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The Structure of Empirical Knowledge

Author : Laurence BonJour
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674262158
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Empirical Knowledge written by Laurence BonJour and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How must our knowledge be systematically organized in order to justify our beliefs? There are two options—the solid securing of the ancient foundationalist pyramid or the risky adventure of the new coherentist raft. For the foundationalist like Descartes each piece of knowledge can be stacked to build a pyramid. Not so, argues Laurence BonJour. What looks like a pyramid is in fact a dead end, a blind alley. Better by far to choose the raft. Here BonJour sets out the most extensive antifoundationalist argument yet developed. The first part of the book offers a systematic exposition of foundationalist views and formulates a general argument to show that no variety of foundationalism provides an acceptable account of empirical justification. In the second part he explores a coherence theory of empirical knowledge and argues that a defensible theory must incorporate an adequate conception of observation. The book concludes with an account of the correspondence theory of empirical truth and an argument that systems of empirical belief which satisfy the coherentist standard of justification are also likely to be true.

Empirical Knowledge

Author : Alan H. Goldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520076488
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Knowledge written by Alan H. Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Goldman's] theory of knowing is novel, powerful and yet fairly simple. His attack on skepticism is as persuasive and as well worked-out as any I know."--William Gregory Lycan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "In both conception and execution this is a fine book. . . . Goldman's treatment is fresh and invigorating."--Frederick Schmitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "[Goldman's] theory of knowing is novel, powerful and yet fairly simple. His attack on skepticism is as persuasive and as well worked-out as any I know."--William Gregory Lycan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Empirical Knowledge

Author : Paul K. Moser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Knowledge written by Paul K. Moser and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition provides an excellent overview of the field of epistemology. Revised sections on justification and knowledge and the Gettier Problem, and new sections on skepticism and naturalized epistemology, present the most important foundational and recent work in the theory of knowledge. Organized specifically with courses in mind, Empirical Knowledge is accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.

Ways of Making and Knowing

Author : Harold J. Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941792117
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Ways of Making and Knowing written by Harold J. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship between making objects and knowing nature in Europe from the mid-15th to mid-19th centuries

The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge

Author : A J (Alfred Jules) 1910-1989 Ayer
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014094056
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge written by A J (Alfred Jules) 1910-1989 Ayer and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Structure of Empirical Knowledge

Author : Laurence BonJour
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674843813
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Empirical Knowledge written by Laurence BonJour and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether empirical knowledge is best conceived in terms of a foundationalist or coherentist model is a significant topic of current epistemic debate. BonJour sets out the most extensive antifoundationalist argument yet developed. -- Publisher's description.

Grounding Concepts

Author : C. S. Jenkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191552402
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Grounding Concepts written by C. S. Jenkins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounding Concepts tackles the issue of arithmetical knowledge, developing a new position which respects three intuitions which have appeared impossible to satisfy simultaneously: a priorism, mind-independence realism, and empiricism. Drawing on a wide range of philosophical influences, but avoiding unnecessary technicality, a view is developed whereby arithmetic can be known through the examination of empirically grounded concepts. These are concepts which, owing to their relationship to sensory input, are non-accidentally accurate representations of the mind-independent world. Examination of such concepts is an armchair activity, but enables us to recover information which has been encoded in the way our concepts represent. Emphasis on the key role of the senses in securing this coding relationship means that the view respects empiricism, but without undermining the mind-independence of arithmetic or the fact that it is knowable by means of a special armchair method called conceptual examination. A wealth of related issues are covered during the course of the book, including definitions of realism, conditions on knowledge, the problems with extant empiricist approaches to the a priori, mathematical explanation, mathematical indispensability, pragmatism, conventionalism, empiricist criteria for meaningfulness, epistemic externalism and foundationalism. The discussion encompasses themes from the work of Locke, Kant, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Quine, McDowell, Field, Peacocke, Boghossian, and many others.

Moral Knowledge

Author : Sarah McGrath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192527967
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Moral Knowledge written by Sarah McGrath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds, in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in fundamental moral convictions? And what are the associated problems of using testimony as a source of moral knowledge? Sarah McGrath provides novel answers to these questions and many others, as she investigates the possibilities, sources, and characteristic vulnerabilities of moral knowledge. She also considers whether there is anything wrong with simply outsourcing moral questions to a moral expert and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the method of equilibrium as an account of how we make up our mind about moral questions. Ultimately, McGrath concludes that moral knowledge can be acquired in any of the ways in which we acquire ordinary empirical knowledge. Our efforts to acquire and preserve such knowledge, she argues, are subject to frustration in all of the same ways that our efforts to acquire and preserve ordinary empirical knowledge are.

