Philosophy without footnotes: knowledge & science - 6 serie (25 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - History looks straightforward until someone asks what it means. Why do empires rise and fall Are revolutions caused by ideas, material conditions, institutions, individual decisions-or bad weather arriving at an inconvenient moment Does history move toward progress, repeat itself, or simply acquire a direction when historians begin arranging the evidence History Is a Philosophical Problem explores the questions hidden inside every account of the past. Moving from providence, progress, and historical materialism to causation, contingency, narrative, memory, colonialism, gender, race, and environmental history, it introduces the thinkers and debates that have shaped how history is understood. Drawing on thinkers such as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Benjamin, Popper, Foucault, Hayden White, Edward Said, and Reinhart Koselleck, as well as historians including Fernand Braudel, E. P. Thompson, Carlo Ginzburg, Theda Skocpol, and Natalie Zemon Davis, the book uses concrete historical examples to explore how historians establish facts, explain actions, identify causes, shape narratives, recover excluded voices, and judge people who lived under very different conditions. It also examines the major objections raised against these approaches. The past may be finished. The argument about what it means is not.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What happens when inherited authority is no longer allowed to answer, 'Because it always has' The Enlightenment Mind explores the ideas that transformed debates about knowledge, religion, government, freedom, morality, and human nature. From Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and Spinoza to Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Smith, Wollstonecraft, Condorcet, and Kant, the book follows the arguments that challenged tradition and helped redefine the modern world. It examines skepticism, natural rights, religious toleration, the social contract, separation of powers, moral sentiment, commerce, progress, education, and public reason. It also confronts the Enlightenment's less comfortable contradictions: thinkers defended liberty while living amid slavery, empire, hierarchy, and the political exclusion of women. Universal principles were announced with confidence, then applied with remarkable selectivity. The Enlightenment Mind is a story of philosophers demanding reasons from authority-and discovering that once questioning begins, it becomes very difficult to control. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if the only thing you can know with certainty is that your own experience exists Solipsism Taken Seriously explores one of philosophy's most stubborn problems: how can we justify belief in a world beyond the mind The book follows the skeptical challenge from Descartes' dreams and evil demon to Berkeley's idealism, Hume's doubts about causation, Kant's attempt to rescue objective knowledge, Wittgenstein's attack on radical doubt, and modern thought experiments involving brains in vats, simulations, and philosophical zombies. Along the way, it asks deceptively simple questions. Can perception prove the existence of physical objects How do we know other people are conscious rather than merely behaving as though they are Does the possibility of being wrong undermine knowledge And if solipsism cannot be conclusively disproved, does that make it a serious account of reality-or simply an extraordinarily difficult idea to get rid of Rather than treating solipsism as a bizarre philosophical curiosity, Solipsism Taken Seriously uses it as a way to examine the foundations of knowledge itself: certainty, evidence, perception, inference, other minds, and the limits of what can reasonably be proved.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Science is supposed to be the reliable one. It observes the facts, tests its theories, corrects its errors, and moves steadily toward the truth-at least according to the version found in school textbooks, institutional press releases, and speeches delivered shortly before the evidence becomes complicated. The Restless Philosophy of Science explores what really happens when theories change, experiments fail, experts disagree, and evidence supports more than one explanation. Through famous disputes and scientific revolutions-from phlogiston and planetary motion to evolution, medical evidence, continental drift, replication, and manufactured doubt-the book examines how scientific knowledge is actually made. Why do scientists preserve theories that appear to have been falsified Can observations ever be neutral What makes one explanation better than another Is scientific consensus trustworthy Do social values corrupt objectivity, or help make it possible And if successful theories have repeatedly been replaced, why should we believe the theories accepted today Written with clarity and without unnecessary ceremony, the book introduces the central ideas of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, and other major thinkers without turning the discussion into a procession of important surnames. Abstract questions are grounded in historical cases, contemporary controversies, and the inconvenient details that simplified accounts of 'the scientific method' tend to misplace.