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Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge

The Future of Post-Human Knowledge - A Preface to a New Theory of Methodology and Ontology (Paperback, New): Peter Baofu The Future of Post-Human Knowledge - A Preface to a New Theory of Methodology and Ontology (Paperback, New)
Peter Baofu
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why should inquiry be possible, only if some knowledge is required to guide it, as conventionally understood? Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many thinkers in all human history hitherto existing, there are some fundamental dialectic principles hidden behind any categories of understanding in knowing. And these principles impose some constraints, at both methodological and ontological levels, together with other levels in culture, society, nature, and the mind - on how reality is to be understood. Furthermore, the specific categories of understanding (as conventionally understood), even if valid at all (which are often not the case), are often not that important, when compared with these more fundamental dialectic principles hidden behind them. The focus on understanding the nature of knowledge has been much misplaced, in this sense, in the intellectual history hitherto existing, and much time and talent have been wasted for something less important. If true, this thesis will alter the way of how knowledge is to be understood across the board.
Is written by a highly knowledgeable and well-respected scholarA new theory called The Holistic Theory of KnowledgeA comprehensive analysis of knowledge in relation to methodology and ontology, from the perspectives of nature, the mind, society, and culture

Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy (Hardcover): Matthew R. Dasti, Edwin F. Bryant Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy (Hardcover)
Matthew R. Dasti, Edwin F. Bryant
R4,084 Discovery Miles 40 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Indian thought is well known for diverse philosophical and contemplative excursions into the nature of selfhood. Led by Buddhists and the yoga traditions of Hinduism and Jainism, Indian thinkers have engaged in a rigorous analysis and reconceptualization of our common notion of self. Less understood is the way in which such theories of self intersect with issues involving agency and free will; yet such intersections are profoundly important, as all major schools of Indian thought recognize that moral goodness and religious fulfillment depend on the proper understanding of personal agency. Moreover, their individual conceptions of agency and freedom are typically nodes by which an entire school's epistemological, ethical, and metaphysical perspectives come together as a systematic whole. Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy explores the contours of this issue, from the perspectives of the major schools of Indian thought. With new essays by leading specialists in each field, this volume provides rigorous analysis of the network of issues surrounding agency and freedom as developed within Indian thought.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover): Mohan Matthen The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover)
Mohan Matthen
R4,831 Discovery Miles 48 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception. It includes sections on the history of the subject, introductions to contemporary issues in the epistemology, ontology and aesthetics of perception, treatments of the individual sense modalities and of the things we perceive by means of them, and a consideration of how perceptual information is integrated and consolidated. New analytic tools and applications to other areas of philosophy are discussed in depth. Each of the forty-five entries is written by a leading expert, some collaborating with younger figures; each seeks to introduce the reader to a broad range of issues. All contain new ideas on the topics covered; together they demonstrate the vigour and innovative zeal of a young field. The book is accessible to anybody who has an intellectual interest in issues concerning perception.

A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time (Hardcover): Adrian Bardon A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time (Hardcover)
Adrian Bardon
R3,041 Discovery Miles 30 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short yet thorough introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. Its treatment is roughly chronological, starting with the ancient Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides and proceeding through the history of Western philosophy and science up to the present. Using illustrations and keeping technical language to a minimum, A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, time-travel, time and freedom of the will, and scientific and philosophical approaches to eternity and the beginning of time. Bardon brings the resources of over 2500 years of philosophy and science to bear on some of humanity's most fundamental and enduring questions.

The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley (Hardcover): David Berman The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley (Hardcover)
David Berman
R2,331 Discovery Miles 23 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley is an introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant thinkers in the history of philosophy and a penetrating philosophical assessment of his lasting legacy. Written in clear and user-friendly style, Berman provides: * A concise summary of George Berkeley (1685-1753)'s life and writings * An accessible introduction to the structure of Berkeley's most authoritative work, The Principles of Human Knowledge * An overview of common misunderstandings of Berkeley's philosophy, and how to avoid them Beyond solely an introduction, Berman also gives us a broader and deeper appreciation of Berkeley as a philosopher. He argues for Berkeley's work as a philosophical system with coherence and important key themes hitherto unexplored and provides an analysis of why he thinks Berkeley's work has had such lasting significance. With a particular focus on Berkeley's dualist thinking and theories of 'mental types', Berman provides students and scholars with a key to unlocking the significance of this work. This introductory text will provide an insight into Berkeley's full body of work, the distinctiveness of his thinking and how deeply relevant this key thinker is to contemporary philosophy.