The Empirical Empire

Author : Arndt Brendecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110395819
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Empirical Empire written by Arndt Brendecke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this knowledge was created in the first place – but then hardly used. And he looks into the question of what political effects such a policy of knowledge had for Spain’s colonial rule.

Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826513625
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality written by John R. Shook and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing revival of interest in the work of American philosopher and pragmatist John Dewey has given rise to a burgeoning flow of commentaries, critical editions, and reevaluations of Dewey's writings. While previous studies of Dewey's work have taken either a historical or a topical focus, Shook offers an innovative, organic approach to understanding Dewey and eloquently shows that Dewey's instrumentalism grew seamlessly out of his idealism. He argues that most current scholarship operates under a mistaken impression of Dewey's early philosophical positions and convincingly demonstrates a number of key points: that Dewey's metaphysical empiricism remained more indebted to Kant and Hegel than is commonly supposed; that Dewey owed more to the influence of Wundt than is commonly believed; that the influence of Peirce and James was not as significant for the development of Dewey's theories of mind and truth as has been argued in the past; and that Dewey's pragmatic theory of knowledge never really abandoned idealism. Shook's exposition of the unity of Dewey's thought challenges a large scholarly industry devoted to suppressing or explaining away the consistency between Dewey's early thought and his later work. In every respect, Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality is a provocative and engaging study that will occupy a unique niche in this field. It is certain to stimulate discussion and controversy, forcing Dewey traditionalists out of habitual modes of thought and transforming our conventional understanding of the development of classical American philosophy.

Lecture Notes on Empirical Software Engineering

Author : Natalia Juristo
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789812795588
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Lecture Notes on Empirical Software Engineering written by Natalia Juristo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical verification of knowledge is one of the foundations for developing any discipline. As far as software construction is concerned, the empirically verified knowledge is not only sparse but also not very widely disseminated among developers and researchers. This book aims to spread the idea of the importance of empirical knowledge in software development from a highly practical viewpoint. It has two goals: (1) Define the body of empirically validated knowledge in software development so as to advise practitioners on what methods or techniques have been empirically analysed and what the results were; (2) as empirical tests have traditionally been carried out by universities or research centres, propose techniques applicable by industry to check on the software development technologies they use. Contents: Limitations of Empirical Testing Technique Knowledge (N Juristo et al.); Replicated Studies: Building a Body of Knowledge about Software Reading Techniques (F Shull et al.); Combining Data from Reading Experiments in Software Inspections OCo A Feasibility Study (C Wholin et al.); External Experiments OCo A Workable Paradigm for Collaboration Between Industry and Academia (F Houdek); (Quasi-)Experimental Studies in Industrial Settings (O Laitenberger & D Rombach); Experimental Validation of New Software Technology (M V Zelkowitz et al.). Readership: Researchers, academics and professionals in software engineering."

Empirical Paradox, Complexity Thinking and Generating New Kinds of Knowledge

Author : Paolo Grigolini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527535525
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Paradox, Complexity Thinking and Generating New Kinds of Knowledge written by Paolo Grigolini and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is another world war inevitable? The answer is a resounding “yes” if we continue to think in terms of “either/or” outcomes. Adversaries think in such terms, you either get what you want, or you do not. Can a different way of thinking produce a different outcome? This book shows that the consistency demanded by the linear, logical either/or thinking is disrupted by paradox, whose resolution forces a consequent decision: war or peace, with no middle ground. If this were the only way of thinking then a person would be either a protagonist or an antagonist, but a person can be both, either, or neither; this opens the door to novel solutions. This is “both/and” thinking, which the book shows can be achieved by a dynamic resolution of paradox. Thus, a basically selfish individual can also be a hero; a consequence of the complexity of being human.

