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Against Epistemologyby Theodor W. AdornoISBN 0262510308 (0-262-51030-8)
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Against Epistemology: A Metacritique Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomiesby Theodor W. AdornoISBN 0262010739 (0-262-01073-9)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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Belief's Own Ethicsby Jonathan Eric AdlerISBN 0262511940 (0-262-51194-0)
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Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship As Lived Researchby Mary Margaret Fonow, Judith A. CookISBN 0253206294 (0-253-20629-4)
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Cartesian Questions : Method and Metaphysicsby Jean-Luc MarionISBN 0226505448 (0-226-50544-8)
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Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspectiveby Kwasi WireduISBN 0253210801 (0-253-21080-1)
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The Degrees of Knowledgeby Jacques Maritain, Ralph M. McInernyISBN 0268008868 (0-268-00886-8)
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Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the Worldby Martin H. KriegerISBN 0253207010 (0-253-20701-0)
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Elements of Scientific Inquiryby Daniel N. Osherson, Eric MartinISBN 0262133423 (0-262-13342-3)
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The Equilibration of Cognitive Structures: The Central Problem of Intellectual Developmentby Jean PiagetISBN 0226667820 (0-226-66782-0)
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An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assentby John Henry NewmanISBN 0268010005 (0-268-01000-5)
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The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings, 1893-1913by Charles S. Peirce, Albert C. Lewis, Nathan Houser, Peirce Edition Project, Jonathan R. Eller, Andre De Tienne, Cathy L. Clark, D. Bront DavisISBN 0253211905 (0-253-21190-5)
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"... a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces.... all the Peirce most people will ever need." Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books
Volume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological readers edition provides the first comprehensive anthology of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirces mature philosophy. A central focus of Volume 2 is Peirces evolving theory of signs and its appplication to his pragmatism.
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The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings, 1893-1913by Nathan Houser, Charles S. Peirce, Christian J. W. Kloesel, Peirce Edition ProjectISBN 0253333970 (0-253-33397-0)
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Experiments in Contradictionby Jean PiagetISBN 0226667790 (0-226-66779-0)
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Faith & Rationality: Reason & Belief in Godby Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas WolterstorffISBN 0268009651 (0-268-00965-1)
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Fragmentation of Reason: Preface to a Pragmatic Theory of Cognitive Evaluationby Stephen StichISBN 0262691590 (0-262-69159-0)
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Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfigurationby Tracy B. StrongISBN 0252068564 (0-252-06856-4)
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Grammar of Assentby Newman, John Henry, CardinalISBN 0268009996 (0-268-00999-6)
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A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Societyby Mary PooveyISBN 0226675262 (0-226-67526-2)
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Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how beliefwhether figured as credit, credibility, or credulityremained essential to the production of knowledge.
Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.More editions of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society:
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How Children Learnby John Caldwell HoltISBN 0273421417 (0-273-42141-7)
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The Incomplete Universe : Totality, Knowledge and Truthby Patrick GrimISBN 0262071347 (0-262-07134-7)
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The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague's paradox of the knower, the Gödel theorems and related incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an eye to connection's with possible worlds, the notion of omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: "The world is all that is the case." [via]More editions of The Incomplete Universe : Totality, Knowledge and Truth:
Inquiryby Robert C. StalnakerISBN 0262691132 (0-262-69113-2)
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Is Science Multicultural Postcolonialism, Feminism & Epistemologies: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologiesby Sandra HardingISBN 0253211565 (0-253-21156-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is Science Multicultural Postcolonialism, Feminism & Epistemologies: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies'Book summary:Is Science Multicultural? explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. Sandra Harding introduces and discusses an array of postcolonial science studies, and their implications for "northern" science. All three science studies strains have developed in the context of post-World War II science and technology projects. They illustrate how technoscientific projects mean different things to different groups. The meaning attached by the culture of the West may not be shared or may be diametrically opposite in the cultures in other parts of the world. All, however, would agree that scientific projectsmodern science includedare "local knowledge systems." The interests and discursive resources that the various science studies bring groups to their projects, and the ways that they organize the production of their kind of science studies, are distinctively culturally-local also. While their projects may be unintentionally converging, they also conflict in fundamental respects.