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What does it really mean to know something We rely on perception, memory, reason, testimony, experts, institutions, search engines, and artificial intelligence. Yet each can mislead us. Certainty is rare, disagreement is unavoidable, and even a true belief may owe more to luck than to sound judgment. \*Epistemology and the Shape of Truth\* explores the central questions of the philosophy of knowledge. What separates knowledge from belief How much evidence is enough Can we know something while admitting that we might be wrong What should we do when experts disagree, institutions fail, or persuasive explanations connect the wrong dots Drawing on thinkers including Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski, Miranda Fricker, and many others, the book examines perception, memory, skepticism, testimony, justification, intellectual character, social knowledge, misinformation, and the ethics of belief. Classic problems such as the Gettier cases, the skeptical dream, the brain in a vat, the regress of reasons, and peer disagreement are placed alongside contemporary questions about expertise, algorithms, social media, and artificial intelligence.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What does it really mean to know something? We rely on perception, memory, reason, testimony, experts, institutions, search engines, and artificial intelligence. Yet each can mislead us. Certainty is rare, disagreement is unavoidable, and even a true belief may owe more to luck than to sound judgment. *Epistemology and the Shape of Truth* explores the central questions of the philosophy of knowledge. What separates knowledge from belief? How much evidence is enough? Can we know something while admitting that we might be wrong? What should we do when experts disagree, institutions fail, or persuasive explanations connect the wrong dots? Drawing on thinkers including Aristotle, Rene Descartes, David Hume, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski, Miranda Fricker, and many others, the book examines perception, memory, skepticism, testimony, justification, intellectual character, social knowledge, misinformation, and the ethics of belief. Classic problems such as the Gettier cases, the skeptical dream, the brain in a vat, the regress of reasons, and peer disagreement are placed alongside contemporary questions about expertise, algorithms, social media, and artificial intelligence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Science is supposed to be the reliable one. It observes the facts, tests its theories, corrects its errors, and moves steadily toward the truth-at least according to the version found in school textbooks, institutional press releases, and speeches delivered shortly before the evidence becomes complicated. The Restless Philosophy of Science explores what really happens when theories change, experiments fail, experts disagree, and evidence supports more than one explanation. Through famous disputes and scientific revolutions-from phlogiston and planetary motion to evolution, medical evidence, continental drift, replication, and manufactured doubt-the book examines how scientific knowledge is actually made. Why do scientists preserve theories that appear to have been falsified? Can observations ever be neutral? What makes one explanation better than another? Is scientific consensus trustworthy? Do social values corrupt objectivity, or help make it possible? And if successful theories have repeatedly been replaced, why should we believe the theories accepted today? Written with clarity and without unnecessary ceremony, the book introduces the central ideas of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, and other major thinkers without turning the discussion into a procession of important surnames. Abstract questions are grounded in historical cases, contemporary controversies, and the inconvenient details that simplified accounts of "the scientific method" tend to misplace. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the only thing you can know with certainty is that your own experience exists? Solipsism Taken Seriously explores one of philosophy's most stubborn problems: how can we justify belief in a world beyond the mind? The book follows the skeptical challenge from Descartes' dreams and evil demon to Berkeley's idealism, Hume's doubts about causation, Kant's attempt to rescue objective knowledge, Wittgenstein's attack on radical doubt, and modern thought experiments involving brains in vats, simulations, and philosophical zombies. Along the way, it asks deceptively simple questions. Can perception prove the existence of physical objects? How do we know other people are conscious rather than merely behaving as though they are? Does the possibility of being wrong undermine knowledge? And if solipsism cannot be conclusively disproved, does that make it a serious account of reality-or simply an extraordinarily difficult idea to get rid of? Rather than treating solipsism as a bizarre philosophical curiosity, Solipsism Taken Seriously uses it as a way to examine the foundations of knowledge itself: certainty, evidence, perception, inference, other minds, and the limits of what can reasonably be proved. