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  • Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media
    This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture. The spread of post-truth communication affects ordinary citizens’ commitment to truth and attitudes toward information sources, thereby threatening...
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    73,21 €

  • Intellectual Dependability
    T. Ryan Byerly
    Intellectual Dependability is the first research monograph devoted to addressing the question of what it is to be an intellectually dependable person-the sort of person on whom one’s fellow inquirers can depend in their pursuit of epistemic goods. While neglected in recent scholarship, this question is an important one for both epistemology-how we should conceptualize the ideal...
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    73,41 €

  • C.I. Lewis
    This edited collection explores the philosophy of Clarence Irving Lewis through two major concepts that are integral to his conceptual pragmatism: the a priori and the given. The relation between these two elements of knowledge forms the core of Lewis’s masterpiece Mind and the World Order . While Lewis’s conceptual pragmatism is directed against any conception of the a priori ...
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    72,87 €

  • Viral Critique
    Hannah Richter
    The book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynamics and power structures that shaped Western democracies, non-Western societies and international politics during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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    240,83 €

  • Epistemic Responsibility for Undesirable Beliefs
    Deborah K. Heikes
    This book considers whether we can be epistemically responsible for undesirable beliefs, such as racist and sexist ones. The problem with holding people responsible for their undesirable beliefs is: first, what constitutes an 'undesirable belief' will differ among various epistemic communities; second, it is not clear what responsibility we have for beliefs simpliciter; and thi...
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    144,76 €

  • Narrative as Dialectic Abduction
    Donna E. West
    This book presents a fresh approach to the communicability of narratives, revealing the cognitive underpinnings of Charles Sanders Peirce’s pragmatistic model. It demonstrates how abductive processes modify habits of belief and action in what Peirce refers to as double consciousness.  Abductions generated during double consciousness paradigms have increased efficacy compared to...
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    135,99 €

  • The Future of Free Speech
    Benjamin Walters
    ​This book dives headfirst into the contemporary controversy over the limits of free speech. Changing conceptions of what constitutes legitimate harm coupled with the advent of the internet and social media have provided a challenging environment for defining the boundaries of acceptable speech in our contemporary society. This book argues that these problems emerge due to flaw...
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    52,96 €

  • Lost Voices
    This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the philosophical achievements of various female figures during the period 1870-1970. It was originally published in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. ...
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    241,09 €

  • Knowledge Production and the Search for Epistemic Liberation in Africa
    Dennis Masaka
    This book shows the importance of knowledge production using requisite terms and frameworks to the broader scheme of epistemic liberation in Africa. The text considers what this veritable direction to knowledge production would mean to other areas of concern in African philosophy such as morality, education and the environment.  These contributions are important because the suc...
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    136,10 €

  • Empathy Pathways
    Andeline dos Santos
    Many descriptions of empathy revolve around sharing in and understanding another person’s emotions. One separate person gains access to the emotional world of another. An entire worldview holds up this idea. It is individualistic and affirms the possibility of access to other people’s 'inner world.' Can we really see inside another, though? And are we discrete, separate selves?...
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    133,10 €

  • The Epistemological Quest
    Aaron Adekoya
    At a time in which knowledge has become more reachable than ever before, a revisit to the tools we use to know things beckon. While disturbed with the question, ’But how do you know?’, Aaron Adekoya wields a type of knowledge, episteme, that we can reliably bequeath to posterity for safe use. Through a journey of the natural world and what Adekoya calls an ’Epistemological Ques...
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    16,95 €

  • Engaging Populism
    The past two decades have witnessed an intensifying rise of populist movements globally, and their impact has been felt in both more and less developed countries. Engaging Populism: Democracy and the Intellectual Virtues approaches populism from the perspective of work on the intellectual virtues, including contributions from philosophy, history, religious studies, political ps...
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    133,47 €

  • Theaetetus
    Plato
    The Theaetetus is a philosophical work written by Plato in the early-middle 4th century BCE that investigates the nature of knowledge, and is considered one of the founding works of epistemology. Like many of Plato’s works, the Theaetetus is written in the form of a dialogue, in this case between Socrates and the young mathematician Theaetetus. In the dialogue, Socrates and The...
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    14,44 €

  • Filosofia
    Gilson Luiz Corrêa
    Ao se falar de Filosofia para crianças parece algo impossível, pois somos acostumados a relacionar Filosofia com conceitos complexos e textos totalmente teóricos. Algo distante do mundo das crianças. Na verdade, Filosofia com crianças ainda é um tema não muito conhecido e pouco discutido, são poucas as escolas que permitem fazer esta reflexão e a inclusão da disciplina no currí...
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    11,39 €

  • Seemings and the Foundations of Justification
    Blake McAllister
    All justified beliefs ultimately rest on attitudes that are immediately justified. This book illuminates the nature of immediate justification and the states that provide it. Simply put, immediate justification arises from how things appear to us--from all and only our 'seemings.' ...
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    240,80 €

