Epistemology

Originally published in 1968. There is a much neglected and more radical form of scepticism, Pyrrhonism, which neither denies nor accepts the possibility of knowledge and is to be regarded not as a philosophical position so much as the expression of a philosophical way of life. Professor Naess argue..

Scepticism and the First Person..

In this outstanding collection, philosophers engage with skepticism in five clear sections.  Essential reading for students and scholars in epistemology and the history of philosophy and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as religion and sociology...

Originally published in 1990. This study takes us through the argument for the possibility of scepticism, including looking at sense data and considering memory and perception...

P.F. Strawson has supplied a new introduction for this reissue of his modern classic originally published in 1974. Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar explores two conceptions of subject and predicate, one of which lies at the core of standard logic and the other more closely relates to surfa..

Testimony: A Philosophical Introduction provides an epistemology of testimony that surveys this rapidly growing research area while incorporating a discussion of relevant empirical work from social and developmental psychology, as well as from the interdisciplinary study of knowledge-creation in gro..

Testimony: A Philosophical Introduction provides an epistemology of testimony that surveys this rapidly growing research area while incorporating a discussion of relevant empirical work from social and developmental psychology, as well as from the interdisciplinary study of knowledge-creation in gro..

Originally published in 1940. This book seeks to combine epistemology and the new developments of the time in psychology and suggests a single structural pattern underlying every type of cognitive situation...

Originally published in 1969. The first part of this book consists of discussions of fundamental problems in the sciences. The second section suggests lines of philosophical inquiry which might help to resolve the epistemological and ethical problems...

Originally published in 1970. This work evaluates the appeal to the sensually given which played an important role in epistemological discussions during the early 20th Century. The correspondence and coherence theories of truth, perception, and the differences between scientific and philosophical th..

This title was first published in 2002. This book challenges prevalent assumptions regarding questions and enquiry. It argues that instead of trying to understand questions by reference to knowledge, knowledge can be conceived by reference to the distinctive logical form exhibited by questions. Inte..

Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent. By accepting determinism or naturalism, one allegedly acquires a reason to reject determinism or naturalism. The Epistemological Skyhook brings..