Virtue Epistemology - Motivation and Knowledge (Hardcover): Stephen Napier Virtue Epistemology - Motivation and Knowledge (Hardcover)
Stephen Napier
R5,261 Discovery Miles 52 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Combining conceptual analysis with well established empirical evidence, this is an important new book in analytical epistemology.Contemporary epistemology debates have largely been occupied with formulating a definition of knowledge that is immune to any counterexample. To date, no definition has been able to escape unscathed.Moving away from debates about definitions, "Virtue Epistemology" shows what conditions are essential for knowledge and applies this account to different domains. It proposes that agents must be motivated correctly to acquire knowledge, even in the case of perception.Stephen Napier examines closely the empirical research in cognitive science and moral psychology to build an account of knowledge wherein an agent must perform acts of virtue in order to get knowledge. In so doing, Napier provides answers to two key questions: 'what is knowledge?' and 'how do we get it?'

Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback): Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
Immanuel Kant
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mill and Carlyle - an Examination of Mr. John Stuart Mill's Doctrine of Causation in Relation to Moral Freedom. With an... Mill and Carlyle - an Examination of Mr. John Stuart Mill's Doctrine of Causation in Relation to Moral Freedom. With an Occasional Discourse on Sauerteig, by Smelfungus (Paperback)
Patrick Proctor Alexander
R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - Wherein the Chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences,... A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - Wherein the Chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, With the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, Are Inquired Into. First Printed in the Year 1710. to Which Are Added Three (Paperback)
George Berkeley
R599 Discovery Miles 5 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Paperback): George Berkeley A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Paperback)
George Berkeley
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Creative Evolution (Paperback): Henri Bergson Creative Evolution (Paperback)
Henri Bergson
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated (Paperback): James McCosh The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated (Paperback)
James McCosh
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Everything Ancient Was Once New - Indigenous Persistence from Hawai'i to Kahiki (Paperback): Emalani Case Everything Ancient Was Once New - Indigenous Persistence from Hawai'i to Kahiki (Paperback)
Emalani Case; Series edited by Noelani Goodyear-KaaEURO~A pua, April Henderson
R596 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R57 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawai'i's shores. It is therefore both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection. Tracing physical, historical, intellectual, and spiritual journeys to and from Kahiki, Emalani frames it as a place of refuge and sanctuary, a place where ancient knowledge can constantly be made anew. It is in Kahiki, she argues, and in the sanctuary it creates, that today's Kanaka Maoli can find safety and reprieve from the continued onslaught of settler colonial violence, while also confronting some of the often uncomfortable and challenging realities of being Indigenous in Hawai'i, in the Pacific, and in the world. Each chapter of the book engages with Kahiki as a shifting term, employed by Kanaka Maoli to explain their lives and experiences to themselves at different points in history. In doing so, Everything Ancient Was Once New proposes and argues for reactivated and reinvigorated engagements with Kahiki, each supporting ongoing work aimed at decolonizing physical and ideological spaces, and reconnecting Kanaka Maoli to other peoples and places in the Pacific region and beyond in ways that are both purposeful and meaningful. In the book, Kahiki is therefore traced through pivotal moments in history and critical moments in contemporary times, explaining that while not always mentioned by name, the idea of Kahiki was, and is, always full of potential. In writing that is both personal and theoretical, Emalani weaves the past and the present together, reflecting on ancient concepts and their continued relevance in movements to protect lands, waters, and oceans; to fight for social justice; to reexamine our responsibilities and obligations to each other across the Pacific region; and to open space for continued dialogue on what it means to be Indigenous both when at home and when away. Combining personal narrative and reflection with research and critical analysis, Everything Ancient Was Once New journeys to and from Kahiki, the sanctuary for reflection, deep learning, and continued dreaming with the past, in the present, and far into the future.

Simultaneity and Delay - A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time (Hardcover, New): Jay Lampert Simultaneity and Delay - A Dialectical Theory of Staggered Time (Hardcover, New)
Jay Lampert
R4,926 Discovery Miles 49 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Through original speculations on the surprisingly complementary concepts of simultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the great philosophers of time, this book proposes an innovative theory of staggered time. In the early 20th Century, Bergson and Husserl (following Einstein) made Simultaneity-what it means for events to occur at the same time-a central motif in philosophy.In the late 20th Century, Derrida and Deleuze instead emphasized Delay-events staggered over distant times.This struggle between convergent and staggered time also plays out in 20th Century aesthetics (especially music), politics, and the sciences. Despite their importance in the history of philosophy, this is the first book to comprehensively examine the concepts of simultaneity and delay.By putting simultaneity and delay into a dialectical relation, this book argues that time in general is organized by elastic rhythms. Lampert's concepts describe the time-structures of such diverse phenomena as atonal music, political decision-making, neuronal delays, leaps of memory and the boredom of waiting; and simultaneities and delays in everyday experience and behaviour.

Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted - Dialogues with Existentialism, Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Postmodernism... Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted - Dialogues with Existentialism, Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Postmodernism (Hardcover, New)
Paul Fairfield
R4,928 Discovery Miles 49 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this important new study, Paul Fairfield examines a number of issues of central importance to philosophical hermeneutics. His aim is less to reexamine the basic hypotheses of hermeneutics (Gadamer's hermeneutics in particular) than to understand it in relational terms, by bringing it into closer association with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism. Fairfield contends that there are important affinities and areas for critical exchange between hermeneutics and these four schools of thought which have, until now, remained underappreciated. Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted examines several of these connections by interpreting hermeneutics in relation to specific themes in the writings of key figures within each of these traditions. In so doing, he both clarifies some outstanding issues in hermeneutics and advances the subject beyond what Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur have given us.

Richard's Little Book of Theories, Philosophies and Inspirational Words (Paperback): Richard Mawby Richard's Little Book of Theories, Philosophies and Inspirational Words (Paperback)
Richard Mawby
R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The COLOUR OF TRUTH, v. 1: Patterns in Light (Paperback, 3 full-colour edition): Stephen T. Manning The COLOUR OF TRUTH, v. 1: Patterns in Light (Paperback, 3 full-colour edition)
Stephen T. Manning
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Critique of Pure Reason (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Included in this volume is an introduction by the translator, J.M.D. Meiklejohn. Revised edition, originally published by The Colonial Press in 1899.

Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback): Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
Immanuel Kant
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Included in this volume is an introduction by the translator, J.M.D. Meiklejohn. Revised edition, originally published by The Colonial Press in 1899.

Taking Off Roofs and Building Bridges (Hardcover): Alan J Pihringer Taking Off Roofs and Building Bridges (Hardcover)
Alan J Pihringer
R912 R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Save R128 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Notes from the Crawl Room - A Collection of Philosophical Horrors (Hardcover): A.M. Moskovitz Notes from the Crawl Room - A Collection of Philosophical Horrors (Hardcover)
A.M. Moskovitz
R2,503 Discovery Miles 25 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Notes from the Crawl Room employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy. Each story reveals disastrous and de-humanising effects of philosophies that are separated from real, lived experience (e.g. the absurdity of arguing over a sentence in Kant while the world burns around us). From a Kafkaesque exploration of administrative absurdities to the horrors of discursive violence, white supremacy and the living spectres of patriarchy, A.M. Moskovitz doesn't shy away from addressing the complex aspects of our lives. In addition to offering often humourous critiques of philosophy, these works are also, somewhat ironically, pieces of philosophy themselves. Each story seeks to move a subject area forward offering the reader the capacity to think through ideas in a weirder and more open way than traditional philosophy usually allows. An antidote to philosophy that seeks to close down and shut off the imaginative potential of human thought, Notes from the Crawl Room revels in the unsettling and creative potential of stories for revealing what thinking philosophically might really mean.

Self, System and the Non-Conscious - The Further Metaphysics of Meaning and Mystery (Hardcover): Laurence Peddle Self, System and the Non-Conscious - The Further Metaphysics of Meaning and Mystery (Hardcover)
Laurence Peddle
R697 R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The God of Chance and Purpose (Hardcover): Bradford Mccall The God of Chance and Purpose (Hardcover)
Bradford Mccall; Foreword by John F. Haught
R918 R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Save R133 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mystery Beyond Knowledge - Scepticism, Intentionality and the Non-conscious (Hardcover): Laurence Peddle The Mystery Beyond Knowledge - Scepticism, Intentionality and the Non-conscious (Hardcover)
Laurence Peddle
R702 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Save R43 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philosophy, Literature and Understanding - On Reading and Cognition (Hardcover): Jukka Mikkonen Philosophy, Literature and Understanding - On Reading and Cognition (Hardcover)
Jukka Mikkonen
R3,369 Discovery Miles 33 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Challenging existing methodological conceptions of the analytic approach to aesthetics, Jukka Mikkonen brings together philosophy, literary studies and cognitive psychology to offer a new theory on the cognitive value of reading fiction. Philosophy, Literature and Understanding defends the epistemic significance of narratives, arguing that it should be explained in terms of understanding rather than knowledge. Mikkonen formulates understanding as a cognitive process, which he connects to narrative imagining in order to assert that narrative is a central tool for communicating understanding. Demonstrating the effects that literary works have on their readers, he examines academic critical analysis, responses of the reading public and nonfictional writings that include autobiographical testimony to their writer's influences and attitudes to life. In doing so, he provides empirical evidence of the cognitive benefits of literature and of how readers demonstrate the growth of their understanding. By drawing on the written testimony of the reader, this book is an important intervention into debates on the value of literature that incorporates understanding in new and imaginative ways.

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