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. History looks straightforward until someone asks what it means. Why do empires rise and fall? Are revolutions caused by ideas, material conditions, institutions, individual decisions-or bad weather arriving at an inconvenient moment? Does history move toward progress, repeat itself, or simply acquire a direction when historians begin arranging the evidence? History Is a Philosophical Problem explores the questions hidden inside every account of the past. Moving from providence, progress, and historical materialism to causation, contingency, narrative, memory, colonialism, gender, race, and environmental history, it introduces the thinkers and debates that have shaped how history is understood. Drawing on thinkers such as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Benjamin, Popper, Foucault, Hayden White, Edward Said, and Reinhart Koselleck, as well as historians including Fernand Braudel, E. P. Thompson, Carlo Ginzburg, Theda Skocpol, and Natalie Zemon Davis, the book uses concrete historical examples to explore how historians establish facts, explain actions, identify causes, shape narratives, recover excluded voices, and judge people who lived under very different conditions. It also examines the major objections raised against these approaches. The past may be finished. The argument about what it means is not. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the only thing you can know with certainty is that your own experience exists? Solipsism Taken Seriously explores one of philosophy's most stubborn problems: how can we justify belief in a world beyond the mind? The book follows the skeptical challenge from Descartes' dreams and evil demon to Berkeley's idealism, Hume's doubts about causation, Kant's attempt to rescue objective knowledge, Wittgenstein's attack on radical doubt, and modern thought experiments involving brains in vats, simulations, and philosophical zombies. Along the way, it asks deceptively simple questions. Can perception prove the existence of physical objects? How do we know other people are conscious rather than merely behaving as though they are? Does the possibility of being wrong undermine knowledge? And if solipsism cannot be conclusively disproved, does that make it a serious account of reality-or simply an extraordinarily difficult idea to get rid of? Rather than treating solipsism as a bizarre philosophical curiosity, Solipsism Taken Seriously uses it as a way to examine the foundations of knowledge itself: certainty, evidence, perception, inference, other minds, and the limits of what can reasonably be proved. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Science is supposed to be the reliable one. It observes the facts, tests its theories, corrects its errors, and moves steadily toward the truth-at least according to the version found in school textbooks, institutional press releases, and speeches delivered shortly before the evidence becomes complicated. The Restless Philosophy of Science explores what really happens when theories change, experiments fail, experts disagree, and evidence supports more than one explanation. Through famous disputes and scientific revolutions-from phlogiston and planetary motion to evolution, medical evidence, continental drift, replication, and manufactured doubt-the book examines how scientific knowledge is actually made. Why do scientists preserve theories that appear to have been falsified? Can observations ever be neutral? What makes one explanation better than another? Is scientific consensus trustworthy? Do social values corrupt objectivity, or help make it possible? And if successful theories have repeatedly been replaced, why should we believe the theories accepted today? Written with clarity and without unnecessary ceremony, the book introduces the central ideas of Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, and other major thinkers without turning the discussion into a procession of important surnames. Abstract questions are grounded in historical cases, contemporary controversies, and the inconvenient details that simplified accounts of "the scientific method" tend to misplace. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What does it really mean to know something? We rely on perception, memory, reason, testimony, experts, institutions, search engines, and artificial intelligence. Yet each can mislead us. Certainty is rare, disagreement is unavoidable, and even a true belief may owe more to luck than to sound judgment. *Epistemology and the Shape of Truth* explores the central questions of the philosophy of knowledge. What separates knowledge from belief? How much evidence is enough? Can we know something while admitting that we might be wrong? What should we do when experts disagree, institutions fail, or persuasive explanations connect the wrong dots? Drawing on thinkers including Aristotle, Rene Descartes, David Hume, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Ernest Sosa, Linda Zagzebski, Miranda Fricker, and many others, the book examines perception, memory, skepticism, testimony, justification, intellectual character, social knowledge, misinformation, and the ethics of belief. Classic problems such as the Gettier cases, the skeptical dream, the brain in a vat, the regress of reasons, and peer disagreement are placed alongside contemporary questions about expertise, algorithms, social media, and artificial intelligence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…