On Historicizing Epistemology

On Historicizing Epistemology
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 128
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ISBN-10 : 9780804774208
ISBN-13 : 080477420X
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Synopsis On Historicizing Epistemology by : Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians of science alike contributed their share to what this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities. Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all their diversity take shape and change over time.

Historical Epistemology of Space

Historical Epistemology of Space
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 9783319252414
ISBN-13 : 3319252410
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Historical Epistemology of Space by : Matthias Schemmel

This monograph investigates the development of human spatial knowledge by analyzing its elementary structures and studying how it is further shaped by various societal conditions. By taking a thoroughly historical perspective on knowledge and integrating results from various disciplines, this work throws new light on long-standing problems in epistemology such as the relation between experience and preformed structures of cognition. What do the orientation of apes and the theory of relativity have to do with each other? Readers will learn how different forms of spatial thinking are related in a long-term history of knowledge. Scientific concepts of space such as Newton’s absolute space or Einstein’s curved spacetime are shown to be rooted in pre-scientific structures of knowledge, while at the same time enabling the integration of an ever expanding corpus of experiential knowledge. This work addresses all readers interested in questions of epistemology, in particular philosophers and historians of science. It integrates forms of spatial knowledge from disciplines including anthropology, developmental psychology and cognitive sciences, amongst others.

After Certainty

After Certainty
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9780192521934
ISBN-13 : 0192521934
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Synopsis After Certainty by : Robert Pasnau

No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that beings such as us might hope to achieve in a world such as this. The story begins with Aristotle and then looks at how his epistemic program was developed through later antiquity and into the Middle Ages, before being dramatically reformulated in the seventeenth century. In watching these debates unfold over the centuries, one sees why epistemology has traditionally been embedded within a much larger sphere of concerns about human nature and the reality of the world we live in. It ultimately becomes clear why epistemology today has become a much narrower and specialized field, concerned with the conditions under which it is true to say, that someone knows something. Based on a series of lectures given at Oxford University, Robert Pasnau's book ranges widely over the history of philosophy, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline. Ultimately Pasnau argues that we may have no good reasons to suppose ourselves capable of achieving even the most minimal standards for knowledge, and the final chapter concludes with a discussion of faith and hope.

Ancient Epistemology

Ancient Epistemology
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9780521871396
ISBN-13 : 0521871395
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Ancient Epistemology by : Lloyd P. Gerson

This book explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity.

The Emergence of Sexuality

The Emergence of Sexuality
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0674013700
ISBN-13 : 9780674013704
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Emergence of Sexuality by : Arnold Ira Davidson

Moving between philosophy and history, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality.

Introduction to the Study of the History of Epistemology

Introduction to the Study of the History of Epistemology
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Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 3631673396
ISBN-13 : 9783631673393
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Introduction to the Study of the History of Epistemology by : Andrej Démuth

The text presents nine basic types of the classical philosophical perception of the problem of knowledge: the atomistic and causal theory of perception, Platonism, Aristotle's doctrine, scepticism, rationalism, sensualism, Kant's theory of knowledge, phenomenological-existential, pragmatic, and (post)analytical perceptions of knowledge.

Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671

Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 811
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ISBN-10 : 9780191501791
ISBN-13 : 0191501794
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Synopsis Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 by : Robert Pasnau

Robert Pasnau traces the developments of metaphysical thinking through four rich but for the most part neglected centuries of philosophy, running from the thirteenth century through to the seventeenth. At no period in the history of philosophy, other than perhaps our own, have metaphysical problems received the sort of sustained attention they received during the later Middle Ages, and never has a whole philosophical tradition come crashing down as quickly and completely as did scholastic philosophy in the seventeenth century. The thirty chapters work through various fundamental metaphysical issues, sometimes focusing more on scholastic thought, sometimes on the seventeenth century. Pasnau begins with the first challenges to the classical scholasticism of Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas, runs through prominent figures like John Duns Scotus and William Ockham, and ends in the seventeenth century, with the end of the first stage of developments in post-scholastic philosophy: on the continent, with Descartes and Gassendi, and in England, with Boyle and Locke.

Historical Dictionary of Epistemology

Historical Dictionary of Epistemology
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Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of Rel
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105123273935
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Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Epistemology by : Ralph Baergen

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that investigates our beliefs, evidence, and claims of knowledge. It is one of the core areas of philosophy, and is relevant to an astonishingly broad range of issues and situations. Epistemological issues arise whenever we recognize that there is a fact of the matter, but we do not know what it is, when we wonder about the future (or the past or distant places), when we seek answers in the sciences, and even in our entertainment (e.g., murder mysteries and comedies of misunderstanding). The Historical Dictionary of Epistemology provides an overview of this field of study and of the theories, concepts, and personalities through the use of a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and more than 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries, covering notable concepts, theories, arguments, publications, issues, and philosophers. Students and others who wish to acquaint themselves with epistemology will be greatly aided by this reference.

Toward a History of Epistemic Things

Toward a History of Epistemic Things
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Publisher : Writing Science (Paperback)
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 0804727864
ISBN-13 : 9780804727860
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Toward a History of Epistemic Things by : Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Arguing for the primacy of the material arrangements of the laboratory in the dynamics of modern molecular biology, the author develops a new epistemology of experimentation in which research is treated as a process for producing epistemic things.

Knowledge

Knowledge
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9781317592464
ISBN-13 : 1317592468
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Knowledge by : Steve Fuller

The theory of knowledge, or epistemology, is often regarded as a dry topic that bears little relation to actual knowledge practices. Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History addresses this perception by showing the roots, developments and prospects of modern epistemology from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with an introduction to the central questions and problems in theory of knowledge, Steve Fuller goes on to demonstrate that contemporary epistemology is enriched by its interdisciplinarity, analysing keys areas including: Epistemology as Cognitive Economics Epistemology as Divine Psychology Epistemology as Philosophy of Science Epistemology as Sociology of Science Epistemology and Postmodernism. A wide-ranging and historically-informed assessment of the ways in which man has - and continues to - pursue, question, contest, expand and shape knowledge, this book is essential reading anyone in the Humanities and Social Sciences interested in the history and practical application of epistemology.