrum within the historiography of European race: how can all within a nation,a continent, or any other group whose members seem to share a physical quality be alike despite myriad ostensible differences, while other peoples with an equal share of myriad differences are perceived as so fundamentally different?” -- Joshua Goode * American Historical Review *“Seth’s knowledge of the literatures of postmodernism and postcolonialism is comprehensive and illuminating, and her diverse readings of historical texts, myths, legends and systems of thought and reasoning provides innumerable insights into the shifts in European bodies of knowledge.” * Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World *“Vanita Seth’s Europe’s Indians is an intellectual history of the highest order. . . . Europe’s Indians is a sophisticated and intellectually courageous work that significantly contributes to the intellectual history of Europe’s encounter with the rest of the world. . . . [S]cholars of European thought and colonial encounters must give this work serious consideration for its sophisticated and original analysis.” -- Charles V. Reed * Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Self and Similitude: Renaissance Representations of the New World 19 2. "Constructing" Individuals and "Creating" History: Subjectivity in Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau 61 3. Traditions of History: Mapping India's Past 119 4. Of Monsters and Man: The Peculiar History of Race 173 Epilogue 227 Notes 233 Bibliography 259 Index 279
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University of Pittsburgh Press Aporetics
Book SynopsisThe word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. This title defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. It provides an instructive perspective on the many diverse issues that can arise from imperfect information and cognitive dissonance.
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University of Pittsburgh Press World ObservedThe World Conceived The
Book SynopsisProvides an innovative analysis of the nature and interplay of observation and conceptualization. Radder shows that observation is always conceptually interpreted, and concepts affect the way observational processes are conducted in the first place.
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Fordham University Press The Philosophy of Knowledge
Book SynopsisThis volume includes a reworking of the landmark essay "Introduction to the Study of Practical Wisdom," and new material drawn from notes and schemata.
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Fordham University Press Readings in Epistemology
Book SynopsisGives a concise summary of the Enlightenment period, demonstrating how and why Rationalism and Empiricism came about, and challenges the reader not to simply note the points of disparity between the two schools, but to notice the similarities of their common assumptions - both substantive and methodological.
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Fordham University Press The Cosmological Argument
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive, critical study of the oldest and most famous argument for the existence of God: the Cosmological Argument. Professor Rowe examines and interprets historically significant versions of the argument from Aquinas to Samuel Clarke and explores the major objections that have been advances against it.Trade Review"A clear and excellent treatment ...one of the best discussions to date... a must." -Choice
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Fordham University Press The New Wounded
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the issue of trauma and psychic wounds to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology. In so doing, it reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather appears as its very locus. A philosophical approach of the “new wounded” (brain lesion patients) forms the matter of the confrontation.Trade Review"The first of the 'old wounded,' hysterics suffering from reminiscences, were Freud's co-conspirators in the invention of psychoanalysis. Not only were they its earliest patients and critics; their malady formed the very stuff of psychoanalysis. Malabou identifies a more recent class of 'new wounded'-Alzheimer's patient, autistic children, concentration camp survivors, victims of rape, bombing, natural disasters and brain tumors-who, radically severed from their own past, are devoid not only of reminiscences but of meaning itself. Their maladies, she claims, evacuate