Empirical Knowledge

Author : Alan H. Goldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Knowledge written by Alan H. Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Knowledge and Its Place in Nature

Author : Hilary Kornblith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199246319
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Its Place in Nature written by Hilary Kornblith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have traditionally used conceptual analysis to investigate knowledge. Hilary Kornblith argues that this is misguided: it is not the concept of knowledge that we should be investigating, but knowledge itself, a robust natural phenomenon, suitable for scientific study. Cognitive ethologists not only attribute intentional states to non-human animals, they also speak of such animals as having knowledge; and this talk of knowledge does causal and explanatory work withintheir theories. The account of knowledge which emerges from this literature is a version of reliabilism: knowledge is reliably produced true belief.This account of knowledge is not meant merely to provide an elucidation of an important scientific category. Rather, Kornblith argues that knowledge, in this very sense, is what philosophers have been talking about all along. Rival accounts are examined in detail and it is argued that they are inadequate to the phenomenon of knowledge (even of human knowledge).One traditional objection to this sort of naturalistic approach to epistemology is that, in providing a descriptive account of the nature of important epistemic categories, it must inevitably deprive these categories of their normative force. But Kornblith argues that a proper account of epistemic normativity flows directly from the account of knowledge which is found in cognitive ethology. Knowledge may be properly understood as a real feature of the world which makes normative demands uponus.This controversial and refreshingly original book offers philosophers a new way to do epistemology.

Beyond Common Knowledge

Author : Erik Gilbert Jensen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748032
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Common Knowledge written by Erik Gilbert Jensen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intensive global search is on for the "rule of law," the holy grail of good governance, which has led to a dramatic increase in judicial reform activities in developing countries. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the widening gap between theory and practice, or to the ongoing disconnect between stated project goals and actual funded activities. Beyond Common Knowledge examines the standard methods of legal and judicial reform. Taking stock of international experience in legal and judicial reform in Latin America, Europe, India, and China, this volume answers key questions in the judicial reform debate: What are the common assumptions about the role of the courts in improving economic growth and democratic politics? Do we expect too much from the formal legal system? Is investing in judicial reform projects a good strategy for getting at the problems of governance that beset many developing countries? If not, what are we missing?

Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1964/1966

Author : Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401035083
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1964/1966 written by Robert S. Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science contains papers which are based upon Colloquia from 1964 to 1966. In most cases, they have been substantially modified subsequent to presentation and discussion. Once again we publish work which goes beyond technical analysis of scientific theories and explanations in order to include philo sophical reflections upon the history of science and also upon the still problematic interactions between metaphysics and science. The philo sophical history of scientific ideas has increasingly been recognized as part of the philosophy of science, and likewise the cultural context of the genesis of such ideas. There is no school or attitude to be taken as de fining the scope or criteria of our Colloquium, and so we seek to under stand both analytic and historical aspects of science. This volume, as the previous two, constitutes a substantial part of our final report to the U. S. National Science Foundation, which has continued its support of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science by a grant to Boston University. That report will be concluded by a subse quent volume of these Studies. It is a pleasure to record our thanks to the Foundation for its confidence and funds. We dedicate this book to the memory of Norwood Russell Hanson. During this academic year of 1966-67, this beloved and distinguished American philosopher participated in our Colloquium, and he did so before.

Empirical Knowledge

Author : Paul K. Moser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780847682041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Knowledge written by Paul K. Moser and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : empirical knowledge / Paul K. Moser -- Concepts of epistemic justification / William P. Alston -- The myth of the given / Roderick Chisholm -- Can empirical knowledge have a foundation? / Laurence BonJour -- The coherence theory of knowledge / Keith Leher -- The foundationalism-coherentism controversy / Robert Audi -- Reliabilism and intellectual virtue / Ernest Sosa -- A contextualist theory of epistemic justification / David B. Annis -- Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism / Richard Rorty -- Is justified true belief knowledge? / Edmund Gettier -- An alleged defect in Gettier counterexamples / Richard Feldman -- The Gettier problem / John Pollock -- Why solve the Gettier problem? / Earl Conee -- A 'doxastic practice' approach to epistemology / William P. Alston -- Philosophical scepticism and epistemic circularity / Ernest Sosa -- Scepticism, 'externalism', and the goal of epistemology / Barry Stroud -- Epistemology naturalized / W.V. Quine -- Quine as a feminist : the radical import of naturalized epistemology / Louise M. Anthony -- Epistemic folkways and scientific epistemology / Alvin Goldman.