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Modality
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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… |
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Reasons for belief
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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… |
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Art and Knowledge
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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… |
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From knowledge to wisdom
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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… |
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Philosophical writings of Peirce
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Charles Sanders Peirce |
A collection of essays by the inventor of the philosophical movement of pragmatism, which would later be championed by William James |
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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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… |
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Pragmatic reasons
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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… |
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Moral knowledge?
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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 … |
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Through Narcissus' glass darkly
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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… |
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