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Del 35 - Epistemic Studies
Refurbishing Epistemology
A Meta-Epistemological Framework
AvDominique Kuenzle
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 735 kr
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Even though important developments within 20th and 21st century philosophy have widened the scope of epistemology, this has not yet resulted in a systematic meta-epistemological debate about epistemology’s aims, methods, and criteria of success. Ideas such as the methodology of reflective equilibrium, the proposal to "naturalize" epistemology, constructivist impulses fuelling the "sociology of scientific knowledge", pragmatist calls for taking into account the practical point of epistemic evaluations, as well as feminist criticism of the abstract and individualist assumptions built into traditional epistemology are widely discussed, but they have not typically resulted in the call for, let alone the construction of, a suitable meta-epistemological framework.This book motivates and elaborates such a new meta-epistemology. It provides a pragmatist, social and functionalist account of epistemic states that offers the conceptual space for revised or even replaced epistemic concepts. This is what it means to "refurbish epistemology": The book assesses conceptual tools in relation to epistemology’s functionally defined conceptual space, responsive to both intra-epistemic considerations and political and moral values.
Natural Problem of Consciousness
AvPietro Snider
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 735 kr
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The “Natural Problem of Consciousness” is the problem of understanding why there are presently conscious beings at all. Given a non-reductive naturalist framework taking consciousness as an ontologically subjective biological phenomenon, how can we rationally explain the fact that the actual world has turned out to be one where there are presently living beings that can feel, rather than having developed as a zombie-world in which there would be no conscious experiences of any kind? This book introduces the Natural Problem by relating it to central problems in the philosophy of mind (metaphysical mind-body problem, Hard Problem of consciousness) and emphasizing the distinctive interest of its diachronic dimension. Ranging from philosophy to biology and neuroscience, it offers a thorough analysis aimed at better understanding what could explain why phenomenal consciousness has been preserved throughout evolution by natural selection. This is an original, engaging, and thought provoking philosophical study of a neglected but fundamental question regarding the nature and origin of consciousness.
Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience
Causal Explanations, Mechanisms and Experimental Manipulations
AvLena Kästner
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 735 kr
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Philosophy of Psychology: Causality and Psychological Subject
New Reflections on James Woodward’s Contribution
AvWenceslao J. Gonzalez
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 514 kr
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Del 38 - Epistemic Studies
Philosophy of Psychology: Causality and Psychological Subject
New Reflections on James Woodward’s Contribution
AvWenceslao J. Gonzalez
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
346 kr
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Contemporary philosophy of science analyzes psychology as a science with special features, because this discipline includes some specific philosophical problems – descriptive and normative, structural and dynamic. Some of these are particularly relevant both theoretically (casual explanation) and practically (the configuration of the psychological subject and its relations with psychiatry). Two central aspects in this book are the role of causality, especially conceived as intervention or manipulation, and the characterization of the psychological subject. This requires a clarification of scientific explanations in terms of causality in psychology, because characterizations of causality are quite different in epistemological and ontological terms. One of the most influential views is James Woodward’s approach to causality as intervention, which entails an analysis of its characteristics, new elements and limits. This means taking into account the structural and dynamic aspects included in causal cognition and psychological explanations. Psychology seen as special science also requires us to consider the scientific status of psychology and the psychological subject, which leads to limits of naturalism in psychology.
New Approaches to Scientific Realism
AvWenceslao J. Gonzalez
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 769 kr
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Scientific realism is at the core of the contemporary philosophical debate on science. This book analyzes new versions of scientific realism. It makes explicit the advantages of scientific realism over alternatives and antagonists, contributes to deciding which of the new approaches better meets the descriptive and the prescriptive criteria, and expands the philosophico-methodological field to take in new topics and disciplines.
Realm of Facts
Aspects of Philosophical Realism
AvNicholas Rescher
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 466 kr
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No detailed description available for "The Realm of Facts".
Expressiveness
Perception and Emotions in the Experience of Expressive Objects
AvMarta Benenti
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 427 kr
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No detailed description available for "Expressiveness".
Doing Things Together
A Theory of Skillful Joint Action
AvJudith Martens
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 459 kr
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No detailed description available for "Doing Things Together".
Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem
A Defense of the Objectivity of Scientific Justification
AvSam Mitchell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 427 kr
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No detailed description available for "Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem".
Understanding Physicalism
AvGregor M. Hörzer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 522 kr
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No detailed description available for "Understanding Physicalism".
Experiencing Pain
A Scientific Enigma and Its Philosophical Solution
AvSabrina Coninx
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 522 kr
