Epistemology
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What Can We Really Know?: The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding
$26.95 Add to cartToday, it’s not uncommon to get the impression that our claims to know are either doomed before they begin or that they have a status that approaches certainty. The pendulum seems to swing from one en… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1956658548
- Language: English
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
$21.95 Add to cartOver a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun… [more below]
- Author: Dennett, Daniel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0393348784
- Language: English
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Tasting Coffee: An Inquiry into Objectivity
$35.95 Add to cartDraws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.
- Author: Liberman, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1438488963
- Language: English
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The Concept of Mind
$30.00 Add to cartThis now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy’s “official theory,” the Cartesians “myth” of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle’s linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography … [more below]
- Author: Ryle, Gilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: December 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0226732967
- Language: English
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Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki
$24.99 Add to cartIn Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Kānaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and
- Series: Indigenous Pacifics
- Author: Case, Emalani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 082488681X
- Language: English
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism
$13.99 Add to cartThroughout history philosophers have sought to define, understand, and delineate concepts important to human well-being. One such concept is “knowledge.” Many philosophers believed that absolute, cert… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Empiricus, Sextus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0879755970
- Language: English
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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
$24.95 Add to cartAn invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everyb- Author: Hitz, Zena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0691178712
- Language: English
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Evidence and Inquiry: A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Epistemology
$21.95 Add to cartDescribed by Hilary Putnam as “both a fine introduction and a significant contribution” to epistemology, and by Anthony Quinton as “at once comprehensive … and judicious,” Evidence and Inquiry is un… [more below]
- Author: Haack, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159102689X
- Language: English
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Rules: A Short History of What We Live by
$80.00 Add to cartA panoramic history of rules in the Western world
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended ha- Series: Lawrence Stone Lectures #13
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0691156980
- Language: English
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Critique of the Power of Judgment
$55.00 Add to cartThis entirely new translation of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. This vo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: December 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0521348927
- Language: English
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Why I Am So Wise
$12.00 Add to cartThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves–and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, ou… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036343
- Language: English
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The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics
$9.99 Add to cartThis short study introduces and evaluates the most fundamental paradox at the core of Kant’s philosophy. This is the ‘metacritical’ problem of whether Kant’s critical project is itself possible, a pos… [more below]
- Author: Spiker, Hasan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 9948166558
- Language: English
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The Enigma of Reason
$22.00 Add to cart“Brilliant…Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times
“Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly- Author: Mercier, Hugo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 067423782X
- Language: English
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On Truth
$14.99 Add to cartTruth is not just a recent topic of contention. Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. Why is the truth important? Who decides what the truth is? Is there such a thing as objective, eternal tr… [more below]
- Author: Blackburn, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190867213
- Language: English
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Educational Potentialities: Collected Talks on Revolutionary Education, Aesthetics, and Organization
$12.50 Add to cartFor over two decades, philosopher Tyson E. Lewis has produced an impressive and sprawling body of work organized around the pursuit of alternative forms of educational life. By doing so, he’s staged r
- Author: Lewis, Tyson E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1088116906
- Language: English
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When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves
$18.95 Add to cartWhy the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today’s epidemic of irrationality
There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, ev- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0691227950
- Language: English
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The Phenomenology of Mind
$24.99 Add to cartIn The Phenomenology of Mind, idealist philosopher Georg Hegel (1770-1831) defied the traditional epistemological distinction of objective from subjective and developed his own dialectical alternativ… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0486432513
- Language: English
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartImmanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton–a well-known and controversial ph… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #50
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0192801996
- Language: English
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Understanding Beliefs
$18.95 Read moreWhat beliefs are, what they do for us, how we come to hold them, and how to evaluate them.
Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about cultu
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Nilsson, Nils J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0262526433
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Knowledge and the Ontological Necessity of First Principles
$14.99 Add to cartThis paper in the series explores one of the first principles of metaphysics, the principle of identity in its logical form, namely, the principle of non-contradiction, and the relationship between it
- Series: Classification of Sciences Project #1
- Author: Lahham, Karim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: March 08 2021
- ISBN10: 9948860705
- Language: English
