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This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with ... More

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Truth, reason, and objectivity--can we survive without them? What happens to law, science, and the pursuit of social justice when such ideas and ... More

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In identifying that the essential tension is the balance between conservative and innovative approaches in the development of knowledge -- tried-and ... More

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Starting with Richard Popkin's essay of 1963, 'Scepticism in the Enlightenment', a new investigation into philosophical scepticism of the period ... More

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Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory, the first volume of a two-volume book collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, ranges from ... More

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Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) was one of the protagonists in shaping the "new philosophy of science". More than 25 years after his untimely death, it is ... More

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Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and laws of nature, ... More

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Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science, is the second volume of a collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, featuring essays addressing ... More

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Surprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory (Carnap and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out to be smoothly ... More

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In Figuring Space Gilles Chatelet seeks to capture the problem of intuition of mobility in philosophy, mathematics and physics. This he does by ... More

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This work is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of ... More

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Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected ... More

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Our trust in the word of others is often dismissed as unworthy, because the illusory ideal of "autonomous knowledge" has prevailed in the debate ... More

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Wilfrid Sellars was and remains one of the most prominent and important twentieth-century philosophers: his writings played a key role in shaping the ... More

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Keith Donnellan is one of the major figures in 20th century philosophy of language and mind, a key member of the highly influential group that ... More

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Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. His thinking about language, mind ... More

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Our trust in the word of others is often dismissed as unworthy, because the illusory ideal of "autonomous knowledge" has prevailed in the debate ... More

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Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in "Descartes's Changing Mind," Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that ... More

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Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann developed ethics upon a phenomenological basis. This volume demonstrates that their contributions to a material ... More

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This is a collection of very recent essays by the leading proponent of process reliabilism, explaining its relation to rival and/or neighboring ... More

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Thomas Reid (1710-96) is now recognized as one of the towering figures of the Enlightenment. Best known for his published writings on epistemology ... More

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Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is now recognized as one of the towering figures of the Enlightenment. Best known for his published writings on epistemology ... More

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In a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas, first published in 2007, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with ... More

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In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts ... More

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