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Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology - Theoretical and Cognitive Issues (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Lorenzo Magnani Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology - Theoretical and Cognitive Issues (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Lorenzo Magnani
R5,711 Discovery Miles 57 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contains contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (MBR012), held on June 21-23 in Sestri Levante, Italy. Interdisciplinary researchers discuss in this volume how scientific cognition and other kinds of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts. Some of the contributions analyzed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology and stressed the issues of scientific and technological innovation. The book is divided in three main parts: models, mental models, representations; abduction, problem solving and practical reasoning; historical, epistemological and technological issues.

The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international

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The Future of Values - 21st Century Talks (Paperback): Jerome Binde The Future of Values - 21st Century Talks (Paperback)
Jerome Binde
R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Genocide and community violence, the loss of ethical landmarks and social "order," lack of confidence in the viability of the prevailing system and economic forces: the 20th century has painfully challenged all our certainties concerning society, history, and humankind. This volume offers reflections on the likely nature of the values of the 21st century and addresses questions such as whether aesthetics will prevail over ethics, whether the third industrial revolution and its forms of globalization will shatter culture as we know it, hasten the decline of thousands of languages, or give rise to new forms of racism or "genism." This volume, the second anthology originating from UNESCO's "Twenty-first Century Dialogues," brings together about fifty scientists and researchers from the four corners of the world to ponder the future of values and humanity. Contributors include: Arjun Appadurai, Jean Baudrillard, Peter Sloterdikjk, Paul Ricoeur, Julia Kristeva, Paul Kennedy, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Delors, Edward O. Wilson, Nadine Gordimer, Achille Mbembe, Adalbert Barreto, Trinh Xuan Thuan.

Reason and Explanation - A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism (Hardcover): T Poston Reason and Explanation - A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism (Hardcover)
T Poston
R2,583 R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs.

Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism, and Beyond - Four Days in India (Hardcover, New): Michael Krausz Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism, and Beyond - Four Days in India (Hardcover, New)
Michael Krausz
R2,845 Discovery Miles 28 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is truth, goodness, or beauty? Can we really define these concepts without the idea of a frame of reference? In the newest addition to the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, Michael Krausz presents fictional dialogues between four former classmates who hold significantly different views about these questions. As they travel in India, a place with unfamiliar concepts and customs, these four friends debate the rightness of relativism and absolutism. Are these concepts irreconcilable? Might there be a better view that goes beyond both of them? These lively discussions provide students with an accessible introduction to one of the most enduring and far-reaching philosophical problems of our age.

Critique of Pure Reason, Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2007): I. Kant Critique of Pure Reason, Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2007)
I. Kant; Edited by Norman Kemp Smith; Howard Caygill, G. Banham, N Kemp Smith
R4,641 Discovery Miles 46 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" is one of the most rewarding, and difficult, of all philosophical works. The text followed is that of the second edition of 1787, and a translation is also given of all first edition passages which in the second edition are either altered or omitted. For this reissue of Kemp Smith's classic 1929 edition, Gary Banham has contributed a major new Bibliography of secondary sources on Kant, including stable internet resources, journal articles and books.

Epistemology, Ethics, and Meaning in Unusually Personal Scholarship (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Amber Esping Epistemology, Ethics, and Meaning in Unusually Personal Scholarship (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Amber Esping
R3,116 Discovery Miles 31 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps, Frankl believed the search for meaning is a powerful motivator, and that its discovery can be profoundly therapeutic. Part I begins with four stories of professors finding meaning. Using the case studies as a foundation, Part II investigates issues of epistemology and ethics in unusually personal research from an existential perspective. The book offers advice for graduate students and faculty who want to live and work more meaningfully in the academy.