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How is this inevitable cultural-situatedness of knowledge both an invaluable resource as well as a limitation on the advance of knowledge about nature? What are the distinctive resources that the feminist and postcolonial science theorists offer in thinking about the history of modern science; the diversity of "scientific" traditions in non-European as well as in European cultures; and the directions that might be taken by less androcentric and Eurocentric scientific projects? How might modern sciences projects be linked more firmly to the prodemocratic yearnings that are so widely voiced in contemporary life? Carefully balancing poststructuralist and conventional epistemological resources, this study concludes by proposing new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world.More editions of Is Science Multicultural Postcolonialism, Feminism & Epistemologies: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies:
Kantby Stephen KornerISBN 0300027923 (0-300-02792-3)
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Kant and the Problem of Metaphysicsby Martin Heidegger, Richard TaftISBN 0253210674 (0-253-21067-4)
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Kant's Life and Thoughtby Ernst CassirerISBN 0300029829 (0-300-02982-9)
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Knowledge and Mind: A Philosophical Introductionby Andrew Brook, Robert J. StaintonISBN 0262523175 (0-262-52317-5)
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Knowledge As Desire: An Essay on Freud and Piagetby Hans G. FurthISBN 0231064586 (0-231-06458-6)
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The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studiesby Ernst Cassirer, Steve G. Lofts, Donald Phillip VereneISBN 0300081154 (0-300-08115-4)
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Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mindby Paul M. ChurchlandISBN 0262530740 (0-262-53074-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind'Book summary:In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that have taken place in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence and notes their expanding relevance to philosophical issues. Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism. A Bradford Book. [via]
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Meaningby Michael Polanyi, Harry ProschISBN 0226672956 (0-226-67295-6)
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Metaphors We Live byby George Lakoff, Mark JohnsonISBN 0226468011 (0-226-46801-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metaphors We Live by'Book summary:The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.[via]
In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language. 
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Cultureby Mark C. TaylorISBN 0226791181 (0-226-79118-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture'Book summary:"The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways, Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing how information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used to understand recent developments in the arts and humanities. This book will ultimately be seen as a classic."-John L. Casti, Santa Fe Institute, author of Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and Mathematics[via]
The science of complexity accounts for that inscrutable mix of chaos and order that governs our natural world. Complexity explains how networks emerge and function, how species organize into ecosystems, how stars form into galaxies, and how just a few sequences of DNA can account for so many different life forms. Recently, the idea of complexity has taken the worlds of business and politics by storm. The concept is used to account for phenomena as varied as the behavior of the stock market, the response of voting populations, and the effects of risk management. Even Disney has used complexity theory to manage crowd control at its theme parks.
Given the startling development of new information technologies, we now live in a moment of unprecedented complexity, an era in which change occurs faster than our ability to comprehend it. With The Moment of Complexity, Mark C. Taylor offers a timely map for this unfamiliar terrain opening in our midst, unfolding an original philosophy through a remarkable synthesis of science and culture. According to Taylor, complexity is not just a breakthrough scientific concept, but the defining quality of the post-Cold War era. The flux of digital currents swirling around us, he argues, has created a new network culture with its own distinctive logic and dynamic.
Drawing on resources from information theory and evolutionary biology, Taylor explains the operation of complex adaptive systems in social and cultural processes and captures a whole new zeitgeist in the making. To appreciate the significance of our emerging network culture, he claims, we need not only to understand contemporary scientific and technological transformations, but also to explore the subtle influences of art, architecture, philosophy, religion, and higher education. The Moment of Complexity, then, is a remarkable work of cultural analysis on a scale rarely seen today. To follow its trajectory is to learn how we arrived at this critical moment in our culture, and to know where we might head in the twenty-first century.More editions of The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture:
Moore: G.E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostlesby Paul LevyISBN 0297775766 (0-297-77576-6)
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Naturalizing Epistemologyby Hilary KornblithISBN 0262610906 (0-262-61090-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naturalizing Epistemology'Book summary:The second edition of Naturalizing Epistemology has been updated and expanded to include seven new articles that take up ongoing debates in the field. As with the first edition, it explores the interaction between psychology and epistemology and addresses empirical questions about how we should arrive at our beliefs, and whether the processes by which we arrive at our beliefs are the ones by which we ought to arrive at our beliefs.The new material includes a critical examination of Quine's views on epistemology by Jaegwon Kim and an interesting psychological approach to our understanding of natural kinds by Ellen Markman. In other new chapters Jerry Fodor places the notion of observation in a naturalistic perspective, Christopher Cherniak shows how work in the theory of computational complexity bears on the form of an epistemological theory, and Alvin Goldman looks at the relationship between our ordinary epistemological concepts and those of a scientific epistemology.The prospects for improving our inductive inferences are examined by John Holland, Keith Holyoak, Richard Nisbett, and Paul Thagard, and Stephen Stich suggests a way in which normative concepts may be integrated into a naturalistic epistemology. The book retains articles by W. V. 0. Quine, Alvin I. Goldman, Hilary Kornblith, Philip Kircher, Michael Friedman, Fred Dretske, Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross, Gilbert Harman, and Stephen P. Stich.Hilary Kornblith is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vermont.
