On Knowing Reality

On Knowing Reality
Author:
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9788120811065

ON KNOWING REALITY is the first English translation with commentary of a crucial chapter of the Bodhisattvabhumi composed in Sanskrit in the late fourth century of the philosopher-sage Asanga founder of the yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism.

Time, Space and Knowledge

Time, Space and Knowledge
Author: Tarthang Tulku
Publisher: Dharma Publications
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1977
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Hailed for its lucid presentation, TSK blends reasoning and experiential inquiry to offer a unique path of transformation. A deeply exhilarating book, TSK gives readers a language to ask the questions that conventional training teaches us to ignore. Thirty-five exercises reunite philosophy with direct experience.

Knowledge and Reality

Knowledge and Reality
Author: Thomas M. Crisp
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2006-07-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1402047339

Alvin Plantinga is one of the leading figures in Anglo-American metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of religion; his work in these areas has been the focus of wide scholarly attention. This collection of essays, all of which were written specifically for this volume in honor of Plantinga’s 70th birthday, ranges broadly over topics in metaphysics and epistemology and includes contributions by some of the best philosophers writing today.

Knowledge, Reality, and Value

Knowledge, Reality, and Value
Author: Michael Huemer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2021-04
Genre:
ISBN:

The world's best introduction to philosophy, Knowledge, Reality, and Value explains basic philosophical problems in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, such as: How can we know about the world outside our minds? Is there a God? Do we have free will? Are there objective values? What distinguishes morally right from morally wrong actions? The text succinctly explains the most important theories and arguments about these things, and it does so a lot less boringly than most books written by professors."My work is all a series of footnotes to Mike Huemer." -Plato"This book is way better than my lecture notes." -Aristotle"When I have a little money, I buy Mike Huemer's books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." -ErasmusContentsPreface Part I: Preliminaries 1. What Is Philosophy? 2. Logic 3. Critical Thinking, 1: Intellectual Virtue 4. Critical Thinking, 2: Fallacies 5. Absolute Truth Part II: Epistemology 6. Skepticism About the External World 7. Global Skepticism vs. Foundationalism 8. Defining "Knowledge" Part III: Metaphysics 9. Arguments for Theism 10. Arguments for Atheism 11. Free Will 12. Personal Identity Part IV: Ethics 13. Metaethics 14. Ethical Theory, 1: Utilitarianism 15. Ethical Theory, 2: Deontology 16. Applied Ethics, 1: The Duty of Charity 17. Applied Ethics, 2: Animal Ethics 18. Concluding Thoughts Appendix: A Guide to Writing GlossaryMichael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, where he has taught since the dawn of time. He is the author of a nearly infinite number of articles in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, in addition to seven other amazing and brilliant books that you should immediately buy.

Reality? Knowledge? Philosophy!

Reality? Knowledge? Philosophy!
Author: Stephen Hetherington
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: PHILOSOPHY
ISBN: 1474469124

This textbook introduction offers a new way of approaching metaphysics and epistemology - via links to ethical and social questions. It asks questions such as: Fundamentally, what are we? And what, if anything, do we know?

When Reality Hits

When Reality Hits
Author: Nancy Barry
Publisher: Brown Books
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781933285887

Graduating from college and starting a career is exciting and scary, all at the same time. You learned a lot in college, but no one class can prepare you for what employers want you to know. Based on twenty-five years? experience in the corporate world, Nancy Barry shares the secrets to success. She will help you meet and exceed your manager's expectations by revealing behaviors that are critically important in the workplace.

The Magic of Reality

The Magic of Reality
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1451675046

The author addresses key scientific questions previously explained by rich mythologies, from the evolution of the first humans and the life cycle of stars to the principles of a rainbow and the origins of the universe.

Shifting Ground

Shifting Ground
Author: Naomi Scheman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199745633

This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epistemology is an essentially foundationalist and hence discredited enterprise; for others-particularly analytic epistemologists--it remains rigorously segregated from political concerns. Scheman makes a compelling case for the necessity of thinking epistemologically in fundamentally altered ways. Arguing that it is an illusion of privilege to think that we can do without usable articulations of concepts such as truth, reality, and objectivity, she maintains (as in the title of one of her essays) that epistemology needs to be "resuscitated" as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. While each essay contributes to a specific conversation, taken together they argue for addressing theoretical questions as they arise concretely. Truth, reality, objectivity, and other concepts that problematically rest on shifting ground are more than philosophical toys, and the ground-shifting these essays enact is a move away from abstruse theorizing-analytic and post-structuralist alike. Following Wittgenstein's injunctions to just look, to attend to the "rough ground" of everyday practices, Scheman argues for finding philosophical insight in such acts of attention and in the difficulties that beset them. These essays are an attempt to grasp something in particular, to get a handle on a set of problems, and collectively they represent a fresh model of passionate philosophical engagement.

Natural Philosophy

Natural Philosophy
Author: Paul Thagard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190678739

--Volume 3. Natural philosophy: from social brains to knowledge, reality, morality, and beauty