the core concepts of psychoanalysis, its original stuff. Friends and foes of Freud's science will be riveted by Malabou's intelligent argument whose destructive thrust produces not merely rubble and dust, more a foam of fascinating new concepts-including cerebrality and destructive plasticity-and strong readings of Freudian texts." -- -Joan Copjec University at Buffalo, SUNY "Malabou draws upon the most current neurological research and contemporary psychoanalytic works, and applies them to a careful, penetrating and convincing reading of Freud's primary texts, in order to fashion her original interpretation." -- -Clayton Crockett University of Central Arkansas What has happened when subjectivity is utterly changed by brain damage? What are the links of war, trauma, and loss of affect? In The New Wounded Catherine Malabou brilliantly shows how 'destructive plasticity' is the key concept for understanding our 'new economy of pain.' Highly recommended for everyone in the fields she so deftly examines: philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurology." -- -John Protevi Louisiana State UniversityTable of ContentsPreamble Introduction Part One: The Neurological Subordination of Sexuality Introduction: The "New Maps" of Causality 1. Cerebral Auto-Affection 2. Brain Wounds: From the Neurological Novel to the Theater of Absence 3. Identity Without Precedent 4. Psychoanalytic Objection: Can There Be Destruction Without a Drive of Destruction? Part Two: The Neutralization of Cerebrality Introduction: Freud and Preexisting Fault Lines 5. What Is a Psychic Event? 6. The "Libido Theory" and the Otherness of the Sexual to Itself: Traumatic Neurosis and War Neurosis in Question 7. Separation, Death, the Thing, Freud, Lacan, and the Missed Encounter 8. Neurological Objection: Rehabilitating the Event Part Three: On the Beyond of the Pleasure Principle--That it Exists Introduction: Remission at the Risk of Forgetting the Worst 9. The Equivocity of Reparation: From Elasticity to Resilience 10. Toward a Plasticity of the Compulsion to Repeat 11. The Subject of the Accident Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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Fordham University Press Sometimes Always True
Book SynopsisAims to resolve three connected problems central to philosophical thought. This book argues that while this kind of contradiction is inescapable, it is so thoroughgoing that, like the Liar's Paradox, it cancels its own meaning.Trade Review"Sometimes Always Never is an exceptionally well-written and clear argument about why logical contradictions can be both permissible and unavoidable, and about how experiencing such a contradiction can help us simultaneously reaffirm the rightness of our beliefs while also recognizing that there may be other beliefs with an equally good claim to being right. Barris persuasively argues that this is neither nonsense nor merely playing with words, and shows how this experience of recognizing the relative correctness of one's views is both very common and extremely important." -- -Matthew Moore Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo "Jeremy Barris analyzes the philosophical paradoxes of commitment and belief with a view to extracting their general structure and offering real ideas about how to live with them, as we must in order to live together successfully in contemporary societies. This is a topical and timely analysis that moves beyond considering the philosophical problems of pluralism and relativism in the abstract to show how we might begin to deal with them here and now." -- -Paul Livingston University of New Mexico "A remarkably ambitious, challenging and thoroughly engaging book. Barris's mastery of a great variety of writings, including literary texts, takes the reader on a fascinating journey through metaphysics, humor, dreams, politics and epistemology. Although he deals with these themes on the highest level, the read never turns into a rough ride. Arguing with stunning clarity, Barris stays solidly at the wheel and brings his readers along in a fearless and cogent narrative, rife with innovative and original thought." -- -Irene Klaver University of North Texas "Students of philosophy and its history have long wondered how any useful knowledge can be obtained in a field where there is little but disagreement and discord. Jeremy Barris's Sometimes Always True proposes a novel, insightful, and widely informed response to this conundrum." -- -Nicholas Rescher University of PittsburghTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Sometimes