A Modest Certainty

A Modest Certainty
Author: Frank D. Schubert
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0761858989

The central problem of philosophy is the problem of certainty. What does it mean to be sure? Are there ideas beyond the possibility of error or refutation? What does it mean for a notion to be incorrigible? In this book, Frank D. Schubert squarely addresses the question of whether there is a single standard of certainty that can be applied to such disparate areas as logic, mathematics, politics, religion, familial/tribal commitments, and science. Schubert proposes a common standard for assessing certainty — the certainty of knowing one’s own personal proper name — as a standard that can establish common ground within each widely disparate area. The result is a new “philosophy in a grand manner” and a powerful ethical proposal for our time.

Church Dogmatics

Church Dogmatics
Author: Karl Barth
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2004-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567090324

Described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss pastor and theologian, Karl Barth, continues to be a major influence on students, scholars and preachers today. Barth's theology found its expression mainly through his closely reasoned fourteen-part magnum opus, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik. Having taken over 30 years to write, the Church Dogmatics is regarded as one of the most important theological works of all time, and represents the pinnacle of Barth's achievement as a theologian.

Natalia Ginzburg

Natalia Ginzburg
Author: Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802047229

This collection brings together a variety of critical perspectives on Ginzburg's work for an English-speaking audience. What emerges is a nuanced and complex portrait of Ginzburg and her work.

Criminological Theory

Criminological Theory
Author: J. Robert Lilly
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 691
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1506387284

"The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it easier for students to relate theory to reality." —Mirlinda Ndrecka, Ph.D., University of New Haven Updated Edition of a Best-Seller! Offering a rich introduction to how scholars analyze crime, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences moves readers beyond a commonsense knowledge of crime to a deeper understanding of the importance of theory in shaping crime control policies. The Seventh Edition of the authors’ clear, accessible, and thoroughly revised text covers traditional and contemporary theory within a larger sociological and historical context. It includes new sources that assess the empirical status of the major theories, as well as updated coverage of crime control policies and their connection to criminological theory.

Antifascisms

Antifascisms
Author: David Ward
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838636763

This book is an in-depth analysis of three of the most crucial years in twentieth-century Italian history, the years 1943-46. After more than two decades of a Fascist regime and a disastrous war experience during which Italy changed sides, these years saw the laying of the political and cultural foundations for what has since become known as Italy's First Republic. Drawing on texts from the literature, film, journalism, and political debate of the period, Antifascisms offers a thorough survey of the personalities and positions that informed the decisions taken in this crucial phase of modern Italian history.

Church Dogmatics Study Edition 14

Church Dogmatics Study Edition 14
Author: Karl Barth
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567450570

The most important theological work of the 20th century in a new edition - now available in individual volumes.

Idealization in Epistemology

Idealization in Epistemology
Author: Associate Professor of Philosophy Daniel Greco
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2023-08-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198860552

It's standard in epistemology to approach questions about knowledge and rational belief using idealized, simplified models. But while the practice of constructing idealized models in epistemology is old, metaepistemological reflection on that practice is not. Greco argues that the fact that epistemologists build idealized models isn't merely a metaepistemological observation that can leave first-order epistemological debates untouched. Rather, once we view epistemology through the lens of idealization and model-building, the landscape looks quite different. Constructing idealized models is likely the best epistemologists can do. Once one starts using epistemological categories like belief, knowledge, and confidence, the realm of idealization and model-building is entered. We can object to a model of knowledge by pointing to a better model, but in the absence of a better model, the fact that a framework for epistemologizing theorizing involves simplifications, approximations, and other inaccuracies-the fact of its status as an idealized model-is not in itself objectionable. Once we accept that theorizing in epistemological terms is inescapably idealized, a number of intriguing possibilities open up. Greco defends a package of epistemological views that might otherwise have looked indefensibly dismissive of our cognitive limitations-a package according to which we know a wide variety of facts with certainty, including what our evidence is, what we know and don't know, and what follows from our knowledge.

A Modest Realism

A Modest Realism
Author: Joe Frank Jones
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780761819950

What do words have to do with the world? Do our concepts make the world the way it is for us? If concepts do make the world what it is for us, is this making complete, without residue of a natural world, and how does this making occur? Is there a real world to which word and concepts refer that anchors their meaning? What is the role of the imagination in making words have meaning? Is understanding embodied, conceptual, or both? A Modest Realism explores these questions through its examination of the foundations of articulatable experience. It joins language and experience in a non-essentialist realism, while avoiding the non sequiturs and practical impossibilities of most twentieth century postmodern philosophers.

Geometry and Induction

Geometry and Induction
Author: Jean Nicod
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1970
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780520016897