4,643円 Peter van Inwagen, author of the classic book An Essay on Free Will (1983), has established himself over the last forty years as a leading figure in the philosophical debate about the problem of free will. This volume presents eleven influential essays from throughout his career, as well as two n...

14,585円 This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades. A...

400円 Può la conoscenza essere definita come un "gesto"? La filosofia la ha sempre analizzata come una struttura logica, eppure, sostiene Brunella Antomarini, dietro quella struttura c'è un'azione che deve essere descritta nella sua concretezza e che avviene quando "crediamo" di conoscere. Si tratta di...

300円 Ontology, the science of beingness, reveals deep insights about the nature of human life and experience. An ontological analysis of the human conditionーour way of beingーshows that our everyday social relations give us a particular kind of preoccupation with the world. This care about the world ...

600円 La discussione generale sulla filosofia della scienza contemporanea è complicata dal numero e dall'eterogeneità delle scienze, mentre lo studio di temi specifici porta inevitabilmente a dissertazioni specialistiche che mancano nel dare ragione della trama di senso sottostante. Questo "Piccolo tra...

600円 Irrazionali, emotive e passive, parlano e amano troppo, sono fedeli, disponibili al contatto umano, adatte ai compiti di cura ma non a quelli dirigenziali, non sono oggettive e non amano la matematica. Questi sono solo alcuni dei luoghi comuni e dei pregiudizi tipici della nostra società, usati p...

600円 In un'epoca contraddistinta dall'esigenza di conoscenza effettiva e specialistica, ma purtroppo inquinata da troppe conoscenze presunte e generiche, sembra oggi più che mai necessario rivolgersi allo strumento epistemologico della riflessione filosofica. Dunque, cosa significa "conoscere", e perc...

8,315円 Justin Snedegar develops and defends contrastivism about reasons. This is the view that normative reasons are fundamentally reasons for or against actions or attitudes only relative to sets of alternatives. Simply put, reasons are always reasons to do one thing rather than another, instead of sim...

11,440円 Epistemic contextualism is a recent and hotly debated topic in philosophy. Contextualists argue that the language we use to attribute knowledge can only be properly understood relative to a specified context. How much can our knowledge depend on context? Is there a limit, and if so, where does it...

13,099円 This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements are produced, for example, in astronomy and seismology, in studies of human sexuality and ecology, in brain imaging and intelligence testing. It considers photogra...

10,612円 Current Controversies in Values and Science asks ten philosophers to debate five questions (two philosophers per debate) that are driving contemporary work in this important area of philosophy of science. The book is perfect for the advanced student, building up her knowledge of the foundations o...

10,612円 The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility. In one strand of our thinking, we believe that a person can become more blameworthy by luck. For example, two reckless drivers manage their vehicles in the same way, and one but not th...