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Epistemic Justification
Essays in the Theory of Knowledge
Inbunden, 1989
1655 kr
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Epistemic Justification collects twelve distinguished and influential essays in epistemology by William P. Alston taken from a body of work spanning almost two decades. They represent the gradual development of Alston's thought in epistemology.He concentrates on topics that are central to …
Perceiving God
The Epistemology of Religious Experience
Inbunden, 1991
746 kr
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In this clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience, William P. Alston argues that the perception of God—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct …
Reliability of Sense Perception
Inbunden, 1993
746 kr
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Why suppose that sense perception is an accurate source of information about the physical environment? More generally, is it possible to demonstrate that our basic ways of forming beliefs are reliable? In this book, a leading analytic philosopher confronts this classic problem through detailed …
Realist Conception of Truth
Inbunden, 1996
717 kr
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One of the most important Anglo-American philosophers of our time here joins the current philosophical debate about the nature of truth. William P. Alston formulates and defends a realist conception of truth, which he calls alethic realism (from "aletheia," Greek for truth). This idea holds that …
Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning
Inbunden, 2000
1221 kr
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What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that William P. Alston, one of America's most distinguished and prolific analytic philosophers, addresses in this major contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer focuses on the given sentence's potential to play …
Realism and Antirealism
Inbunden, 2002
1655 kr
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Throughout the past century, a debate has raged over the thesis of realism and its alternatives. Realism—the seemingly commonsensical view that all or most of what we encounter in the world exists and is what it is independently of human thought—has been vigorously denied by such prominent …
Beyond "Justification"
Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation
Inbunden, 2004
717 kr
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Much of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth century focused on the conditions for beliefs being "justified." In a book that seeks to shift the ground of debate within theory of knowledge, William P. Alston finds that the century-long search for a correct account of the …
Beyond "Justification"
Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation
Häftad, 2006
490 kr
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Much of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth century focused on the conditions for beliefs being "justified." In a book that seeks to shift the ground of debate within theory of knowledge, William P. Alston finds that the century-long search for a correct account of the …
Reliability of Sense Perception
Häftad, 1996
447 kr
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Why suppose that sense perception is an accurate source of information about the physical environment? More generally, is it possible to demonstrate that our basic ways of forming beliefs are reliable? In this book, a leading analytic philosopher confronts this classic problem through detailed …
Perceiving God
The Epistemology of Religious Experience
Häftad, 1993
447 kr
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In this clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience, William P. Alston argues that the perception of God—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct …
Realist Conception of Truth
Häftad, 1997
490 kr
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One of the most important Anglo-American philosophers of our time here joins the current philosophical debate about the nature of truth. William P. Alston formulates and defends a realist conception of truth, which he calls alethic realism (from "aletheia," Greek for truth). This idea holds that …
Realism and Antirealism
Häftad, 2002
490 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Throughout the past century, a debate has raged over the thesis of realism and its alternatives. Realism—the seemingly commonsensical view that all or most of what we encounter in the world exists and is what it is independently of human thought—has been vigorously denied by such prominent …
Epistemic Justification
Essays in the Theory of Knowledge
Häftad, 1989
547 kr
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Epistemic Justification collects twelve distinguished and influential essays in epistemology by William P. Alston taken from a body of work spanning almost two decades. They represent the gradual development of Alston's thought in epistemology.He concentrates on topics that are central to …
Gott wahrnehmen
Die Erkenntnistheorie religiöser Erfahrung
E-bok, 2013
999 kr
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Mit diesem klaren und provokativen erkenntnistheoretischen Ansatz im Bereich der Religionsphilosophie argumentiert William P. Alston, dass die Wahrnehmung Gottes eines der wichtigsten Beiträge zu den Gründen des religiösen Glaubens liefert. Dabei spielt sein Begriff des direkten erfahrungsmäßigen …
