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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
Hardcover. Epistemic Reasoning and the Mental integrates the epistemology of reasoning and philosophy of mind. By examining the fundamental competencies involved in reasoning, Gerken argues that reasoning depends on the external environment in ways that are both surprising and epistemologically important. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 355 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025517
- ISBN
- 9781137025517
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€ 67.99
€ 67.99
Hardcover. Treating David Hume as a partner in a continuing philosophical dialogue, this book tries to come to terms with Hume's influential thoughts on scepticism and naturalism in a way that sheds light on contemporary philosophy and its relationship to science. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025548
- ISBN
- 9781137025548
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€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. According to a long tradition, questions about the nature of knowledge are to be answered by analyzing it as a species of true belief. In light of the apparent failure of this approach, knowledge first philosophy takes knowledge as the starting point in epistemology. Knowledge First? offers the first overview of this approach. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026453
- ISBN
- 9781137026453
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€ 127.04
€ 127.04
Hardcover. Based on an insightful and innovative reading of Kant's theory of knowledge, this book explores the political implications of Kant's philosophical writings on knowledge. It suggests that Kant offers a stable foundation for the reconsideration of the idea of progress as crucial in matters of political management at the outset of the 21st Century. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137264374
- ISBN
- 9781137264374
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€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GT; HPK; JNA; JNM; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303011
- ISBN
- 9781137303011
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Condition: New
€ 82.62
€ 82.62
Hardback. As thinkers in the market for knowledge and agents aspiring to morally responsible action, we are inevitably subject to luck. This book presents a comprehensive new theory of luck in light of a critical appraisal of the literature's leading accounts, then brings this new theory to bear on issues in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of action. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326096
- ISBN
- 9781137326096
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€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Of the two kinds of philosophical questions - epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them. Num Pages: 130 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326270
- ISBN
- 9781137326270
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€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardcover. Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things we do with words, and with the philosophical insights he believed could be gained by closely examining the uses of words by non-philosophers. Editor(s): Garvey, Brian. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; DSB; HPCF; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329981
- ISBN
- 9781137329981
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€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Do judges' decisions depend on how long it is since they ate their lunch? Is the best place for a woman to seduce a man on a rickety bridge? Does free will really exist? This book explores how our genes and experiences determine our behaviour as well as discussing the implications determinism may have on personal responsibility and morality. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; JMR; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345240
- ISBN
- 9781137345240
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Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. People believe in a great many things; and yet most of us know almost nothing about why other people believe what they do, or indeed about how it feels to believe it. This book presents an objective method for understanding and comparing belief systems - irrespective of whether the investigator happens to agree with them. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346360
- ISBN
- 9781137346360
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€ 66.52
€ 66.52
In Defense of Intuitions: A New Rationalist Manifesto
Chapman, Andrew, Ellis, Addison, Hanna, Rober...
Hardcover. A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347930
- ISBN
- 9781137347930
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€ 68.59
€ 68.59
Hardcover. Professor Morton A. Kaplan offers a philosophical synthesis that transcends the long-standing divide between the analytical and hermeneutic traditions of inquiry. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358561
- ISBN
- 9781137358561
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€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. Fully revised and up-to-date chapters set out a philosophical and practical explanation of what technological literacy is, how we think when we employ it, how we teach it, how we learn it, and how we use it. Editor(s): Dakers, John R. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPK; JFCA; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373465
- ISBN
- 9781137373465
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€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Hardcover. Markus Seidel provides a detailed critique of epistemic relativism in the sociology of scientific knowledge. In addition to scrutinizing the main arguments for epistemic relativism he provides an absolutist account that nevertheless aims at integrating the relativist's intuition. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137377883
- ISBN
- 9781137377883
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€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how scientific thinking can only be grasped from a pragmatic perspective. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389824
- ISBN
- 9781137389824
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Condition: New
€ 128.63
€ 128.63
Hardcover. Discovering someone disagrees with you is a common occurrence. The question of epistemic significance of disagreement concerns how discovering that another disagrees with you affects the rationality of your beliefs on that topic. This book examines the answers that have been proposed to this question, and presents and defends its own answer. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 204 pages, 1 figures. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400895
- ISBN
- 9781137400895
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Condition: New
€ 116.23
€ 116.23
Hardcover. What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414977
- ISBN
- 9781137414977
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Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that affectivity plays in their philosophies, this book claims that the two philosophers share the common goal of making knowledge the most powerful affect. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486059
- ISBN
- 9781137486059
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€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardcover. Epistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology explores the space between epistemology and methodology, offering a systematic examination of the empirical foundations of interpretations in anthropology. Translator(s): Alou, Antoinette Tidjani. Num Pages: 270 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HPK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488497
- ISBN
- 9781137488497
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Condition: New
€ 138.91
€ 138.91
Hardcover. Williamson explains, defends, and applies Kant's theory of emotion. Looking primarily to the Anthropology and the Metaphysics of Morals, she situates Kant's theory of affect within his theory of feeling and focuses on the importance of moral feelings and the moral evaluation of our emotions. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499813
- ISBN
- 9781137499813
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15