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  • Knowledge and Conditionals

    Essays on the Structure of Inquiry

    by Robert C. Stalnaker ...
    Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. In the first part he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we use - or ought to use - to determine what to believe, and what to claim that we know. In the second part he examines conditional statements and conditional beliefs, their role in epistemology, and their ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Our Knowledge of the Internal World

    by Robert C. Stalnaker ...
    Series series Lines of Thought
    On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world -- of one's current thoughts and feelings -- is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. The philosophical problem is to explain how we can move beyond this knowledge, how we can form a conception of an objective world, and how we can know that the world answers to our conception of it. This book is in the anti ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Some Remarks on Logical Form

    Including "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein ...
    "Some Remarks on Logical Form" was the only academic paper ever published by Ludwig Wittgenstein, and contained Wittgenstein's thinking on logic and the philosophy of mathematics immediately before the rupture that divided the early Wittgenstein of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus from the late Wittgenstein. Some Remarks on Logical Form is a concise yet profound inquiry into the ways logic ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Constructing the World

    by David J. Chalmers ...
    David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths. The picture is inspired by Rudolf Carnap's construction of the world in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt. Carnap's Aufbau is often seen as a noble failure, but Chalmers argues that a version of the project can succeed. With the right basic elements and the right derivation relation, we ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hume

    Edited by David Fate Norton, Jacqueline Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Kant's Transcendental Deduction

    An Analytical-Historical Commentary

    by Henry E. Allison ...
    Henry E. Allison presents an analytical and historical commentary on Kant`s transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason. He argues that, rather than providing a new solution to an old problem (refuting a global skepticism regarding the objectivity of experience), it addresses a new problem (the role of a priori concepts or categories stemming ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • Self-Knowledge for Humans

    by Quassim Cassam ...
    Human beings are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless and uncritical, and our beliefs, desires, and other attitudes aren't always as they ought rationally to be. Our beliefs can be eccentric, our desires irrational and our hopes hopelessly unrealistic. Our attitudes are influenced by a wide range of non-epistemic or non-rational factors, including our character, our emotions ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind

    by Jaegwon Kim ...
    Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and the nonexistence of laws in the special sciences. Among other topics covered are emergence and emergentism, the nature of explanation and of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Basic Structures of Reality

    Essays in Meta-Physics

    by Colin McGinn ...
    In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the vantage point of physics. Combining general philosophy with physics, he covers such topics as the definition of matter, the nature of space, motion, gravity, electromagnetic fields, the character of physical knowledge, and consciousness and meaning. Throughout, McGinn ... Read more

    $67.19 CAD

  • The Nature of Philosophical Problems

    Their Causes and Implications

    by John Kekes ...
    We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values and reasons that follow from them conflict. Philosophical problems are forced on us when we try to cope with such conflicts. There are reasons for and against all proposed ways of coping with the ... Read more

    $68.79 CAD

  • Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation

    by Raffaella De Rosa ...
    While much has been written on Descartes' theory of mind and ideas, no systematic study of his theory of sensory representation and misrepresentation is currently available in the literature. Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Misrepresentation is an ambitious attempt to fill this gap. It argues against the established view that Cartesian sensations are mere qualia by defending the view that they ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge

    by Alexander Philip ...
    An exploration of the fundamental realities of the existenceIs this the end? If not; how are we to discover and assure for stricken Humanity the vision and the possession of a Better Land?In this volume plumbing the depths of human experience, Alexander Philip explores the nature of reality at its most basic level. Examining the ways that time, abstract thought, and physical sensation affect ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus