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Love of Knowledge: Foundations, Inquiries, and Paradigms for Transformation by Tarthang Tulku opens with an investigation into "technological knowledge," the patterns of knowing we all rely on, including the all-important distinction between the public and the private realms. The inquiry then shifts to the role of the self as the one who knows. Part Three of the book investigates a way of knowing in which there are no fixed positions, while Part Four...
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Ernest Sosa is the Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
In this book, Ernest Sosa explains the nature of knowledge through an approach originated by him years ago, known as virtue epistemology. Here he provides the first comprehensive account of his views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. On a first level is found the normativity of the apt performance, whose success manifests...
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En este libro se juega, se aprende y esto merece atención. Se pone en juego una idea de la arqueología, no en el marco de un conjunto de métodos que se describen y se nombran, sino que se le sitúa en un campo de visibilidad, en una formación real de objetos de estudio; se apuesta por dar cuenta de una relación entre formación científica y formación técnica por fuera de la historia de las mentalidades; se aprende que las decisiones y las...
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El autor propone una reflexión sobre el conocimiento desde la perspectiva de las humanidades. Concebir el conocimiento, general y científico, como relato y símbolo clave de la cultura occidental permite que, por ejemplo, el amor y la rebeldía se conviertan en pautas interpretativas, y se fortalezca la idea de que a todo proyecto epistemológico subyace un deseo de grandeza que no se puede instrumentalizar del todo. El libro invita a explorar la...
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'Oh, no, not another philosophy book!' After twenty-six centuries of reflecting and writing, what can be said about philosophy that hasn't already been said? This book is different because it is written for students who are not interested in philosophy or who are struggling to understand it. Professor Malikow makes it easy to understand the sophisticated ideas and profound truths of philosophy by his use of everyday language, analogies, examples,...
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"Los huesos de Leibniz" —una brillante actualización del género de la epístola filosófica— constituye no sólo una magnífica introducción a la obra de un pensador muy mal conocido, el genial Leibniz, sino una muy grata lectura que enseña y deleita a la par.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz falleció en Hannover un sábado de noviembre del año 1716, y sus restos —un mes después— depositados en una tumba sin nombre. Tras décadas en el olvido,...
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What is knowledge? What is belief? What is the distinguishing characteristic that differentiates the one from the other? What are their respective roles and what are the effects that arise when their roles are misunderstood, confused, or misapplied? Answers to these questions appeared in a statement published in the Book of Mormon in 1830. Although the relevant passage is often cited, its meaning has remained deciphered, leaving it to languish in...
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Richard Moran is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has been challenged from a number of directions, to the point where many doubt the person bears any distinctive...
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Epistemology: A Short Introduction
Explore the fascinating realm of Epistemology with "Epistemology: A Short Introduction," a concise and accessible guide to the study of knowledge, belief, and justification.
"Epistemology: A Short Introduction" is characterized by its reader-friendly style, avoiding unnecessary jargon while still providing intellectual rigor. The author presents complex ideas in a clear and concise manner, making this book accessible...
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Robert Nozick (1938–2002) was the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. Among his works are Philosophical Explanations and The Examined Life. His Anarchy, State, and Utopia won the National Book Award in 1975.
Repeatedly and successfully, the celebrated Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick has reached out to a broad audience beyond the confines of his discipline, addressing ethical and social problems that matter to every...
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Detailed presentation of American philosopher's pragmatic concept of epistemology, isolation of realms of existents and subsistents. Chapters include "There is No First Principle of Criticism," Dogma and Doubt," "Wayward Scepticism," "Doubts About Self-Consciousness," "Doubts About Change," "Ultimate Scepticism," "Nothing Given Exists," "Some Authorities for This Conclusion," and "The Discovery of Essence."
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Leída las más de las veces desde la estética y, en concreto, desde los aspectos que tanto entusiasmo despertaron en el romanticismo temprano (las categorías de lo bello y lo sublime, la teoría del genio, el papel de la imaginación en la estética, etc.), el problema central de la Crítica del discernimiento desborda, no obstante, el terreno de la filosofía del arte para constituirse en cuestión capital que afecta a la propia unidad de la filosofía...
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Michael N. Forster is professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. His books include Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar (Princeton), Hegel's Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit, and Hegel and Skepticism.
This book puts forward a much-needed reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the Critique of Pure Reason. It is widely recognized that Kant's theoretical philosophy aims...
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El libro "Puntos de vista entre Filosofía y escritura" es el resultado del proyecto de investigación sobre la formación de nuevos investigadores integrantes del Grupo Filosofía, educación y pedagogía. Expone a los investigadores en formación del grupo a un ejercicio problemático de producción, demostración, sustentación y escritura, bien sea como punto de partida o de llegada de investigaciones iniciales y avanzadas o de resultados, en...
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Why do so many people - sometimes even intelligent people - swallow the preposterous claims of religion? G. A. Wells, the leading freethinker of our time, tries to shed light on this puzzle in his entertaining and enormously learned book, Belief and Make-Believe. Professor Wells begins by analyzing the nature of belief. To dispel popular confusions on the relation between words and thoughts, he compares the thinking process of scientists, laymen,...
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An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.
French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) is best known in the English-speaking world for his work on poetics and the literary imagination, but much of his oeuvre is devoted to epistemology and the philosophy of science. Like Thomas Kuhn, whose work he anticipates by three decades, Bachelard examines the revolution...
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La invención filosófica en el silencio del futuro es una continuación activa del encuentro transdisciplinar con el fin de poner en práctica y reconocer nuestras diversas invenciones filosóficas. Buscando describir gestos de invención, estos se vuelven relativamente independientes de sus tradiciones, sin ser su negación. Este método implica la autonomía del pensamiento, cualquiera que sea el contexto nacional o continental, incluso si no logra...
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Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.
In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook...
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Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of many scientific debates, Helen Longino finds that general accounts of scientific methodology cannot support this common belief. Focusing on the notion of evidence, the author argues that a methodology powerful enough to account for theories of any scope...
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This book contains all the famous stories, myths, beliefs, and scientific theories divided according to the continental principle.
Not knowing the meaning of one's existence leads to life becoming like a wreck that the winds of circumstances frantically toss against the rocks of depression and meaninglessness.
Man has always wondered and tried to explain how the world was created and who we are. The interest in the first beginning goes beyond reasonable,...
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