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Deliberate ignorance :choosing not to know
"Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars discuss when is deliberate ignorance a virtue, and what type of environment does it require"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363273
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Inductive inference and its natural ground : an essay in naturalistic epistem…
"A Bradford book."Hilary Kornblith presents an account of inductive inference that addresses both its metaphysical and epistemological aspects. He argues that inductive knowledge is possible by virtue of the fit between our innate psychological capacities and the causal structure of the world.Kornblith begins by developing an account of natural kinds that has its origins in John Locke's work on…
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- 0585311234
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- 1 online resource (x, 123 pages)
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- 100 KOR i
Conditionals
"A Bradford Book."A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282321
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- 1 online resource (246 pages) :illustrations
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Anti-individualism and knowledge
"A Bradford book."Contemporary philosophy of mind is dominated by anti-individualism, which holds that a subject's thoughts are determined not only by what is inside her head but also by aspects of her environment. Despite its dominance, anti-individualism is subject to a daunting array of epistemological objections: that it is incompatible with the privileged access each subject has to her tho…
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- 9780262269346
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 339 pages).
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Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique
This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of critical resistance? Without appeals to abstract norms, how can emancipatory resistance be distinguished from domination? …
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- 9780262275798
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- 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages)
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Knowledge and skepticism, Volume 5
There are two main questions in epistemology: What is knowledge? And: Do we have any of it? The first question asks after the nature of a concept; the second involves grappling with the skeptic, who believes that no one knows anything. This collection of original essays addresses the themes of knowledge and skepticism, offering both contemporary epistemological analysis and historical perspecti…
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- 9780262265782
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- 1 online resource (viii, 367 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Mental time travel episodic memory and our knowledge of the personal past
"In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge.\sCurrent philosophical approaches to memory rest on assumptions that are incompatible with the rich body of theory and data coming from psychology.\sMichaelian argues that abandoning those assumptions will result in a …
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- 9780262334570
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- 1 online resource (xx, 291 pages) :illustrations.
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Cognitive pluralism
An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications. Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the basic units of knowledge and understanding are concepts, beliefs, and argumentative inferences. In Cognitive Pluralism, Steven Horst proposes that another sort of unit--a mental mo…
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- 0262333627
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- 1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion
An approach to understanding religion that draws on both humanities and natural science but rejects approaches that employ simple monisms and radical dualisms. In Beyond Heaven and Earth, Gabriel Levy argues that collective religious narratives and beliefs are part of nature; they are the basis for the formation of the narratives and beliefs of individuals. Religion grows out of the universe…
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How knowledge grows :the evolutionary development of scientific practice
"An argument that science is indeed 'socially constructed' but in a way that exposes it to a Darwinian version of variability and selection which ensures its success"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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