Always True 1 1. Comparing Different Cultural or Theoretical Frameworks: Davidson, Rorty, and the Nature of Truth 2. An Internal Connection between Logic and Rhetoric between Frameworks, and a Legitimate Foundation for Knowledge 3. Pluralism, Legitimate Self-Contradiction, and a Proposed Solution to Some Shared Fundamental Problems of Political and Mainstream Epistemology 4. The Logic of Genuine Political Pluralism and Oscar Wilde's Artificiality of Wit and Style 5. Foucault's Pluralism and the Possibility of Truth and of Ideology Critique 6. How to Be Properly Unnatural: The Metaphysics of Heterosexual Normativity and the Importance of the Concepts of Essence and Nature for Pluralism 7. The Necessary Inconclusiveness of Heideggerian Interpretation of Metaphysics and the Undecided Nature of Essential or Logical Connection 8. The Formal Structure of Metaphysics and The Importance of Being Earnest 9. The Logical Structure of Dreams and Their Relation to Reality Coda: Overviews References Index
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Fordham University Press Shakespeare as a Way of Life Skeptical Practice
Book SynopsisShakespeare is worth reading, this book argues, because his works help us to make epistemological weakness into a way of life. Kuzner shows how his works offer a means for coming to terms with basic uncertainties about freedom, the world’s abundance, and the demands of love and social life.Trade Review"This is broad and provocative thinking of the first order that promises to show how Shakespeare engages what remain some of the deepest questions concerning the human condition. Throughout the book, Kuzner reads Renaissance humanism, ethics, epistemology and theology in relation to their modern responses and redirections, reinvigorating historical study and theoretical discourse alike through the kinds of astute and creative cross-pollination that have made him such a distinctive voice on the scene of Renaissance studies." -- -Julia Reinhard Lupton University of California, Irvine "Shakespeare as a Way of Life is a thoughtful, meditative, beautifully written book that will interest readers of all critical stripes, whether their bent is toward history, theory, or close reading. Kuzner gives us poised and nuanced readings of his key Shakespearean works. Most of all, he makes a brilliant, original case for Shakespeare's carving out a new kind of skepticism, one that is his own and not classifiable as purely Pyrrhonian or Montaignean or proto-Cartesian." -- -Katherine Eggert University of Colorado, BoulderTable of Contents1. Introduction: Shakespeare's Skeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness 2. Ciceronian Skepticism and the Mind-Body Problem in Lucrece 3. "It stops me here": Love and Self-Control in Othello 4. The Winter's Tale: Faith in Law and the Law of Faith 5. Doubtful Freedom in The Tempest 6. Looking Two Ways at Once in Timon of Athens Epilogue: Shakespeare as a Way of Life Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Hawai'i Press Everything Ancient Was Once New Indigenous
Book SynopsisExplores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Knaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawaii's shores. It is both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection.
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MP-MQU Marquette University The Problem of the Criterion Aquinas Lecture 38
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Zone Books A Vital Rationalist
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Metaphysics and Epistemology
Book SynopsisMetaphysics and Epistemology: A Guided Anthology presents a comprehensive introductory overview of key themes, thinkers, and texts in metaphysics and epistemology. Presents a wide-ranging collection of carefully excerpted readings on metaphysics and epistemology Blends classic and contemporary works to reveal the historical development and present directions in the fields of metaphysics and epistemology Provides succinct, insightful commentaryto introduce the essence of eachselection at the beginning of chapters which also serve to inter-link the selected writings Table of ContentsSource Acknowledgments x Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Part I The Philosophical Image 1 1 Life and the Search for Philosophical Knowledge 3 Plato, Republic 2 Philosophical Questioning 14 Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy 3 Philosophy and Fundamental Images 20 Wilfrid Sellars, “Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man” 4 Philosophy as the Analyzing of Key Concepts 27 P.F. Strawson, Analysis and Metaphysics 5 Philosophy as Explaining Underlying Possibilities 33 Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations Part II Metaphysics: Philosophical Images of Being 41 How Is the World at all Physical? 