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Epistemic Value
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 84.99Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in issues about the value of knowledge and the values informing epistemic appraisal. Is knowledge more valuable that merely true belief or even justified true belief? Is truth the central value informing epistemic appraisal or do other values enter the picture? Epistemic Value is a collection of... more...
Intellectual Virtues
Clarendon Press 2007; US$ 34.99Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call 'regulative epistemology'. This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern for intellectual formation, partly an exploration of connections between... more...
Relying on Others
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 34.99Sanford Goldberg investigates the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world. Two main forms of this reliance are examined: testimony cases, where a subject aims to acquire knowledge through accepting what another tells her; and cases involving "coverage", where a subject aims to acquire knowledge of something... more...
Towards Non-Being
Clarendon Press 2005; US$ 44.99Towards Non-Being presents an account of the semantics of intentional language - verbs such as 'believes', 'fears', 'seeks', 'imagines'. Graham Priest's account tackles problems concerning intentional states which are often brushed under the carpet in discussions of intentionality, such as their failure to be closed... more...
Discourse on Method and Related Writings
Penguin Books Ltd 1999; Not AvailableThis is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier,... more...
Achieving Knowledge
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 26.00Argues that knowledge is a kind of achievement, exploring questions of what it is and what kind of value it has. more...
Consciousness and the Self
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 72.00New essays connecting recent scientific studies with traditional issues about the self explored by Descartes, Locke and Hume. more...
Nature's Challenge to Free Will
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 64.99Hardly any attempt to come to grips with the classical problem of free will and determinism directly addresses the metaphysical vision driving the concerns of those who believe that a significant sort of free will cannot exist in a deterministic world. Ac more...
Immunity to Error through Misidentification
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 76.00Devoted exclusively to the topic, this book analyses immunity to error through misidentification as an important feature of personal judgments. more...