The Law of Causality and Its Limits (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): Philipp Frank The Law of Causality and Its Limits (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Philipp Frank; Edited by Robert S. Cohen
R2,911 Discovery Miles 29 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Law of Causality and its Limits was the principal philosophical work of the physicist turned philosopher, Philipp Frank. Born in Vienna on March 20, 1884, Frank died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 21, 1966. He received his doctorate in 1907 at the University of Vienna in theoretical physics, having studied under Ludwig Boltzmann; his sub sequent research in physics and mathematics was represented by more than 60 scientific papers. Moreover his great success as teacher and expositor was recognized throughout the scientific world with publication of his collaborative Die Differentialgleichungen der Mechanik und Physik, with Richard von Mises, in 1925-27. Frank was responsible for the second volume, on physics, and especially noted for his authoritative article on classical Hamiltonian mechanics and optics. Among his earliest papers were those, beginning in 1908, devoted to special relativity, which together with general relativity and physical cosmology occupied him throughout his life. Already in 1907, Frank published his seminal paper 'Kausalgesetz und Erfahrung' ('Experience and the Law of Causality'), much later collected with a splendid selection of his essays on philosophy of science, in English (1941c and 1949g, in our Bibliography). Joining the first 'Vienna Circle' in the first decade of the 20th century, with Hans Hahn, mathematician, and Otto Neurath, sociologist and economist, and deeply influenced by studies of Ernst Mach's critical conceptual histories of science and by the striking challenge of Poincare and Duhem, Frank continued his epistemological investigations."

Minimal Semantics (Hardcover, New): Emma Borg Minimal Semantics (Hardcover, New)
Emma Borg
R3,946 Discovery Miles 39 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Minimal Semantics asks what a theory of literal linguistic meaning is for--if you were to be given a working theory of meaning for a language right now, what would you be able to do with it? Emma Borg sets out to defend a formal approach to semantic theorizing from a relatively new type of opponent--advocates of what she calls "dual pragmatics." According to dual pragmatists, rich pragmatic processes play two distinct roles in linguistic comprehension: as well as operating in a post-semantic capacity to determine the implicatures of an utterance, they also operate prior to the determination of truth-conditional content for a sentence. That is to say, they have an integral role to play within what is usually thought of as the semantic realm.
Borg believes dual pragmatic accounts constitute the strongest contemporary challenge to standard formal approaches to semantics since they challenge the formal theorist to show not merely that there is some role for formal processes on route to determination of semantic content, but that such processes are sufficient for determining content. Minimal Semantics provides a detailed examination of this school of thought, introducing readers who are unfamiliar with the topic to key ideas like relevance theory and contextualism, and looking in detail at where these accounts diverge from the formal approach.
Borg's defense of formal semantics has two main parts: first, she argues that the formal approach is most naturally compatible with an important and well-grounded psychological theory, namely the Fodorian modular picture of the mind. Then she argues that the main arguments adduced by dual pragmatists against formal semantics--concerning apparent contextual intrusions into semantic content--can in fact be countered by a formal theory. The defense holds, however, only if we are sensitive to the proper conditions of success for a semantic theory. Specifically, we should reject a range of onerous constraints on semantic theorizing (e.g., that it answer epistemic or metaphysical questions, or that it explain our communicative skills) and instead adopt a quite minimal picture of semantics.

From a Metaphorical Point of View - A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Cognitive Content of Metaphor (Hardcover, Reprint... From a Metaphorical Point of View - A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Cognitive Content of Metaphor (Hardcover, Reprint 2015)
Zdravko Radman
R3,537 R2,765 Discovery Miles 27 650 Save R772 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Meaning (Hardcover): Paul Horwich Meaning (Hardcover)
Paul Horwich
R3,202 Discovery Miles 32 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is meaning? Paul Horwich presents an original philosophical theory, demonstrates its richness, and defends it against all comers. At the core of his theory is the idea, made famous by Wittgenstein, that the meaning of a word derives from its use; Horwich articulates this idea in a new way that will restore it to the prominence that it deserves. He surveys the diversity of valuable insights into meaning that have been gained in the twentieth century, and seeks to accommodate them within his theory. His aim is not to correct a common-sense view of meaning, but to vindicate it: he seeks to take the mystery out of meaning. Horwich's 1990 book Truth stablished itself both as the definitive exposition and defence of a notable philosophical theory, `minimalism', and as a stimulating, straightforward introduction to philosophical debate about truth. Meaning now gives the broader context in which the theory of truth operates, and is published simultaneously with a revised edition of Truth, in which Horwich refines and develops his treatment of the subject in the light of subsequent discussions, while preserving the distinctive format which made the book so successful. The two books together present a compelling view of the relations between language, thought, and reality. They will be essential reading for all philosophers of language.

A Priori (Paperback, New): Edwin Mares A Priori (Paperback, New)
Edwin Mares
R1,303 Discovery Miles 13 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In recent years many influential philosophers have advocated that philosophy is an a priori science. Yet very few epistemology textbooks discuss a priori knowledge at any length, focusing instead on empirical knowledge and empirical justification. As a priori knowledge has moved centre stage, the literature remains either too technical or too out of date to make up a reasonable component of an undergraduate course. Edwin Mares book aims to rectify this. This book seeks to make accessible to students the standard topics and current debates within a priori knowledge, including necessity and certainty, rationalism, empiricism and analyticity, Quine's attack on the a priori, Kantianism, Aristotelianism, mathematical knowledge, moral knowledge, logical knowledge and philosophical knowledge.

