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Philosophy and Neuroscience A Methodological Analysis
This book explores the methodological strategies for linking philosophy and neuroscience concerning the study of the conscious brain. The author...
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Choreography as Embodied Critical Inquiry Embodied Cognition and Creative Movement
In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine...
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Reflections on the Foundations of Probability and Statistics Essays in Honor of Teddy Seidenfeld
This Festschrift celebrates Teddy Seidenfeld and his seminal contributions to philosophy, statistics, probability, game theory and related areas. The... -
God Naturalized Epistemological Reflections on Theistic Belief in light of the New Science of Religion
This volume argues that theistic philosophy should be seen not as an “armchair” enterprise but rather as a critical endeavor to bring philosophy of...
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Applying Reflective Equilibrium Towards the Justification of a Precautionary Principle
This open access book provides the first explicit case study for an application of the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), using it to develop and...
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Powers, Time and Free Will
This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise... -
Wittgenstein's On Certainty: Insight and Method
This book considers the important twentieth century Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his conception of certainty.
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Historical Epistemology and European Philosophy of Science Rethinking Critical Rationalism and Transcendentalism
This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the European tradition of the... -
A Protocol-theoretic Framework for the Logic of Epistemic Norms
This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for...
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Embodied, Extended, Ignorant Minds New Studies on the Nature of Not-Knowing
This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies. Agnotology, the epistemology of ignorance, and, more generally, ignorance... -
Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism Skepticism as a Rationally Ordered Experience
This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive character of skepticism....
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Masters, Slaves and Philosophers Plato, Hegel and Nietzsche on Freedom and the Pursuit of Knowledge
This book examines the relationship between freedom and true knowledge, which is a central part of the hotly debated issue of human freedom.
Is truth...
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Knowledge Production and the Search for Epistemic Liberation in Africa
This book shows the importance of knowledge production using requisite terms and frameworks to the broader scheme of epistemic liberation in Africa.... -
Erkenntnistheorie Eine Einführung
Das Lehrbuch führt voraussetzungsfrei in alle bedeutenden Gebiete der Erkenntnistheorie ein. Es stellt eine Mitte zwischen der zeitgenössischen...
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Essay on Machines in General (1786) Text, Translations and Commentaries. Lazare Carnot's Mechanics - Volume 1
This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics,
mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering...
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Spinoza’s Epistemology through a Geometrical Lens
This book interrogates the ontology of mathematical entities in Spinoza as a basis for addressing a wide range of interpretive issues in Spinoza’s... -
Abduction in Cognition and Action Logical Reasoning, Scientific Inquiry, and Social Practice
This book gathers together novel essays on the state-of-the-art research into the logic and practice of abduction. In many ways, abduction has become...
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Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics
This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics. By providing an overview of the development of empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen...
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Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa
This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed. The contributors, using different...
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Toleranz – was müssen wir aushalten?
Toleranz – eine Haltung, die in westlichen Gesellschaften wie kaum eine andere mit Nachdruck gefordert und mit Vehemenz verteidigt wird. Insbesondere...