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"Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, to understand our origins and the meaning of our lives. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing, he reaches a provocative...
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First published in 1689, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" is British philosopher John Locke's important and influential exposition on the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. Arranged into four books, the first book begins by rejecting the notion of innate ideas proposed by Descartes and proposes instead that humans are born as blank slates. Book two argues that all knowledge is derived from experience and reflection. Locke also...
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Arranged and integrated to reveal epistemology, phenomenology, theory of signs, other major topics. Includes "The Fixation of Beliefs," "How to Make Our Ideas Clear," "The Scientific Attitude and Fallibilism," "Philosophy and the Sciences: A Classification," " The Principles of Phenomenology," " Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs," and "The Criterion of Validity in Reasoning."
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"Reconstruction in Philosophy" by John Dewey is a groundbreaking philosophical work that challenges traditional modes of thinking and calls for a profound reevaluation of philosophical inquiry. In this transformative book, Dewey offers a compelling vision for reconstructing philosophy to better serve the needs and complexities of the modern world. With incisive intellect and deep insight, Dewey argues for a shift away from abstract metaphysical speculations...
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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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Disappointed by the public reception to 'A Treatise of Human Nature', published anonymously between 1739 and 1740, David Hume decided to produce a shorter more polemic version of that work nearly ten years later. That revision, which was published in 1748, would be entitled 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'. Dispensing with much of the extraneous material from the 'Treatise', Hume focuses on his more vital propositions in the 'Enquiry'....
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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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La aparición de anomalías como resultado de un abrumador aumento de los datos debido a la irrupción de innovaciones en los instrumentos tecnológicos de detección produce un aumento drástico de la complejidad necesaria para dar cuenta de los fenómenos de cierta parte de la naturaleza conocidos hasta el momento, incluyendo las novedades inesperadas, y coloca a la teoría vigente en una situación de fragilidad en la que deben realizarse...
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Delineates the knowable from the unknowable in philosophy, science, and theology.
Offering readers much to ponder, Richard H. Jones approaches the "big questions" of philosophy such as the nature of reality, consciousness, free will, the existence of God, and the meaning of life not by weighing the merits of leading arguments in these debates, but instead by questioning the extent to which we are even in a position to answer such questions in the...
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One of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the subject.
In this concise book, one of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the problem of knowledge in Western philosophy. Modern and contemporary accounts of epistemology tend to focus on limited questions of knowledge and skepticism, such as how we can know the external world, other minds, the...
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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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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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In today's busy world people become so preoccupied with their day-to-day existence that they rarely have time to T_H_I_N_K!
I have designed this group of topics as conversation starters and short stories that cause the reader to think. They are meant to be kicked around, argued over, developed, expanded, and speculated upon in an endless game of What if! The modern world is designed so that you don't have to think. There are forces and organizations...
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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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Presents strikingly original and contemporary answers to the most traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political theory.
A work of maximally ambitious scope with a foundation in humility, Entanglements sets out a philosophical system of the sort rarely seen over the past century. In a discipline marked by greater and greater specialization and the narrowing of increasingly insular traditions and approaches,...
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¿Por qué razón, en los últimos dos siglos, la epistemología occidental dominante eliminó de la reflexión el contexto cultural y político de producción y reproducción del conocimiento? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias de esta descontextualización? ¿Son hoy posibles otras epistemologías?
¿Qué consecuencias tiene el racismo en el ámbito de los saberes al degradar como "inferiores" los conocimientos no occidentales y exagerar como "superiores"...