Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment

Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment
Author: Michael A. Bishop
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195162295

Bishop & Trout present a new approach to epistemoloy, aiming to liberate the subject from the 'scholastic' debates of analytic philosophy. Rather, they wish to treat epistemology as a branch of the philosophy of science.

Epistemology and Cognition

Epistemology and Cognition
Author: Alvin I. Goldman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1986
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674258969

Against the traditional view, Alvin Goldman argues that logic, probability theory, and linguistic analysis cannot by themselves delineate principles of rationality or justified belief. The mind's operations must be taken into account.

A Companion to Applied Philosophy

A Companion to Applied Philosophy
Author: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2016-11-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1118869133

Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy provides an overview of these various applied philosophy developments, highlighting similarities and differences between various areas of applied philosophy, and examining the very nature of this topic. It is an area to which many of the towering figures in the history of philosophy have contributed, and this timely Companion demonstrates how various historical contributions are actually contributions within applied philosophy, even if they are not traditionally seen as such. The Companion contains 42 essays covering major areas of philosophy; the articles themselves are all original contributions to the literature and represent the state of the art on this topic, as well as offering a map to the current debates.

The Judicial Assessment of Expert Evidence

The Judicial Assessment of Expert Evidence
Author: Déirdre Dwyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 052150970X

Deirdre Dwyer examines how a court can decide when to accept an expert's opinion, focusing on English civil justice.

Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency

Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency
Author: Patrick J. Reider
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1783483490

The field of epistemology is undergoing significant changes. Primary among these changes is an ever growing appreciation for the role social influences play on one’s ability to acquire and assess knowledge claims. Arguably, social epistemology’s greatest influence on traditional epistemology is its stance on de-centralizing the epistemic agent. In other words, its practitioners have actively sought to dispel the claim that individuals can be solely responsible for the assessment, acquisition, dissemination, and retention of knowledge. This view opposes traditional epistemology, which tends to focus on the individual’s capacity to form and access knowledge claims independent of his or her relationship to society. Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency is an essential resource for academics and students who ask, “in what manner does society engender its members with the ability to act as epistemic agents, what actions constitute epistemic agency, and what type of beings can be epistemic agents?”

Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401204365

Much has happened in the field of contemporary epistemology since Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized” was published in 1969. Even before Ronald Giere published his article “Philosophy of Science Naturalized,” naturalized philosophy of science had been influenced by the so-called historical approach. Kuhm, Lakatos, Feyerabend and Laudan all contributed importantly to this trend. In this light it has emerged, without a doubt, that philosophy of science is closely related to epistemology. This volume explores some of the relevant relations and will be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science.

The Philosophy of Money and Finance

The Philosophy of Money and Finance
Author: Joakim Sandberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2024-01-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192898809

The Philosophy of Money and Finance presents sixteen original essays providing a comprehensive introduction to questions concerning the nature of money and monetary value, the epistemology of markets, and the ethics of financial systems.

The Routledge Companion to Epistemology

The Routledge Companion to Epistemology
Author: Sven Bernecker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 938
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136882014

Epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, is at the core of many of the central debates and issues in philosophy, interrogating the notions of truth, objectivity, trust, belief and perception. The Routledge Companion to Epistemology provides a comprehensive and the up-to-date survey of epistemology, charting its history, providing a thorough account of its key thinkers and movements, and addressing enduring questions and contemporary research in the field. Organized thematically, the Companion is divided into ten sections: Foundational Issues, The Analysis of Knowledge, The Structure of Knowledge, Kinds of Knowledge, Skepticism, Responses to Skepticism, Knowledge and Knowledge Attributions, Formal Epistemology, The History of Epistemology, and Metaepistemological Issues. Seventy-eight chapters, each between 5000 and 7000 words and written by the world’s leading epistemologists, provide students with an outstanding and accessible guide to the field. Designed to fit the most comprehensive syllabus in the discipline, this text will be an indispensible resource for anyone interested in this central area of philosophy. The Routledge Companion to Epistemology is essential reading for students of philosophy.

Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology: A Montessori Perspective

Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology: A Montessori Perspective
Author: Patrick Frierson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 135001883X

Drawing on the work of Maria Montessori and contemporary virtue epistemologists such as Linda Zagzebski and Jason Baehr, Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology presents a new interpretation of the nature of intellectual agency and its associated virtues. Focusing on Montessori's interpretation of specific virtues including sensory attentiveness, intellectual love and intellectual humility, it discusses why these are virtues, why one can be held responsible for them, and how they relate to each other. Moreover, it considers pedagogical implications of considering these capacities to be virtues. Intellectual Agency and Virtue Epistemology not only reveals the value of seeing Montessori as a virtue epistemologist, it encourages educationalists to take seriously the cultivation of intellectual virtues as an important part of the education of children.

Epistemic Evaluation

Epistemic Evaluation
Author: David K. Henderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019964263X

Twelve leading philosophers explore and apply a particular methodology in epistemology, which might be called purposeful epistemology. The idea is that considerations about the point and purpose of our concepts (or epistemic norms) promise to yield important insights for epistemological theorizing.