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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Modality Modality Bob Hale The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions--are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be exp… OL15586333W
Reasons for belief Reasons for belief Andrew Evan Reisner,Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen "Philosophers have long been concerned about what we know and how we know it. Increasingly, however, a related question has gained prominence in philosophical discussion: what should we believe and w… OL15916791W
Art and Knowledge Art and Knowledge Young, James O. This is an interesting, as well as controversial, exploration of what art is and why it is valuable. Young reflects on the essence of art and argues that it provides insight into human nature. This t… OL16989715W
From knowledge to wisdom From knowledge to wisdom Nicholas Maxwell From Knowledge to Wisdom argues that there is an urgent need, for both intellectual and humanitarian reasons, to bring about a revolution in science and the humanities. The outcome would be a kind o… OL1827165W
Philosophical writings of Peirce Philosophical writings of Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce A collection of essays by the inventor of the philosophical movement of pragmatism, which would later be championed by William James OL1834314W
The Logic of Scientific Discovery The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth c… OL1984582W
Pragmatic reasons Pragmatic reasons Jeremy Randel Koons We daily classify actions by their morality and their voluntariness, and beliefs by their rationality. But in light of persistent skepticism about morality, free will, and (to a lesser extent) episte… OL19896124W
Moral knowledge? Moral knowledge? Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,Mark Timmons In Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology, editors Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons bring together eleven newly written essays by distinguished moral philosophers exploring the … OL20965213W
Through Narcissus' glass darkly Through Narcissus' glass darkly David S. Pacini "Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly presents a genealogy and critique of the ideal of conscience in modern philosophical theology, particularly in the writings of Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant. It shows wh… OL5279857W