Epistemology
Opining Beauty Itself
Argues that Plato thinks that ordinary people grapple with the Forms and can make epistemological progress, even if they never achieve knowledge.
Plato's Stranger
Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato's late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner—the other—represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.
One over Many
Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.
God the Created
Develops a creative and provocative new model of God that brings together insights from both process theology and ground-of-being theology.
Making the Case
Analyzes the value of using case-based methodologies to address contemporary social justice issues in philosophy.
Manufactured Uncertainty
Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change.
Epistemic Responsibility
Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.
Being Measured
Advances an interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of truth in terms of accurate measurement.
Hyperthematics
Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.
Atomistic Intuitions
An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.
Partial Truths and Our Common Future
Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.
Entanglements
Presents strikingly original and contemporary answers to the most traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political theory.
Kant and Aristotle
A historical and philosophical reassessment of the impact of Aristotle and early-modern Aristotelianism on the development of Kant’s transcendental philosophy.
Whose Tradition? Which Dao?
Considers the notable similarities between the thought of Confucius and Wittgenstein.
Truth and Interpretation
A resolute defense of philosophy and hermeneutics against the threats of dogmatism and relativism.
Ontological Humility
Explores ontological humility in the history of philosophy, from Descartes to contemporary gender and race theory.
Psychoanalysis at the Limit
Examines the question of science, epistemology, and unconscious experience in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Styles of Thought
Differentiates inquiry from interpretation in order to secure a foundation for truth.
Adorno
Examines the role of experience within Adorno’s philosophy of language and epistemology.
The Science of Knowing
The first English translation of Fichte’s second set of 1804 lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre.
The Gathering of Reason
This second edition of the author's classic study of Kant's First Critique includes a new preface and extensive afterword.
Aftereffects of Knowledge in Modernity
Examines the relations among knowledge, politics, aesthetics, and individuality.
Epistemology
A comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge.
Wittgenstein's Account of Truth
Explores the complex nature of truth in Wittgenstein’s philosophy.
Engendering Rationalities
Cutting edge feminist investigations of rationality.
Selection Theory and Social Construction
Top scholars examine the work of Donald T. Campbell, one of the first to emphasize the social structure of science.
Metaphysics and Its Task
Systematically analyzes the nature of metaphysics.
Knowing and Value
Offers a postmodern theory of knowledge based on an ecological worldview that stresses real relations and the pervasiveness of values.
Transformations in Consciousness
This book presents a philosophy that includes the enlightenment experience--a philosophy grounded on the authority of direct realization resulting from transformation in consciousness.
Reason, Regulation, and Realism
This book develops a new naturalist theory of reason and scientific knowledge from a synthesis of philosophy and the new sciences of complex adaptive systems. In particular, the theory of partially self-organizing ...
Epistemological Issues in Classical Chinese Philosophy
This book shows that classic Chinese philosophy is as rational as Western approaches dealing with the problems of logic, epistemology, language analysis, and linguistic topics from a philosophical point ...
Scientific Discovery
Kantorovich analyzes the notion of discovery. He views the process as inference and questions whether there is logic or method to discovery. He provides an alternative perspective on scientific discovery ...
The Life of Irony and the Ethics of Belief
Wisdo concludes that the fragility of religious belief is due to the unavoidable irony intrinsic to the religious life.
The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy
This book aims to present to western philosophers the most important theme in Islamic epistemology: knowledge by presence, the knowledge that results from immediate and intuitive awarenes, advocated by ...
Rationalized Epistemology
This book examines skeptical problems originally raised by Descartes and Hume and currently discussed in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. It answers the basic ...
Faith and Reason from Plato to Plantinga
This book traces the historical lineages of Alvin Plantinga's religious epistemology from Plato through Augustine and Calvin. It focuses upon this epistemology as a philosophical interpretation of what ...