  • Al Ghazali
    Dar Ul Thaqafah / Mustafa Abu Sway
    'Al-Ghazali: A Study in Islamic Epistemology' is a book written by Mustafa Abu Sway that explores the development of Al-Ghazali’s epistemology. The book questions the claim that Al-Ghazaliy abandoned Sufism for the method of the traditionalists.It analyzes Al-Ghazali’s approach to acquiring certainty, methodological scepticism, foundationalism, attitude to authoritative instruc...
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    18,74 €

  • A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification
    Ivette Fred-Rivera
    This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the problem of a priori knowledge from a historical as well as a systematic perspective. The author explores Kant’s views in connection with the possibility of revision, something hardly, if at all, done in philosophical literature. Furthermore, the views of well-renowned philosophers such as Quine, Putnam, Kitcher, and...
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    146,39 €

  • Explaining Disease
    Raffaella Campaner
    This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine. Medicine has provided challenging case studies for the general philosophy of science that have prompted rethinking of a wide range of philosophical notions - such as scienti...
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    134,28 €

  • Knowing What Things Are
    André J. Abath
    ​This book provides an account of what is to know what things are, focusing on kinds, both natural (such as water) and social (such as marriage). It brings tools from an area that has received much attention in recent years, the epistemology of inquiry. The knowledge of what things are is to be understood as resulting from successful inquiries directed at questions of the form ...
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    146,88 €

  • In the Classroom with Kenneth Burke
    Teaching students to be 'symbol-wise' about the world is vital not simply to students in a successful class but to citizens in a functioning nation. Humans make sense of their world through language, and Kenneth Burke, the 'word man,' spent a lifetime considering how language symbols help us better understand ourselves and our interactions with others. Becoming symbol-wise is a...
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    49,47 €

  • Current Trends in Philosophy of Science
    Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
    This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession. Thus, after an initial chapter to situate the current trends in philosophy of science and the prospective of the near future, it offers contributions in five thematic blocks: I) Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change; ...
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    121,54 €

  • Descartes
    David Cunning
    An outstanding introduction to one of the greatest of Western philosophers. Including a chronology, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of key terms, it is essential reading for anyone studying Descartes and the history of modern philosophy. ...
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    240,15 €

  • Descartes
    David Cunning
    An outstanding introduction to one of the greatest of Western philosophers. Including a chronology, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of key terms, it is essential reading for anyone studying Descartes and the history of modern philosophy. ...
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    46,68 €

  • Sophist
    Plato
    Sophist is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher’s late period, most likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors, led by Eleatic Stranger employ the method of division in order to classify and define the sophist and describe his essential attributes and differentia vis a vis the philosopher and statesman. Like its sequel, the Statesman, the dialogue is unusual in that ...
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    16,50 €

  • Plato’s Dialogues of Definition
    Justin C. Clark
    In each of Plato’s 'dialogues of definition' (Euthyphro, Laches, Meno, Charmides, Lysis, Republic I, Hippias Major), Socrates motivates philosophical discussion by posing a question of the form 'What is F-ness?' Yet these dialogues are notorious for coming up empty. Socrates’ interlocutors repeatedly fail to deliver satisfactory answers. Thus, the dialogues of definition are of...
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    121,99 €

  • Illuminating Errors
    This is the first collection of essays exclusively devoted to knowledge from non-knowledge and related issues. It features original contributions from some of the most prominent and up-and-coming scholars working in contemporary epistemology. ...
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    240,54 €

  • Philosophical Turns
    Robert Wess
    Philosophical Turns is a tour de force, a sophisticated and erudite book that not only captures the cognitive and emotive rhythms of the contemporary philosophical conversation surrounding speculative realism but also becomes a distinctive voice within that conversation. A reviewer can but adumbrate and applaud the density, complexity, and richness of the arguments Robert Wess ...
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    88,97 €

  • Heráclito
    Ricardo Gonçalves
    Heráclito de Éfeso, filósofo do século VI a.C., defendia a noção de todas as coisas estarem em constante devir. Segundo ele, a Natureza (Fluente) é caracterizada por conter em si o processo de geração e corrupção, sem, entretanto, deixar de manter-se a unidade desses dois momentos. De fato, não existem nascimento e morte, e sim a passagem de um momento a outro da existência. Há...
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    13,00 €

  • Philosophical Turns
    Robert Wess
    Philosophical Turns is a tour de force, a sophisticated and erudite book that not only captures the cognitive and emotive rhythms of the contemporary philosophical conversation surrounding speculative realism but also becomes a distinctive voice within that conversation. A reviewer can but adumbrate and applaud the density, complexity, and richness of the arguments Robert Wess ...
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    44,60 €

  • Serendipity Science
    This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins of this emerging field within different disciplines as well as its increasing influence as its own field with foundational texts and emerging practices.  The phenomenon of serendipity has been described in many ways since Horace Wal...
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    48,03 €


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