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Natur, Technik, Geist
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 182.00We still follow the definitions of Nature already laid down by Aristotle and Descartes who saw Nature as being delineated from the non-natural (e.g. culture, technology). Schiemann defends the continuing validity of these traditional ways of understanding, but argues that that they prove to be valid only within limited contexts. Depending on the particular... more...
On Historicizing Epistemology
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 19.95This book shows how, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, the philosophy of science was increasingly confronted with historical questions and how it became historicized accordingly. more...
Epistemology and the Social
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 64.40Epistemology had to come to terms with the social on two different occasions. The first was represented by the dispute about the epistemological status of the social sciences, and in this case the already well established epistemology of the natural sciences seemed to have the right to dictate the conditions for a discipline... more...
The Self-Correcting Enterprise
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 84.00This volume presents ten new essays on the work of Wilfrid Sellars and its implications for contemporary philosophy. Contributors run the gamut from established voices in the Sellarsian literature to the newest voices in the field. It addresses topics ranging from cognitive science and philosophy of mind to epistemology and the philosophy of language.... more...
On Truth and Untruth
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 8.99?We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche.? ? New York Times Book Review Best known for his seminal works on religion, morality, existentialism, and contemporary culture, such as The Birth of Tragedy and Thus Spoke Zarathustra , Nietzsche focuses his penetrating insight on assessing the nature of truth in this concise... more...
On Truth
Random House 2010; US$ 13.33Whatever benefits and rewards it may sometimes be possible to attain by bullshitting, by dissembling, or by sheer mendacity, societies cannot afford to tolerate anyone or anything that fosters a slovenly indifference to the distinction between true and false. In a world of spin, rhetoric, blagging and bullshitting, a basic level of scepticism... more...
Truth and Skepticism
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 74.99Robert Almeder provides a comprehensive discussion and definitive refutation of our common conception of truth as a necessary condition for knowledge of the world, and to defend in detail an epistemic conception of truth without falling into the usual epistemological relativism or classical idealism in which all properties of the world turn out to... more...
The Contents of Experience
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 30.00A 1992 volume of essays which examines traditional and contemporary problems of perception. more...
Belief Policies
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 44.00This book argues that no theory of knowledge is complete without standards for accepting and rejecting evidence as belief-worthy. more...
How to Know
Wiley 2011; US$ 109.95Some key aspects of contemporary epistemology deserve to be challenged, and How to Know does just that. This book argues that several long-standing presumptions at the heart of the standard analytic conception of knowledge are false, and defends an alternative, a practicalist conception of knowledge. Presents a philosophically original conception... more...