43 6 How Real Are Physical Objects? 43 Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy 7 Are Physical Objects Never Quite as They Appear To Be? 48 John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 8 Are Physical Objects Really Only Objects of Thought? 54 George Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge 9 Is Even the Mind Physical? 60 D.M. Armstrong, “The Causal Theory of the Mind” 10 Is the Physical World All There Is? 66 Frank Jackson, “Epiphenomenal Qualia” How Does the World Function? 74 11 Is Causation Only a Kind of Regularity? 74 David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 12 Is Causation Something Singular and Unanalyzable? 81 G.E.M. Anscombe, “Causation and Determination” How Do Things Ever Have Qualities? 88 13 How Can Individual Things Have Repeatable Qualities? 88 Plato, Parmenides 14 How Can Individual Things Not Have Repeatable Qualities? 95 D.M. Armstrong, Nominalism and Realism How Are There Any Truths? 102 15 Do Facts Make True Whatever Is True? 102 Bertrand Russell, “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism” 16 Are There Social Facts? 107 John Searle, Mind, Language and Society 17 Is There Only Personally Decided Truth? 114 Plato, Theaetetus How Is There a World At All? 120 18 Has the World Been Designed by God? 120 David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 19 Is God’s Existence Knowable Purely Conceptually? 131 St. Anselm, Proslogion 20 Has This World Been Actualized by God from Among All Possible Worlds? 145 G.W. Leibniz, Monadology 21 Does This World Exist Because It Has Value Independently of God? 149 Nicholas Rescher, Nature and Understanding 22 Can Something Have Value in Itself? 158 Plato, Euthyphro How Are Persons Persons? 161 23 Is Each Person a Union of Mind and Body? 161 René Descartes, “Meditation VI” 24 Is Self-Consciousness what Constitutes a Person? 164 John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 25 How Strictly Does Self-Consciousness Constitute a Person? 170 Roderick M. Chisholm, “Identity through Time” 26 Are Persons Constituted with Strict Identity At All? 177 Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons 27 Are We Animals? 187 Eric T. Olson, “An Argument for Animalism” How Do People Ever Have Free Will and Moral Responsibility? 196 28 Is There No Possibility of Acting Differently To How One Will in Fact Act? 196 Aristotle, De Interpretatione 29 Could Our Being Entirely Caused Coexist with Our Acting Freely? 200 David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 30 Would Being Entirely Caused Undermine Our Personally Constitutive Emotions? 206 P.F. Strawson, “Freedom and Resentment” 31 Is a Person Morally Responsible Only for Actions Performed Freely? 213 Harry G. Frankfurt, “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility” 32 Is Moral Responsibility for a Good Action Different to Moral Responsibility for a Bad Action? 218 Susan Wolf, “Asymmetrical Freedom” How Could a Person Be Harmed by Being Dead? 224 33 Is It Impossible To Be Harmed by Being Dead? 224 Epicurus, “Letter to Menoeceus” 34 Is It Impossible To Be Harmed by Being Dead at a Particular Time? 226 Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 35 Would Immortality Be Humanly Possible and Desirable? 229 Bernard Williams, “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality” 36 Can a Person be Deprived of Benefits by Being Dead? 236 Fred Feldman, Confrontations with the Reaper Further Readings for Part II 240 Part III Epistemology: Philosophical Images of Knowing 245 Can We Understand What It Is to Know? 247 37 Is Knowledge a Supported True Belief? 247 Plato, Meno 38 When Should a Belief be Supported by Evidence? 251 W.K. Clifford, “The Ethics of Belief ” 39 Is Knowledge a Kind of Objective Certainty? 256 A.J. Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge 40 Are All Fallibly Supported True Beliefs Instances of Knowledge? 260 Edmund L. Gettier, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” 41 Must a True Belief Arise Aptly, if it is to be Knowledge? 264 Alvin I. Goldman, “A Causal Theory of Knowing” 42 Must a True Belief Arise Reliably, if it is to be Knowledge? 268 Alvin I. Goldman, “Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge” 43 Where is the Value in Knowing? 