Tag: Epistemology

Free Download Jonathan O. Chimakonam, "African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 3030724441 | 2021 | 245 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on both African metaphysics and African epistemology, the authors put forward theories formulated to stimulate fresh debates and extend the frontiers of learning in the field. They emphasize that this book is not a project in comparative philosophy, nor is it geared towards making Africa/ns the object/subjects of philosophy. Rather, the book highlights and discusses philosophical insights that have been produced from the African perspective, which the authors argue must be further developed in order to achieve decoloniality in the field of philosophy more broadly.

Free Download Paolo Piccari Mariano L. Bianca, "Epistemology of Ordinary Knowledge"
English | ISBN: 1443880523 | 2015 | 321 pages | PDF | 1209 KB
Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. However, ordinary knowledge is not only the result of sensory-perceptual processes, but also of non-perceptual (noetic) contents that are present in any mind. From an epistemological point of view, ordinary knowledge is a form of knowledge that not only allows epistemic access to the world, but also enables the formulation of models of it with different degrees of reliability. Usually epistemologists focus their attention on scientific knowledge, believing that ordinary knowledge does not, or cannot, have an epistemology for it is not in any way rigorous. The papers collected in this volume analyse different aspects of ordinary knowledge and of its epistemology.

Free Download Toward a Feminist Epistemology (New Feminist Perspectives Series) By Jane Duran
1995 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0847676358 | PDF | 77 MB
Drawing on recent advances in analytic epistemology, feminist scholarship and philosophy of science, the author of this work proposes a feminist theory of knowledge.Jane Duran begins at the intersection betweenrecent work in naturalized contemporarytheory of knowledge and feministtheory. Her account not only elaborates onthe possibility of rigorous feminist epistemology,but serves as an introduction to theandrocentrism inherent in so muchepistemological theorizing itself. Part Onespells out what has counted as epistemologyin the past, and why it is androcentric. InPart Two, Duran carefully and thoroughlydevelops a feminist theory of knowledgebased on the moves in contemporarytheorizing that are now available to us. PartThree ties together the feminist views fromother disciplines or modes of viewing. PartFour reviews the arguments of the precedingchapters and prognosticates about the futureof feminist epistemology, paying special attentionto the most recent work in cognitionand philosophy of mind.

Free Download Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology By Jonathan L. Kvanvig
1996 | 396 Pages | ISBN: 0847681599 | PDF | 111 MB
In his widely influential two-volume work, Warrant: The Current Debate and Warrant and Proper Function, Alvin Plantinga argued that warrant is that which explains the difference between knowledge and true belief. Plantinga not only developed his own account of warrant but also mapped the terrain of epistemology. Motivated by Plantinga’s work, fourteen prominent philosophers have written new essays investigating Plantingian warrant and its contribution to contemporary epistemology. The resulting collection, representing a broad array of views, not only gives readers a critical perspective on Plantinga’s landmark work, but also provides in one volume a clear statement of the variety of approaches to the nature of warrant within contemporary epistemology, and to the connections between epistemology and metaphysics. Positions covered include internalism and externalism, reliabilism, coherentism and foundationalism, virtue theories, and defensibility theories. Alvin Plantinga responds to the essays in his own contribution.

Free Download Transcendental Epistemology
English | 2024 | ISBN: 100947863X | 80 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
Transcendental arguments were prominent in Western philosophy, German idealism, phenomenological tradition, and P. F. Strawson’s thinking. They have fallen out of fashion because of their associations with transcendental idealism and verificationism. They are still invoked by important figures in the analytic tradition even if the very same tradition has cast doubt on such arguments. The nature of transcendental arguments remains unclear: Are they supposed to be deductive? Are they synthetic or analytic? If they are a priori, how are they supposed to be about the empirical world? What are their relations to necessity, conceivability, and essence? This Element takes up the challenge of elucidating the nature of transcendental arguments, embedded in the wider context of transcendental epistemology. It will be argued that the key premise ‘transcendental conditional’ is synthetic, necessary, and a posteriori.

Free Download Denying Existence: The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse By Arindam Chakrabarti (auth.)
1997 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 9048147883 | PDF | 8 MB
This book tries to explore, in language as non-technical as possible, the deepest philosophical problems regarding the logical status of empty (singular) terms such as `Pegasus’, `Batman’, `The impossible staircase departs in Escher’s painting `Ascending-Descending’+ etc., and regarding sentences which deny the existence of singled-out fictional entities. It will be fascinating for literary theorists with a flair for logic, to students of metaphysics and philosophy of language, and for historians of philosophy interested in the fate of the Russell-Meinong debate. For teachers of these aspects of analytic philosophy this will provide a textbook which goes beyond the Western tradition (without plunging into any mystical Eastern `Emptiness’, which is what some previous comparative philosophers did!).

Free Download Andrew Cowen, "Analytical Psychology and Sport: Epistemology, Theory and Practice "
English | ISBN: 0367695561 | 2024 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1469 KB + 6 MB

Free Download The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer By Erik J. Olsson (auth.), Erik J. Olsson (eds.)
2003 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 9401039976 | PDF | 9 MB
Keith Lehrer is one of the leading proponents of a coherence theory of knowledge that seeks to explain what it means to know in a characteristically human way. Central to his account are the pivotal role played by a principle of self-trust and his insistence that a sound epistemology must ultimately be ecumenical in nature, combining elements of internalism and externalism. The present book is an extensive, self-contained, up-to-date study of Lehrer’s epistemological work. Covering all major aspects, it contains original contributions by some of the most distinguished specialists in the field, outgoing from the latest, significantly revised version of Lehrer’s theory. All basic ideas are explained in an introductory chapter. Lehrer’s extensive replies in a final chapter give unique access to his current epistemological thinking.

Free Download Brian Talbot, "The End of Epistemology As We Know It"
English | ISBN: 0197743633 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 464 KB + 11 MB

Free Download Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories – From Peano to the Vienna Circle by Paola Cantù, Georg Schiemer
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 333 Pages | ISBN : 3031421892 | 7.9 MB
This book provides a collection of chapters on the development of scientific philosophy and symbolic logic in the early twentieth century. The turn of the last century was a key transitional period for the development of symbolic logic and scientific philosophy. The Peano school, the editorial board of the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, and the members of the Vienna Circle are generally mentioned as champions of this transformation of the role of logic in mathematics and in the sciences. The scholarship contained provides a rich historical and philosophical understanding of these groups and research areas. Specifically, the contributions focus on a detailed investigation of the relation between structuralism and modern mathematics. In addition, this book provides a closer understanding of the relation between symbolic logic and previous traditions such as syllogistics. This volume also informs the reader on the relation between logic, the history and didactics in the Peano School. This edition appeals to students and researchers working in the history of philosophy and of logic, philosophy of science, as well as to researchers on the Vienna Circle and the Peano School.