The Problem of Knowledge

1950-01-01
 |  Philosophy
The Problem of Knowledge

Author: Ernst Cassirer

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN: 0300010982

Category: Philosophy

Page: 356

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"Cassirer employs his remarkable gift of lucidity to explain the major ideas and intellectual issues that emerged in the course of nineteenth century scientific and historical thinking. The translators have done an excellent job in reproducing his clarity in English. There is no better place for an intelligent reader to find out, with a minimum of technical language, what was really happening during the great intellectual movement between the age of Newton and our own."-- New York Times. -- Publisher description.

The Problem of Knowledge

2015-06-05
 |  Philosophy
The Problem of Knowledge

Author: Douglas Clyde Macintosh

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317440352

Category: Philosophy

Page: 526

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Originally published in 1916. This book reviews the common problems of philosophy and then critiques the varied epistemological theories of the time. A theory of knowledge may be either dualistic or monistic and realistic or idealistic. Examining the resulting doctrines at the beginning, this book then goes on to consider mysticism, psychology, logic, consciousness, intellectualism and then scientific method. A fascinating insight into early Twentieth century philosophy.

The Problem of Knowledge

2012-12-06
 |  Philosophy
The Problem of Knowledge

Author: O.A. Johnson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789401016421

Category: Philosophy

Page: 131

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Finding descriptive titles for books devoted to central issues in philosophy can often become a problem; it is very difficult to be original. Thus the title that I have given to this book is far from novel, having already been used several times by other authors. Nevertheless, I think that I can fairly claim to have employed it in a way that no one else has done before. Concerning my subtitle, some comments are in order. I have added it to emphasize my views regarding the nature and scope of epistemology. In particular, I wish to draw attention to the fact that I conceive its subject matter quite broadly. Rather than equating it, as is often done, with "theory of knowledge," I believe that epistemology should concern itself with the philosophical investigation of human belief in general. The two categories of human belief of most importance to the epistemologist are knowledge and what I shall call in the book "reasonable belief. " In my opinion a complete epistemology must take account of both, attempting to resolve the problems that are peculiar to each. For reasons that I give in the book I believe that knowledge and its problems must be the first concern of the epistemologist. Only after he has developed a satisfactory theory of knowledge can he tum, with any hope of success, to the formu lation of a theory of reasonable belief.

Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge

1996-08
 |  Political Science
Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge

Author: Charles Arthur Willard

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 0226898458

Category: Political Science

Page: 408

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In this witty and provocative study of democracy and its critics, Charles Willard debunks liberalism, arguing that its exaggerated ideals of authenticity, unity, and community have deflected attention from the pervasive incompetence of "the rule of experts." He proposes a ground of communication that emphasizes common interests rather than narrow disputes. The problem of "unity" and the public sphere has driven a wedge between libertarians and communitarians. To mediate this conflict, Willard advocates a shift from the discourse of liberalism to that of epistemics. As a means of organizing the ebb and flow of consensus, epistemics regards democracy as a family of knowledge problems—as ways of managing discourse across differences and protecting multiple views. Building a bridge between warring peoples and warring paradigms, this book also reminds those who presume to instruct government that they are obliged to enlighten it, and that to do so requires an enlightened public discourse.

German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge:

2008-10-14
 |  Philosophy
German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge:

Author: Nectarios G. Limnatis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781402088001

Category: Philosophy

Page: 428

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The problem of knowledge in German Idealism has drawn increasing attention. This is the first attempt at a systematic critique that covers all four major figures, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. The book offers a fresh and challenging analysis.

Othello and the Problem of Knowledge

2023-03-16
 |  Philosophy
Othello and the Problem of Knowledge

Author: Richard Gaskin

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000849202

Category: Philosophy

Page: 135

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This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play. Shakespeare’s Othello is often thought to connect with traditional sceptical problems, and in particular with the problem of other minds. In this book, Richard Gaskin argues that the play does indeed connect in interesting—but also in surprising and so far relatively unexplored—ways with traditional epistemological concerns. Shakespeare presupposes a generally Wittgensteinian model of mind as revealed in behaviour, and communication as necessarily successful in general. Gaskin examines different epistemological models of the tragedy, and argues that it is useful to apply materials from Wittgenstein’s On Certainty to the analysis of Othello’s loss of confidence in Desdemona’s fidelity: Othello treats Desdemona’s fidelity as a ‘hinge certainty’, something that is so fundamental to the language-game that abandoning it results—so Wittgenstein predicts—in chaos and madness. The tragedy arises, Gaskin suggests, from treating the wrong kind of thing as a hinge certainty. Othello and the Problem of Knowledge will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of literature, Shakespeare, and Wittgenstein.

Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge

2018-08-16
 |  Literary Criticism
Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge

Author: Antoine Dechêne

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319944692

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 347

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This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.

Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge

1983-01-01
 |  Philosophy
Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge

Author: Charles B. Guignon

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

ISBN: 0915145626

Category: Philosophy

Page: 280

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What Guignon does, very skillfully, is to use the problem of knowledge as a focus for organizing a discussion of Heidegger's thought in its entirety. . . . Places him squarely within the philosophical tradition he struggled to overcome and provides an account of his development from Being and Time to the last writings.

The Problem of Knowledge

1956
 |  Knowledge, Sociology of
The Problem of Knowledge

Author: Alfred Jules Ayer

Publisher: Penguin Group

ISBN: UCAL:B4244677

Category: Knowledge, Sociology of

Page: 280

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In this book, the author of "Language, Truth and Logic" tackles one of the central issues of philosophy - how we can know anything - by setting out all the sceptic's arguments and trying to counter them one by one

The Problem of the Idea of Culture in John Paul II

2019-11-13
 |  Philosophy
The Problem of the Idea of Culture in John Paul II

Author: John Corrigan

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9781498583183

Category: Philosophy

Page: 255

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In The Problem of the Idea of Culture in John Paul II: Exposing the Disruptive Agency of the Philosophy of Karol Wojtyła, John Corrigan provides a new lens with which to view and understand the philosophy of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. He exposes Wojtyła as a major player in contemporary philosophical debates. The work reformulates the “problem of experience” in light of the questions surrounding our idea of culture. Corrigan argues that for Wojtyła the drama of the “problem of experience” manifests in the apparently divergent accounts of the meaning of human experience as presented by the philosophies of being and of consciousness. Solving this conundrum results in an idea of the person capable of explaining human experience in relation to human culture,unfolding the experiences of self-knowledge, conscience, and the ontic-causal relationship of the person to human culture. The first part of the book concerns formal considerations regarding the constitutive aspects of Wojtyła’s approach, while the second part deals with pragmatic considerations drawn from his comments on culture.

Epistemological and Social Problems of the Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century

2012-12-06
 |  Philosophy
Epistemological and Social Problems of the Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century

Author: H.N. Jahnke

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789400984141

Category: Philosophy

Page: 430

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I. Some Characteristic Features of the Passage From the 18th to the 19th Century 1. The following notes grew out of reflections which first led us to send out invitations to, and call for papers for, an interdisciplinary workshop, which took place in Bielefeld from 27th to 30th November, 1979. The status and character of this preface is therefore somewhat ambiguous: on the one hand it does not comment extensively on the articles to follow, on the other hand it could not have been conceived and written in the way it was without knowledge of all the contributions to this volum- which contains revised editions of papers for the workshop - nor without the cooperation of the participants in the above mentioned symposium. Furthermore, although the following may sound slightly programmatic and summary, we hope that it will be sufficiently explicit to provide some key words and concepts useful for further scholarly work. Perhaps the most important result of our efforts is the very structure of these notes: it is aimed at providing methodological orientations for the investigation of what turned out to be a very peculiar period in the history of science. xi H. N. Jahnke and M. Otte (eds.), Epistemological and Social Problems of the Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century, xi-xlii. Copyright © 1981 by D. Reidel Publishing Company. xii H. N. JAHNKE ET AL.

Judgment, Rhetoric, and the Problem of Incommensurability

2001
 |  Comparison (Philosophy)
Judgment, Rhetoric, and the Problem of Incommensurability

Author: Nola J. Heidlebaugh

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

ISBN: 1570034001

Category: Comparison (Philosophy)

Page: 196

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In an age of diversity and pluralism, asks Hiedlebaugh (communication studies, Oswego State U. of New York), how can people talk productively about those issues that most divide them. Two main sub- questions generated by her investigation are how people can reason together to make good decisions when standards for what counts as reasonable vary profoundly, and how can they know how to produce good rhetoric when standards for what counts as good are shifting. c. Book News Inc.