Arguing on the Toulmin Model - New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation (Hardcover): David Hitchcock, Bart Verheij Arguing on the Toulmin Model - New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation (Hardcover)
David Hitchcock, Bart Verheij
R6,574 Discovery Miles 65 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In The Uses of Argument, first published in 1958, Stephen Toulmin proposed a new model for the layout of arguments, with six components: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Toulmin's model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. The present volume aims to bring together the best contemporary reflection in these fields on the Toulmin model and its current appropriation. The volume includes 24 articles by 27 scholars from 10 countries. All the essays are newly written, have been selected from among those received in response to a call for papers, and have been revised extensively in response to referees' comments. They are not exegetical but substantive, extending or challenging Toulmin's ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments.

Discourse on the Method (Hardcover): Rene Descartes Discourse on the Method (Hardcover)
Rene Descartes
R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (Paperback): Justin Khoo, Rachel Katharine Sterken The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
Justin Khoo, Rachel Katharine Sterken
R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors. Its 24 chapters were written exclusively for this volume by an international team of leading researchers, and together they provide a broad expert introduction to the major issues currently under discussion in this area. The volume is divided into four parts: Part I: Methodological and Foundational Issues Part II: Non-ideal Semantics and Pragmatics Part III: Linguistic Harms Part IV: Applications The parts, and chapters in each part, are introduced in the volume's General Introduction. A list of Works Cited concludes each chapter, pointing readers to further areas of study. The Handbook is the first major, multi-authored reference work in this growing area and essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of language and its relationship to social and political reality.

Towards a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception - How We Relate to the World (Hardcover, Digital original): Nadja El... Towards a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception - How We Relate to the World (Hardcover, Digital original)
Nadja El Kassar
R3,873 Discovery Miles 38 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable about the world? In this book Nadja El Kassar argues that an informed answer requires a novel theory of perception: perceptual experience involves conceptual capacities and consists in a relation between a perceiver and the world. Contemporary theories of perception disagree about the role of content and conceptual capacities in perceptual experience. In her analysis El Kassar scrutinizes the arguments of conceptualist and relationist theories, thereby exposing their limitations for explaining the epistemic role of perceptual experience. Against this background she develops her novel theory of epistemically significant perception. Her theory improves on current accounts by encompassing both the epistemic role of perceptual experiences and its perceptual character. Central claims of her theory receive additional support from work in vision science, making this book an original contribution to the philosophy of perception.

Self-Control (Paperback): Marcela Herdova, Stephen Kearns, Neil Levy Self-Control (Paperback)
Marcela Herdova, Stephen Kearns, Neil Levy
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The first comprehensive philosophical introduction and assessment to the problem of self-control, an increasingly popular topic in philosophy Self-control is one of the most fascinating problems in philosophy, studied in core subjects such as free will and ethics, yet there is no book available explaining in clear language what it is Plenty of examples from psychology and philosophy including self-deception in mental disorder, addiction and everyday examples such as loss of willpower and even mind-wandering Includes helpful additional features such as chapter summaries, annotated further reading and glossary Very strong author team led by Neil Levy, well-known for his work on addiction, consciousness and free will.

Essays on Actions and Events - Philosophical Essays Volume 1 (Hardcover, New Ed): Donald Davidson Essays on Actions and Events - Philosophical Essays Volume 1 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Donald Davidson
R3,981 Discovery Miles 39 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory.

The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism (Hardcover): John Greco The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism (Hardcover)
John Greco
R4,999 Discovery Miles 49 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the history of philosophical thought, few themes loom as large as skepticism. Skepticism has been the most visible and important part of debates about knowledge. Skepticism at its most basic questions our cognitive achievements, challenges our ability to obtain reliable knowledge; casting doubt on our attempts to seek and understand the truth about everything from ethics, to other minds, religious belief, and even the underlying structure of matter and reality. Since Descartes, the defense of knowledge against skepticism has been one of the primary tasks not just of epistemology but philosophy itself.
The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism features twenty-six newly commissioned chapters by top figures in the field. Part One contains articles explaining important kinds of skeptical reasoning. Part Two focuses on responses to skeptical arguments. Part Three concentrates on important contemporary issues revolving around skepticism. As the first volume of its kind, the articles make significant contributions to the debate on skepticism.