273 Catherine Z. Elgin, “The Epistemic Efficacy of Stupidity” 44 Is Knowledge Always a Virtuously Derived True Belief? 279 Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, Virtues of the Mind Can We Ever Know Just through Observation? 287 45 Is All Knowledge Ultimately Observational? 287 David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 46 Is There a Problem of Not Knowing that One Is Not Dreaming? 292 René Descartes, “Meditation I” 47 What Is It Really to be Seeing Something? 295 David Lewis, “Veridical Hallucination and Prosthetic Vision” 48 Is There a Possibility of Being a Mere and Unknowing Brain in a Vat? 302 Hilary Putnam, Reason, Truth and History 49 Is It Possible to Observe Directly the Objective World? 311 John McDowell, “The Disjunctive Conception of Experience as Material for a Transcendental Argument” Can We Ever Know Innately? 317 50 Is It Possible to Know Innately Some Geometrical or Mathematical Truths? 317 Plato, Meno 51 Is There No Innate Knowledge At All? 325 John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Can We Ever Know Just through Reflection? 335 52 Is All Knowledge Ultimately Reflective? 335 René Descartes, Discourse on Method 53 Can Reflective Knowledge Be Substantive and Informative? 340 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason 54 Is All Apparently Reflective Knowledge Ultimately Observational? 349 John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic 55 Is Scientific Reflection Our Best Model for Understanding Reflection? 355 C.S. Peirce, “Some Consequences of Four Incapacities” and “How To Make Our Ideas Clear” 56 Are Some Necessities Known through Observation, Not Reflection? 363 Saul A. Kripke, Naming and Necessity Can We Know in Other Fundamental Ways? 369 57 Is Knowing-How a Distinct Way of Knowing? 369 Gilbert Ryle, “Knowing How and Knowing That” 58 Is Knowing One’s Intention-in-Action a Distinct Way of Knowing? 376 G.E.M. Anscombe, Intention 59 Is Knowing via What Others Say or Write a Distinct Way of Knowing? 383 Jennifer Lackey, “Knowing from Testimony” 60 Is Knowing through Memory a Distinct Way of Knowing? 391 Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind Can We Fundamentally Fail Ever To Know? 399 61 Are None of our Beliefs More Justifiable than Others? 399 Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism 62 Are None of Our Beliefs Immune from Doubt? 407 René Descartes, “Meditation I” 63 Are We Unable Ever To Extrapolate Justifiedly Beyond Our Observations? 410 David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Can Skeptical Arguments Be Escaped? 417 64 Can We Know at Least Our Conscious Mental Lives? 417 René Descartes, “Meditation II” 65 Can We Know Some Fundamental Principles by Common Sense? 422 Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man 66 Do We Know a Lot, but Always Fallibly? 434 Karl R. Popper, “On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance” 67 Is It Possible to have Knowledge even when Not Knowing that One Is Not a Brain in a Vat? 444 Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations Further Readings for Part III 452
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rationality Through Reasoning
Book SynopsisRationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning that differs significantly from much existing philosophical thinking.Trade Review"Rationality Through Reasoning is clearly written, and it contains many discussions with other experts in this genre of analytic philosophy, such as Gilbert Harman, Niko Kolodny, and Derek Parfit, to whom the book is dedicated." (Ethical Perspectives, 1 March 2014)Table of ContentsPreface xi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation 1 1.2 This book 4 Notes 6 2 Ought 8 2.1 The meaning of ‘ought’ 8 2.2 Normative and non-normative oughts 9 2.3 Owned and unowned oughts 12 2.4 Qualified and unqualified oughts 25 Notes 29 3 Objective, Subjective and Prospective Oughts 31 3.1 Sidgwick’s View 31 3.2 The need to decide 34 3.3 Objective and prospective oughts 36 3.4 Valuing prospects 41 3.5 Summary 45 Notes 45 4 Reasons 46 4.1 Introduction and preliminaries 46 4.2 Pro toto reasons 49 4.3 Pro tanto reasons 51 4.4 Most reason 62 4.5 Ownership of reasons 65 5 Responding to Reasons 71 5.1 Rationality and responding to reasons 71 5.2 The quick objection 74 5.3 Attitudinal reasons 75 5.4 Sufficiency of reasons 82 Notes 87 6 Responding to Reason-Beliefs 88 6.1 The Enkratic Condition 88 6.2 Meeting your own standards 91 6.3 Responding correctly to P-beliefs 101 6.4 Conclusion 107 Notes 108 7 Requirements 109 7.1 Two sorts of requirement 109 7.2 Property requirements 110 7.3 Source requirements 116 7.4 Logic for requirements? 