The Nature of Metaphysical Knowledge
Author | : George F. McLean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780819169266 |
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Author | : George F. McLean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780819169266 |
Author | : George F. McLean |
Publisher | : University Press of Amer |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Metaphysics. |
ISBN | : 9780819169273 |
Author | : Carveth Read |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : First philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hilary Kornblith |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2002-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191529842 |
Philosophers have traditionally used conceptual analysis to investigate knowledge. Hilary Kornblith argues that this is misguided: it is not the concept of knowledge that we should be investigating, but knowledge itself, a robust natural phenomenon, suitable for scientific study. Cognitive ethologists not only attribute intentional states to non-human animals, they also speak of such animals as having knowledge; and this talk of knowledge does causal and explanatory work within their theories. The account of knowledge which emerges from this literature is a version of reliabilism: knowledge is reliably produced true belief. This account of knowledge is not meant merely to provide an elucidation of an important scientific category. Rather, Kornblith argues that knowledge, in this very sense, is what philosophers have been talking about all along. Rival accounts are examined in detail and it is argued that they are inadequate to the phenomenon of knowledge (even of human knowledge). One traditional objection to this sort of naturalistic approach to epistemology is that, in providing a descriptive account of the nature of important epistemic categories, it must inevitably deprive these categories of their normative force. But Kornblith argues that a proper account of epistemic normativity flows directly from the account of knowledge which is found in cognitive ethology. Knowledge may be properly understood as a real feature of the world which makes normative demands upon us. This controversial and refreshingly original book offers philosophers a new way to do epistemology.
Author | : David Pears |
Publisher | : London, Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Metaphysics |
ISBN | : |
"The essays ... originated as talks in the Third programme of the B.B.C." Bibliographical footnotes.
Author | : Marcus Willaschek |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2018-11-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 110847263X |
Detailed exploration of the Transcendental Dialectic, in which Kant uncovers the sources of metaphysics in human reason.
Author | : Stephen Mumford |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012-08-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191640263 |
Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for many people yet it is associated with being complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or religious. For others it is known through the metaphysical poets who talk of love and spirituality. This Very Short Introduction goes right to the heart of the matter, getting to the basic and most important questions of metaphysical thought in order to understand the theory: What are objects? Do colours and shapes have some form of existence? What is it for one thing to cause another rather than just being associated with it? What is possible? Does time pass? By using these questions to initiate thought about the basic issues around substance, properties, changes, causes, possibilities, time, personal identity, nothingness and emergentism, Stephen Mumford provides a clear and simple path through this analytical tradition at the core of philosophical thought. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : Cecil Delisle Burns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Intellect |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Claudine Tiercelin |
Publisher | : Collège de France |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 272260230X |
Metaphysics has been proclaimed to be archaic or outdated. Actually, it never “died”. It has even experienced considerable revival throughout the world, which in France we have yet to fully appreciate. Because, in both the most general and the most precise ways, it questions “what there is”, it is essential to any knowledge-related undertaking, in the sense not of a recognition of eternal truths but of an enquiry on the world and on reality. In this lecture Claudine Tiercelin sets out the programme of a scientific and realist metaphysics rooted in the rationalist tradition and diametrically opposed to obscurantist spiritualism and post-modern relativism.
Author | : Peter Coffey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
ISBN | : |