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Two top sociologists map out how individuals can reclaim their convictions from the twin dangers of fundamentalism and a loss of moral values. ... More

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Is there 'truth' even if it is not certain and we cannot be certain about it? Sontag answers a resounding 'yes' in Uncertain Truth asserting that, in ... More

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This book argues that no theory of knowledge is complete without standards for accepting and rejecting evidence as belief-worthy.

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"This book is a comprehensive attack on several of the views that have been most influential in the philosophy of psychology during the last two ... More

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Are any of our beliefs justified? Are they rational? The skeptic thinks that our epistemic justifications are undeserved. Nicholas Nathan confronts ... More

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The Price of Doubt is an important contribution to the problem of scepticism. It offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. ... More

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Is absolute belief making a comeback? Recently the public has accepted unquestioningly certain political, economic, and scientific theories, and for ... More

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"Philosophers have long been concerned about what we know and how we know it. Increasingly, however, a related question has gained prominence in ... More

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Some Thoughts on Thinking is a work dealing with the issues one faces when one attempts to construct non-arbitrary beliefs about ourselves and our ... More

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What role, if any, does formal logic play in characterizing epistemically rational belief? Traditionally, belief is seen in a binary way -- either ... More

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Theories of belief and meaning have long occupied philosophers. Typically, there is a correlation between the meaning of a sentence that is uttered ... More

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In this work of original philosophy, Piotr Hoffman focuses on two of the central concerns of modern philosophy--doubt and time. He argues that both ... More

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