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51 produkter
Understanding How Science Explains the World
Av Kevin McCain
Häftad, 2022
206 kr
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All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whether it can be made to happen or not happen, and so on. In short, what we want are explanations. Asking and answering explanatory questions lies at the …
Uncertainty
How It Makes Science Advance
Av Kostas Kampourakis, Kevin McCain
Inbunden, 2019
461 kr
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Scientific knowledge is the most solid and robust kind of knowledge that humans have because of the self-correcting character inherent in its own processes. Nevertheless, anti-evolutionists, climate denialists, and anti-vaxxers, among others, question some of the best-established scientific …
Uncertainty
How It Makes Science Advance
Av Kevin McCain, Kostas Kampourakis
E-bok, 2019
343 kr
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Scientific knowledge is the most solid and robust kind of knowledge that humans have because of the self-correcting character inherent in its own processes. Nevertheless, anti-evolutionists, climate denialists, and anti-vaxxers, among others, question some of the best-established scientific …
Uncertainty
How It Makes Science Advance
Av Kevin McCain, Kostas Kampourakis
E-bok, 2019
343 kr
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Scientific knowledge is the most solid and robust kind of knowledge that humans have because of the self-correcting character inherent in its own processes. Nevertheless, anti-evolutionists, climate denialists, and anti-vaxxers, among others, question some of the best-established scientific …
Best Explanations
New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation
E-bok, 2017
1100 kr
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Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous. Not only are rigorous inferences to the best explanation used pervasively in the sciences, this kind of reasoning is common in everyday life. Despite its widespread use, inference to the best explanation is still in need of precise formulation, and it remains …
Appearance and Explanation
Phenomenal Explanationism in Epistemology
E-bok, 2021
1082 kr
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Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way gives one prima facie justification for believing that they are that way) is a promising, and popular, internalist theory of epistemic justification. Despite its popularity, it faces numerous objections and …
Appearance and Explanation
Phenomenal Explanationism in Epistemology
E-bok, 2021
1082 kr
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Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way gives one prima facie justification for believing that they are that way) is a promising, and popular, internalist theory of epistemic justification. Despite its popularity, it faces numerous objections and …
Appearance and Explanation
Phenomenal Explanationism in Epistemology
Inbunden, 2021
1179 kr
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Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way gives one prima facie justification for believing that they are that way) is a promising, and popular, internalist theory of epistemic justification. Despite its popularity, it faces numerous objections and …
Best Explanations
New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation
Av Kevin McCain, Kevin McCain m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1233 kr
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Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous. Not only are rigorous inferences to the best explanation used pervasively in the sciences, this kind of reasoning is common in everyday life. Despite its widespread use, inference to the best explanation is still in need of precise formulation, and it remains …
Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Problems
Av Kevin McCain
Inbunden, 2025
1105 kr
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Phenomenal Explanationism is a powerful new theory of epistemic justification that combines an explanationist conception of evidential support with an appearance-based or phenomenal conception of evidence. According to PE, epistemic justification is a matter of what best explains our evidence, …
Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Problems
Av Kevin McCain
E-bok, 2025
990 kr
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Phenomenal Explanationism is a powerful new theory of epistemic justification that combines an explanationist conception of evidential support with an appearance-based or phenomenal conception of evidence. According to PE, epistemic justification is a matter of what best explains our evidence, …
Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Problems
Av Kevin McCain
E-bok, 2025
990 kr
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Phenomenal Explanationism is a powerful new theory of epistemic justification that combines an explanationist conception of evidential support with an appearance-based or phenomenal conception of evidence. According to PE, epistemic justification is a matter of what best explains our evidence, …
Epistemic Duties
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior. But are there epistemic constraints on belief? Are there any requirements arising from intellectual considerations alone? This volume includes original essays written by top epistemologists that address this and closely …
Epistemic Duties
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior. But are there epistemic constraints on belief? Are there any requirements arising from intellectual considerations alone? This volume includes original essays written by top epistemologists that address this and closely …
Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments
50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments
Av Kevin McCain
Häftad, 2021
475 kr
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In this new kind of entrée to contemporary epistemology, Kevin McCain presents fifty of the field’s most important puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Assuming no familiarity with epistemology from the reader, McCain titles each case with a memorable name, describes the details of the …
Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments
Av Kevin McCain
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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In this new kind of entrée to contemporary epistemology, Kevin McCain presents fifty of the field’s most important puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Assuming no familiarity with epistemology from the reader, McCain titles each case with a memorable name, describes the details of the …
Epistemic Dilemmas
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles.It seems plausible that there can be "no win" moral situations in which no matter what one does one fails some moral obligation. Is …
Epistemic Dilemmas
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles.It seems plausible that there can be "no win" moral situations in which no matter what one does one fails some moral obligation. Is …
Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification
Av Kevin McCain
Inbunden, 2014
2525 kr
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Evidentialism is a popular theory of epistemic justification, yet, as early proponents of the theory Earl Conee and Richard Feldman admit, there are many elements that must be developed before Evidentialism can provide a full account of epistemic justification, or well-founded belief. It is the aim …
Epistemic Duties
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Scott Stapleford, Kevin McCain
E-bok, 2020
745 kr
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There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior. But are there epistemic constraints on belief? Are there any requirements arising from intellectual considerations alone? This volume includes original essays written by top epistemologists that address this and closely …
Epistemic Duties
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Scott Stapleford, Kevin McCain
E-bok, 2020
745 kr
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There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior. But are there epistemic constraints on belief? Are there any requirements arising from intellectual considerations alone? This volume includes original essays written by top epistemologists that address this and closely …
Red Rising and Philosophy
Break the Chains!
Av Courtland Lewis, Kevin McCain
Häftad, 2016
293 kr
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Red Rising and Philosophy has gathered together a crew of the wisest Helldivers philosophy can offer. Could humanity's love of physical enhancements cause its extinction? Do people doom humanity by trying to all be the same? Can a person love someone, while at the same time wanting that person …
Red Rising and Philosophy
Break the Chains!
Av Kevin McCain, Courtland Lewis
E-bok, 2016
239 kr
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Red Rising and Philosophy has gathered together a crew of the wisest Helldivers philosophy can offer. Could humanity''s love of physical enhancements cause its extinction? Do people doom humanity by trying to all be the same? Can a person love someone, while at the same time wanting that person …
Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments
Av Kevin McCain
E-bok, 2021
485 kr
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In this new kind of entrée to contemporary epistemology, Kevin McCain presents fifty of the field’s most important puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Assuming no familiarity with epistemology from the reader, McCain titles each case with a memorable name, describes the details of the …
Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments
Av Kevin McCain
E-bok, 2021
485 kr
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In this new kind of entrée to contemporary epistemology, Kevin McCain presents fifty of the field’s most important puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Assuming no familiarity with epistemology from the reader, McCain titles each case with a memorable name, describes the details of the …
Epistemic Dilemmas
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Matthias Steup, Scott Stapleford m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
762 kr
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This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles. It seems plausible that there can be "no win" moral situations in which no matter what one does one fails some moral obligation. Is …
Epistemic Dilemmas
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Matthias Steup, Scott Stapleford m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
762 kr
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This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles. It seems plausible that there can be "no win" moral situations in which no matter what one does one fails some moral obligation. Is …
Seemings
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Matthias Steup, Scott Stapleford m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
745 kr
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This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings. It features original essays by leading epistemologists on the nature and epistemic import of seemings and intuitions. Seemings and intuitions are often appealed to in philosophical theorizing. In fact, epistemological theories such …
Seemings
New Arguments, New Angles
Av Matthias Steup, Scott Stapleford m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
745 kr
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This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings. It features original essays by leading epistemologists on the nature and epistemic import of seemings and intuitions. Seemings and intuitions are often appealed to in philosophical theorizing. In fact, epistemological theories such …
Understanding How Science Explains the World
Av Kevin McCain
E-bok, 2022
212 kr
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All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whether it can be made to happen or not happen, and so on. In short, what we want are explanations. Asking and answering explanatory questions lies at the …