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Although pain is one of the most fundamental and unique experiences we undergo in everyday life, it also constitutes one of the most enigmatic and frustrating subjects for many scientists. This book provides a detailed analysis of why this issue is grounded in the nature of pain itself. It also offers a philosophically driven solution of how we may still approach pain in a theoretically compelling and practically useful manner. Two main theses are defended: (i) Pain seems inscrutable because there exists no property that is commonly shared by all types of pain and that is at the same time particular to pain, setting it apart from other bodily sensations. This applies irrespective of whether we consider the psychological dimensions, neural networks, causal relations or biological functions of pain. Consequently, it is impossible to refer to ideal far-reaching and ideal distinct generalizations on the matter of pain. (ii) Despite this challenge, by focusing on the resemblance relations that hold across pains, we can generate scientific progress in explaining, predicting and treating pain. In doing so, the book aims to provide a clear conceptual basis for interdisciplinary communication and a useful heuristic for future research.
Context Dependence in Language, Action, and Cognition
AvTadeusz Ciecierski,Paweł Grabarczyk
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 648 kr
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The phenomenon of context dependence is so multifaceted that it is tempting to classify it as hetergenous. It is especially evident in the case of the difference between context dependence as understood in the philosophy of language and context dependence as understood in the philosophy of mind. One of the aims of the present volume is to show that as varied as the phenomenon of context dependence is, the similarities between its different manifestations are profound and undeniable. More importantly, as evidenced in a number of papers presented on the subsequent pages of this volume, a broad perspective on the phenomenon of context dependence helps us to re-apply theories devised for one of the subfields of philosophy to the other subfields. Since the connections and analogies between many uses of contextualism may not be initially obvious, keeping an open perspective and the willingness to learn from the work of others may sometimes be crucial for finding new, satisfactory solutions.
Epistemic Defeat
A Treatment of Defeat as an Independent Phenomenon
AvJan Constantin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 748 kr
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No detailed description available for "Epistemic Defeat".
Self-Fulfilling Science
AvCharles Lowe
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 395 kr
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No detailed description available for "Self-Fulfilling Science".
Talking About Thinking
Language, Thought, and Mentalizing
AvLeda Berio
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 811 kr
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No detailed description available for "Talking About Thinking".
Paradox of False Belief Understanding
The Role of Cognitive and Situational Factors for the Development of Social Cognition
AvJulia Wolf
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 233 kr
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No detailed description available for "The Paradox of False Belief Understanding".
Del 39 - Epistemic Studies
Realm of Facts
Aspects of Philosophical Realism
AvNicholas Rescher
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
236 kr
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Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine how we go about trying to obtain it; they describe the processes and proceedings of rational inquiry. The present work steps back from this to inquire into the limits and limitations of such processes and to identify the assets and the limitabilities of what they are able to supply for us. It examines how knowledge of facts is secured and consolidated as such, and what the resulting information can and cannot provide. It argues that the unavoidable incompleteness of our factual information also endows it with an element of incorrectness. By looking also at the negative side of human inquiry the book’s perspective clarifies the nature of our grip on the facts that constitute our view of the reality of things.
Metaphysics of Bohmian Mechanics
A Comprehensive Guide to the Different Interpretations of Bohmian Ontology
AvVera Matarese
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 750 kr
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No detailed description available for "The Metaphysics of Bohmian Mechanics".
Expressiveness
Perception and Emotions in the Experience of Expressive Objects
AvMarta Benenti
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
222 kr
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A natural landscape can look serene, a shade of colour cheerful and a piece of music might sound heartrending. Why do we ascribe affective qualities to objects that can't entertain psychological states? The capacity that objects, and especially artworks, have to express affective states is a bizarre phenomenon that needs to be clarified in numerous respects. Philosophers are still struggling with the phenomenon of expressiveness being a matter of imagination, perception, or mnemonic association, and usually do not agree on the role that emotions and human bodily expressions play in it. Benenti questions the main theories that populate the aesthetics domain using the tools of philosophy of mind. This study deals with crucial debates concerning seeing-in, cognitive penetration, the relation between phenomenal character and representational content and between emotions and expressions. It aims at providing a viable account of the experience we have of expressive properties by casting light on its fundamentally perceptual nature. The outcome is an empirically informed and critical overview of a topic which has been rather neglected in the philosophy of mind. The book will be of interest to scholars of the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, the cognitive sciences, and psychology.
Doing Things Together
A Theory of Skillful Joint Action
AvJudith Martens
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
291 kr
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To understand many of our everyday joint actions we need a theory of skillful joint action. In everyday contexts we do numerous things together. Philosophers of collective intentionality have wondered how we can distinguish parallel cases from cases where we act together. Often their theories argue in favor of one characteristic, feature, or function, that differentiates the two. This feature then distinguishes parallel actions from joint action. The approach in this book is different. Three claims are developed: (1) There are several functions that help human agents coordinate and act together. (2) This entails that joint action should be understood through these different, interrelated, types of coordination. (3) A multidimensional conceptual space, with three levels of control and coordination, will allow us to connect these different forms of coordination and their interdependencies. This allows us to understand the jointness of an action in a more differentiated and encompassing way. This approach has ramifications for several distinctions that are typically understood to be binary, including those between action and mere bodily movement, joint action and parallel action, and action together and not together.
Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem
A Defense of the Objectivity of Scientific Justification
AvSam Mitchell
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
291 kr
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It is widely believed in philosophy of science that nobody can claim that any verdict of science is forced upon us by the effects of a physical world upon our sense organs and instruments. The Quine-Duhem problem supposedly allows us to resist any conclusion. Views on language aside, Quine is supposed to have shown this decisively. But it is just false. In many scientific examples, there is simply no room to doubt that a particular hypothesis is responsible for a refutation or established by the observations. Fault Tracing shows how to play independently established hypotheses against each other to determine whether an arbitrary hypothesis needs to be altered in the light of (apparently) refuting evidence. It analyses real examples from natural science, as well as simpler cases. It argues that, when scientific theories have a structure that prevents them from using this method, the theory looks wrong, and is subject to serious criticism. This is a new, and potentially far-reaching, theory of empirical justification.
Understanding Physicalism
AvGregor M. Hörzer
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
270 kr
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Physicalism is a metaphysical thesis easily presented in slogan form – there is nothing over and above the physical – but notoriously difficult to formulate precisely. Understanding physicalism combines insights from contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics to present a new account of physical properties and metaphysical dependence and, on this foundation, develop a more rigorous and illuminating formulation of the thesis of physicalism
Del 47 - Epistemic Studies
Epistemic Defeat
A Treatment of Defeat as an Independent Phenomenon
AvJan Constantin
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
270 kr
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No detailed description available for "Epistemic Defeat".
Del 48 - Epistemic Studies
Self-Fulfilling Science
AvCharles Lowe
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
270 kr
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No detailed description available for "Self-Fulfilling Science".
Del 49 - Epistemic Studies
Talking About Thinking
Language, Thought, and Mentalizing
AvLeda Berio
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
243 kr
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No detailed description available for "Talking About Thinking".
Del 50 - Epistemic Studies
Paradox of False Belief Understanding
The Role of Cognitive and Situational Factors for the Development of Social Cognition
AvJulia Wolf
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
208 kr
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No detailed description available for "The Paradox of False Belief Understanding".
Del 52 - Epistemic Studies
Konstitutive Bedingungen Mentaler Repräsentation
AvAdrian Wieczorek
Inbunden, Tyska, 2024
2 077 kr
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Systems, Machines, and Problem-Solving
The Modern Form of Problem-Solving
AvHenri Stephanou
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 012 kr
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The notion of problem solving has become central to science education and the cognitive sciences, but it is still peripheral to many philosophies of knowledge and science. In fact, the term only became popular in the course of the twentieth century, as humanity’s ability to solve theoretical and practical problems grew at a seemingly exponential rate. This book questions both the nature of problem solving and its effectiveness in transforming our human practices. We argue that this is linked to the idea that some of our enquiries can be summarized in systematic procedures. Examples are the proof of a theorem within an axiomatic theory, a production line within an industrial factory, or an administrative procedure within a bureaucratic system. Although such a form has been common in mathematics since antiquity, it was only in modern times that the possibility of being systematic in the natural sciences and technical disciplines was discovered. The emergence of the modern concepts of system and machine was key to this expansion and to the scientific, industrial and digital revolutions. Problem solving thus appears as the fundamental form of the modern concept of knowledge.
Reasoning with Machines
On Programming and the Digital Revolution
AvHenri Stephanou
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 886 kr
Kommande
The effectiveness of computers has fascinated many philosophers, sometimes leading them to bold hypotheses such as the computational theory of mind or even pan-computationalism. Stephanou takes a different approach, starting with the observation that computers are so versatile precisely because they are incomplete machines that need to be programmed in order to perform the tasks assigned to them. He examines programming from the perspective of the human sciences and shows how difficult it is to define. Understanding programming requires analyzing it as a very particular way of solving problems, in which machines are inserted into situations that have been systematically described. The investigation therefore seeks to shed light on the nature of systematic problem solving and its close relationship with the concept of machine. The books offers an entirely new account of computation and of machines in general, one that discards the usual concepts of information and computation in its explanation and grounds it in a novel theory of human inquiry.

Epistemic Studies – serie

Refurbishing Epistemology

Natural Problem of Consciousness

Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience

Philosophy of Psychology: Causality and Psychological Subject

Philosophy of Psychology: Causality and Psychological Subject

New Approaches to Scientific Realism

Realm of Facts

Expressiveness

Doing Things Together

Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem

Understanding Physicalism

Experiencing Pain

Context Dependence in Language, Action, and Cognition

Epistemic Defeat

Self-Fulfilling Science

Talking About Thinking

Paradox of False Belief Understanding

Realm of Facts

Metaphysics of Bohmian Mechanics

Expressiveness

Doing Things Together

Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem

Understanding Physicalism

Epistemic Defeat

Self-Fulfilling Science

Talking About Thinking

Paradox of False Belief Understanding

Konstitutive Bedingungen Mentaler Repräsentation

Systems, Machines, and Problem-Solving

Reasoning with Machines