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The Nature of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectivesby Michael P. LynchISBN 0262621452 (0-262-62145-2)
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The Necessity Of Experienceby Edward S. ReedISBN 0300066686 (0-300-06668-6)
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A New Mind for Policy Analysis: Toward a Post-Newtonian and Postpositivist Epistemology and Methodologyby Goktug MorcolISBN 0275970124 (0-275-97012-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A New Mind for Policy Analysis: Toward a Post-Newtonian and Postpositivist Epistemology and Methodology'Book summary:Morcol argues that the objectivist and deterministic assumptions of mainstream policy analysis, which are based on the Newtonian/positivist worldview or mind-set, should be transcended. After demonstrating that the favored methods of mainstream policy analysis are based on Newtonian ontological and positivist epistemological assumptions and that the connections between these two are intimately and historically related, he critically assesses and highlights the contributions of quantum mechanics, complexity theory, and cognitive science to a new mind-set in scientific knowledge, a post-Newtonian and postpositivist mind-set.
Newtonian/positivist and post-Newtonian/postpositivist worldviews are conceptualized as fuzzy mind-sets, that is they are not mutually exclusive and that they share assumptions at varying degrees. Cognitive science shows that some of the fundamental concepts and assumptions of the Newtonain/positivist philosopysuch as the concept of causality and the tendency to categorize reality (reductionist thinking)are the products of the evolutionary adaptation of the human mind and they have become its built-in defaults. As Morcol suggests, we cannot change the biological defaults of our minds, but we can change our way of thinking, to an extent, through a cultural evolution. He argues that conscious efforts can be made in policy analysis education to help move our thinking toward a post-Newtonian and postpositivist policy analysis. Of particular interest to scholars and advanced students dealing with policy analysis, public administration, and political science, especially those concerned with epistemology and methodology.
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The New Nietzsche: Contemporary Styles of Interpretationby David B. AllisonISBN 0262510340 (0-262-51034-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Nietzsche: Contemporary Styles of Interpretation'Book summary:The New Nietzsche offers an important sampling of the rereadings of Friedrich Nietzche's work that have contributed greatly to the development of contemporary European philosophy.The fifteen essays, written by such eminent scholars as Derrida, Heidegger, Deleuze, Klossowski, and Blanchot, focus on the Nietzschean concepts of the Will to Power, the Overman, and the Eternal Return, discuss Nietzsche's style, and deal with the religious implications of his ideas. Taken together they provide an indispensable foil to the interpretations available in most current American writing.Contents: "Nietzsche and Metaphysical Language," Michel Haar; "The Will to Power," Alphonso Lingis; "Who is Nietzsches Zarathustra?" Martin Heidegger; "Active and Reactive," Gilles Deleuze; "Nietzsche's Experience of the Eternal Return," Pierre Klossowski; "The Limits of Experience: Nihilism," Maurice Blanchot; "Nietzsche's Conception of Chaos," Jean Granier; "Nomad Thought," Gilles Deleuze; "Nietzsche: Life as Metaphor," Eric Blondel; "The Question of Style," Jacques Derrida; "Perspectivism and Interpretation," Jean Granier; "Metaphor, Symbol, Metamorphosis," Sarah Kofman; "Beatitude in Nietzsche," Henri Birault; "Eternal Recurrence and Kingdom of God," Thomas J. J. Altizer; "Dionysus versus the Crucified," Paul Valadier.David B. Allison is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
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Objectivity: The Obligations of Impersonal Reasonby Nicholas RescherISBN 0268037035 (0-268-03703-5)