The Historical Value of Myths (Hardcover): John Karabelas The Historical Value of Myths (Hardcover)
John Karabelas
R1,522 Discovery Miles 15 220 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The book analyses the work of R.G. Collingwood and Romantic thinkers, taking an interdisciplinary approach to mythology The book traces the changing relationship between history and myth and argues for new methodological approaches The book brings forward the broader perspective of idealism, where history is viewed as a form of knowledge, to bear upon a discussion of the nature of myths

Pragmatism and Realism (Paperback, New): Frederick L. Will, Kenneth R. Westphal, Alasdair MacIntyre Pragmatism and Realism (Paperback, New)
Frederick L. Will, Kenneth R. Westphal, Alasdair MacIntyre
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'I have no doubt at all, that if philosophy is to prosper in the coming decades, it will have to treat with great seriousness that splendid seriousness that splendid body of philosophical writing of which the essays in this volume constitute one major part'. from the Foreword by Alasdair MacIntyre When historians of philosophy turn to the work of distinguished philosopher Frederick L. Will, Pragmatism and Realism will be an important part of the discussion. In this collection of nine essays, Will demonstrates that a social account of human knowledge is consistent with, and ultimately requires, realism. A timely contribution to the current debate, the book culminates in a naturalistic account of the generation, assessment, and revision of cognitive, moral and social norms. It is written clearly enough for undergraduates, and includes a critical introduction by the editor discussing the bearing of Will's views on current debates among analytic epistemologists, philosophers of science, and moral theorists.

Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Hugo Strandberg Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Hugo Strandberg
R2,474 R1,942 Discovery Miles 19 420 Save R532 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The aim of this book is to acquire a better understanding of the question 'who am I?' By means of the concepts of self-knowledge and self-deception questions about the self are studied. The light in which its topic is seen is the light of love, the light in which other people really become visible and so oneself in one's relation to them.

Wittgenstein - To Follow a Rule (Paperback): S Holtzman, C M Leich Wittgenstein - To Follow a Rule (Paperback)
S Holtzman, C M Leich
R1,800 Discovery Miles 18 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Durkheim, Bernard and Epistemology (Hardcover): Paul Q. Hirst Durkheim, Bernard and Epistemology (Hardcover)
Paul Q. Hirst
R4,478 Discovery Miles 44 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title, first published in 1975, contains two complimentary studies by Paul Q. Hirst: the first based on Claude Bernard's theory of scientific knowledge, and the second concerning Emile Durkheim's attempt to provide a philosophical foundation for a scientific sociology in The Rules of Sociological Method. The author's primary concern is to answer the question: is Durkheim's theory of knowledge logically consistent and philosophically viable? His principal conclusion is that the epistemology developed in the Rules is an impossible one and that its inherent contradictions are proof that sociology as it is commonly understood can never be a scientific discipline.

Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy (Hardcover): T Rockmore, D. Breazeale Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy (Hardcover)
T Rockmore, D. Breazeale
R2,441 R2,052 Discovery Miles 20 520 Save R389 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With renewed attention to German idealism in general and to Fichte in particular, this timely collection of new papers will be of interest to anyone concerned with transcendental philosophy, German idealism, modern German philosophy and transcendental arguments.

Virtue Epistemology and the Analysis of Knowledge - Toward a Non-Reductive Model (Hardcover): Ian Church Virtue Epistemology and the Analysis of Knowledge - Toward a Non-Reductive Model (Hardcover)
Ian Church
R2,931 Discovery Miles 29 310 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book centers on two dominant trends within contemporary epistemology: first, the dissatisfaction with the project of analyzing knowledge in terms of necessary and jointly sufficient conditions and, second, the surging popularity of virtue-theoretic approaches to knowledge. Church argues that the Gettier Problem, the primary reason for abandoning the reductive analysis project, cannot viably be solved, and that prominent approaches to virtue epistemology fail to solve the Gettier Problem precisely along the lines his diagnosis predicts. Such an outcome motivates Church to explore a better way forward: non-reductive virtue epistemology. In so doing, he makes room for virtue epistemologies that are not only able to endure what he sees as inevitable developments in 21st-century epistemology, but also able to contribute positively to debates and discussions across the discipline and beyond.

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