119 7.5 Ought 126 Notes 129 8 Conditional Requirements 132 8.1 Application and content 132 8.2 Conditional requirements of rationality 134 Notes 146 Appendix to Chapter 8 148 9 Synchronic Rationality 149 9.1 Introduction and method 149 9.2 Consistency 154 9.3 Deduction 157 9.4 Instrumental Rationality 159 9.5 Enkrasia 170 9.6 Bayesian requirements 175 Notes 175 10 Diachronic Rationality 177 10.1 Persistence of Intention 177 10.2 The rationality of doing as you decide 181 10.3 Diachronic requirements on beliefs 185 Notes 69 10.4 Basing prohibitions and basing permissions 186 Notes 191 11 Rationality and Normativity 192 11.1 The Normative Question 192 11.2 More on rationality and reasons 193 11.3 Is rationality derivatively normative? 197 11.4 Is rationality non-derivatively normative? 204 Notes 205 12 Higher-Order Reasoning 206 12.1 The reasoning process 206 12.2 Reasoning through an intention 210 12.3 Reasoning with judgement-sensitive attitudes 216 12.4 One more point 219 Notes 220 13 First-Order Reasoning 221 13.1 The reasoning process 221 13.2 Necessary and sufficient conditions for reasoning 225 13.3 Operating on contents 231 13.4 Reasoning as activity 235 13.5 Reasoning at the first order 242 13.6 The direction of reasoning 243 13.7 Correct belief reasoning 246 Notes 248 14 Practical Reasoning 250 14.1 Reasoning with attitudes other than beliefs 250 14.2 Correctness 255 14.3 Choosing a means 261 14.4 Hypothesizing 264 Notes 265 15 Explicit Reasoning 267 15.1 Markers 267 15.2 Bayesian and expressivist reasoning 275 15.3 Reasoning with absences 278 15.4 Theoretical and practical reasoning 281 15.5 Intention reasoning with other markers 285 Notes 286 16 Enkratic Reasoning 288 16.1 Enkratic reasoning 288 16.2 Humean objections 291 16.3 Conclusion 294 Notes 294 Bibliography 295 Index 303
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisA Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical hermeneutics.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Contemporary Epistemology
Book SynopsisA rigorous, authoritative new anthology which brings together some of the most significant contemporary scholarship on the theory of knowledge Carefully-calibrated and judiciously-curated, this strong and contemporary new anthology builds upon Epistemology: An Anthology, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2008) by drawing a concise and well-balanced selection of higher-level readings from a large, diverse, and evolving body of research. Includes 17 readings that represent a broad and vital part of contemporary epistemology, including articles by female philosophers and emerging thought leaders Organized into seven thoughtful and distinct sections, including virtue epistemology, practical reasons for belief, and epistemic dysfunctions among others Designed to sit alongside the highly-successful anthology of canonical essays, Epistemology: An Anthology, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2008) Edited by a distinguished edTable of ContentsPreface vii Part I The Ethics of Belief 1 1 Deontological Desiderata 3William Alston 2 Voluntary Belief and Epistemic Evaluation 17Richard Feldman Part II Practical Reasons for Belief ? 29 3 The Wrong Kind of Reason 31Pamela Hieronymi 4 No Exception for Belief 44Susanna Rinard 5 Promising Against the Evidence 58Berislav Marušic Part III Reliance 75 6 Evidentialism and Pragmatic Constraints on Outright Belief 77Dorit Ganson 7 Alief and Belief 91Tamar Gendler 8 Can It Be Rational to Have Faith? 110Lara Buchak 9 Assertion and Practical Reasoning: Common or Divergent Epistemic Standards? 126Jessica Brown Part IV Epistemic Dysfunctions 147 10 Testimonial Injustice 149Miranda Fricker 11 Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification 164Susanna Siegel Part V Virtue Epistemology 179 12 The Search for the Source of Epistemic Good 181Linda Zagzebski 13 Why We Don’t Deserve Credit for Everything We Know 192Jennifer Lackey 14 A (Different) Virtue Epistemology 205John Greco 15 Knowledge and Justification 220Ernest Sosa Part VI Disagreement 229 16 Epistemology of Disagreement: The Good News 231David Christensen 17 The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement 249Thomas Kelly Part VII Permissivism About Belief ? 265 18 Epistemic Permissiveness 267Roger White 19 Permission to Believe: Why Permissivism Is True and What It Tells Us About Irrelevant Influences on Belief 277Miriam Schoenfield Index 296
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