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Think
OUP Oxford 1999; US$ 20.99This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important.Simon Blackburn begins by putting forward a convincing case for the... more...
What to Believe Now
Wiley 2012; US$ 93.95What can we know and what should we believe about today's world? What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues applies the concerns and techniques of epistemology to a wide variety of contemporary issues. Questions about what we can know-and what we should believe-are first addressed through an explicit consideration of the... more...
Explanations
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 34.99Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of 'explanation' and its scope and limits pervades popular... more...
Reliabilism and Contemporary Epistemology
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 73.99This is a collection of very recent essays by the leading proponent of process reliabilism, explaining its relation to rival and/or neighboring theories including evidentialism, other forms of reliabilism, and virtue epistemology. It addresses other prominent themes in contemporary epistemology, such as the internalism/externalism debate, the epistemological... more...
What is Truth?
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 25.00A study in philosophical logic of the meaning of 'true'. more...
The Senses
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 27.99The senses, or sensory modalities, constitute the different ways we have of perceiving the world, such as seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. But how many senses are there? How many could there be? What makes the senses different? What interaction takes place between the senses? This book is a guide to thinking about these questions. Together... more...
Rethinking Epistemology
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00This volume contains contributions to the ?systematic study of knowledge.? They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the second volume are the following: variants of skepticism; knowledge of the first, second, and third person; practical knowledge and the structure of action; knowledge and the problem of... more...
Christliche Wurzeln der Todesphilosophie Heideggers
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 25.87Hauptbeschreibung Der Tod wird in westlichen Kulturkreisen gesellschaftlich verdrängt. Dieses Phänomen wird anhand sozio-phänomenologischer Betrachtungen zum Schönheitswahn, zur Institutionalisierung des Todes sowie der medialen Todesdarstellung und zum Bestattungswandel in der gegenwärtigen Moderne von Thorsten Milchert detailliert erörtert. Mit... more...
Zeno and the Tortoise
Atlantic Books Ltd 2009; US$ 10.19Zeno and the Tortoise explains not just who each philosopher was and what he thought, but exactly how he came to think in the way that he did. Nicholas Fearn presents philosophy as a collection of tools - from Ockham's Razor to Hume's Fork - each of which can be brought to bear on any number of predicaments. Written in twenty-five short chapters,... more...
Epistemology
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 60.00Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, this is a concise and accessible introduction to the field of epistemology. Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how epistemological thinking has developed over the centuries, through the work of the finest thinkers on the topic.... more...