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On the Logic of the Social Sciencesby Jurgen Habermas, Weber Nicholsen, Jerry A. StarkISBN 0262581043 (0-262-58104-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Logic of the Social Sciences'Book summary:For two decades the German edition of this book has been a standard reference point for students of the philosophy of the social sciences in Germany. Today it still stands as a unique and masterful guide to the major problems and possibilities in this field.On the Logic of the Social Sciences foreshadowed the direction in which methodological discussions have traveled since it appeared and anticipated the problems they presently face. Habermas's statement of the principal issues is concise and elegant, and his own original resolution of them is of continuing relevance. He considers the main lines of thought pursued by epistemologists and methodologists of the social sciences, from neo-Kantianism to behaviorism, and from problems of measurement to those of interpretive logic, in a sustained and provocative argument that involves analysis and critique at every point and ends with his own sharply profiled position.Beginning with the turn of the century debates on the distinction between natural and cultural sciences, Habermas discusses the relationship between sociology and history. He takes up the problem of a general theory of social action, focusing first on the nature of "interpretive understanding" and then on the scope and limits of functionalist explanation. In the concluding sections, he draws on psychoanalysis and classical social theory to sketch the outlines of his view of sociology as a critical theory of the present. Along the way he provides a great deal of material that is useful in understanding his own work.Jürgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. On the Logic of the Social Sciences is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.
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Passionsby Robert C. SolomonISBN 0268015511 (0-268-01551-1)
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The Phenomeno-Logic of the I: Essays on Self-Consciousnessby Hector-Neri Castaneda, James G. Hart, Tomis KapitanISBN 025333506X (0-253-33506-X)
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Philosophic Thought of Ayn Randby Den Uyl, Douglas & Rasmussen, DouglasISBN 0252014073 (0-252-01407-3)
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Philosophical Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenmentby Claus Offe, Axel Honneth, Thomas McCarthy, Albrecht WellmerISBN 0262581094 (0-262-58109-4)
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Plato's Sophist: The Drama of Original and Imageby Stanley RosenISBN 0300037619 (0-300-03761-9)
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Plato's Statesmanby Plato, Seth Benardete, Seth BernardeteISBN 0226670333 (0-226-67033-3)
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Plato's Statesman: The Web of Politicsby Stanley RosenISBN 0300072813 (0-300-07281-3)
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"Rosen tries by explaining the dialogue's philosophical methodology to appeal to readers other than those who specialize in Plato. He succeeds by means of his lucid prose and ordered presentation of the dialogue's twists and turns. A necessary book for all levels of thoughtful readers". -- Choice
"The Statesman may well be Plato's most difficult work. Rosen's interpretation is penetrating and original, with a rich and humorous description of the recalcitrant details of the dialogue". -- Davis K. O'Connor, University of Notre Dame [via]
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Poetry and the Fate of the Sensesby Susan StewartISBN 0226774147 (0-226-77414-7)
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Pragmatics and Empiricismby Brian SkyrmsISBN 0300031742 (0-300-03174-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Presence of Mythby Leszek Kolakowski, Adam CzerniawskiISBN 0226450570 (0-226-45057-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Presence of Myth'Book summary:"[An] important essay by a philosopher who more convincingly than any other I can think of demonstrates the continuing significance of his vocation in the life of our culture."Karsten Harries, The New York Times Book Review[via]
With The Presence of Myth, Kolakowski demonstrates that no matter how hard man strives for purely rational thought, there has always been-and always will be-a reservoir of mythical images that lend "being" and "consciousness" a specifically human meaning.
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The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiquesby Claude Levi-Strauss, John Weightman, Doreen WeightmanISBN 0226474879 (0-226-47487-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Scienceby Alvin I. GoldmanISBN 0262571005 (0-262-57100-5)
Softcover, Bradford Books
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Readings in the Philosophy of Social Scienceby Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyreISBN 0262631512 (0-262-63151-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science'Book summary:This is the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s. Covering all of the major areas in the discipline, it will serve as the standard source for scholarship in the field and could be used as the basis for an entire course.The anthology offers one complete, convenient, and well-chosen selection of readings, plus three specially commissioned articles that encompass the entire range of topics in the field and cover both sides of currently hot debates about explanation, methodological individualism, and the special sciences. The introductions to each section provide a map through the discipline.Michael Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Lee C. McIntyre is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University.Sections cover: Explanation, Prediction, and Laws. Interpretation and Meaning. Rationality. Functional Explanation. Reductionism, Individualism, and Holism. Objectivity and Values. Problems of the Special Sciences.Commissioned articles: Taylor on Interpretation and the Sciences of Man Michael Martin. Microfoundations of Marxism, D. Little. Evidential Constraints: Pragmatic Empiricism in Archaeology, A. Wylie.
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Reasoning About Knowledgeby Ronald Fagin, Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses, Moshe Y. VardiISBN 0262562006 (0-262-56200-6)
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Relativism: Cognitive and Moralby Jack W. Meiland, Michael KrauszISBN 0268016127 (0-268-01612-7)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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Ruskin and the Rhetoric of Infallibilityby Gary WihlISBN 0300033214 (0-300-03321-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Science And Social Inequality: Feminist And Postcolonial Issuesby Sandra HardingISBN 0252073045 (0-252-07304-5)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varietiesby P. F. StrawsonISBN 0231059175 (0-231-05917-5)
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Social Epistemologyby Steve FullerISBN 0253215153 (0-253-21515-3)
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequencesby Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh StarISBN 0262522950 (0-262-52295-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences'Book summary:Is this book sociology, anthropology, or taxonomy? Sorting Things Out, by communications theorists Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, covers a lot of conceptual ground in its effort to sort out exactly how and why we classify and categorize the things and concepts we encounter day to day. But the analysis doesn't stop there; the authors go on to explore what happens to our thinking as a result of our classifications. With great insight and precise academic language, they pick apart our information systems and language structures that lie deeper than the everyday categories we use. The authors focus first on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a widely used scheme used by health professionals worldwide, but also look at other health information systems, racial classifications used by South Africa during apartheid, and more.
Though it comes off as a bit too academic at times (by the end of the 20th century, most writers should be able to get the spelling of McDonald's restaurant right), the book has a clever charm that thoughtful readers will surely appreciate. A sly sense of humor sneaks into the writing, giving rise to the chapter title "The Kindness of Strangers," for example. After arguing that categorization is both strongly influenced by and a powerful reinforcer of ideology, it follows that revolutions (political or scientific) must change the way things are sorted in order to throw over the old system. Who knew that such simple, basic elements of thought could have such far-reaching consequences? Whether you ultimately place it with social science, linguistics, or (as the authors fear) fantasy, make sure you put Sorting Things Out in your reading pile. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Theories of Truth: A Critical Introductionby Richard L. KirkhamISBN 0262611082 (0-262-61108-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theories of Truth: A Critical Introduction'Book summary:Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars. Kirkham's systematic treatment and meticulous explanations of terminology ensure that readers will come away from this book with a comprehensive general understanding of one of philosophy's thorniest set of topics.Included are discussions of the correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, semantic, performative, redundancy, appraisal, and truth-as-justification theories. There are also chapters or sections of chapters on the liar paradox, three-valued logic, Field's critique of Tarski, Davidson's program, Dummett's theory of linguistic competence, satisfaction, recursion, the extension/intension distinction, and an explanation of how theories of justification, properly understood, differ from theories of truth.A persistent theme is that philosophers have too often failed to recognize that not all theories of truth are intended to answer the same question. When the various questions are made distinct, it is apparent that many of the "debates" in this field are really cases of philosophers talking past one another. There is much less disagreement within the field than has commonly been thought.Richard L. Kirkham is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma.
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A Theory of Content and Other Essaysby Jerry A. FodorISBN 0262560690 (0-262-56069-0)
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Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievementsby Clark GlymourISBN 0262571196 (0-262-57119-6)
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Truth And Justificationby Jurgen Habermas, Barbara FultnerISBN 0262582589 (0-262-58258-9)
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Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophyby Avrum StrollISBN 0231112211 (0-231-11221-1)
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Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perceptionby Evan Thompson, Alva NoeISBN 0262640473 (0-262-64047-3)
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Visual Analogy: Consciousness As the Art of Connectingby Barbara Maria StaffordISBN 0262692678 (0-262-69267-8)
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