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Realism - Relativism - Constructivism
The book presents papers from leading proponents of realist, relativist, and constructivist positions in epistemology and the philosophy of language and ethics.
Realism - Relativism - Constructivism
The book presents papers from leading proponents of realist, relativist, and constructivist positions in epistemology and the philosophy of language and ethics.
Believable Evidence
The first comprehensive account of the nature of evidence, presenting innovative and influential arguments concerning the ontology of reasons.
Self-Feeling
This monograph offers new insights into the connection between self-consciousness and emotion. It focuses on what fundamental “feelings of being” tell us about ourselves. The results enrich the philosophy of human affectivity and help shed new light on some pressing, current problems. The author seeks to understand self-consciousness as an affective phenomenon, namely as self-feeling. He identifies it as a pre-reflective, pre-propositional, bodily feeling that shapes our space of possibilities. It is the affective disclosure of individual existence. His account overcomes the difficulties of infinite regress and vicious circularity that reflective (or higher-order) accounts of self-consci...
The Factive Turn in Epistemology
First comprehensive treatment of the ontology of epistemic normative notions including reasons, justification, and rationality, reflecting important current debates.
Self-knowledge
The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry. At the same time, some sort of self-knowledge is often regarded as a necessary condition of our being a human agent or human subject. Thus self-knowledge is taken to constitute both the beginning and the end of humans' search for wisdom, and as such it is intricately bound up with the very idea of philosophy. Not surprisingly therefore, the Delphic injunction 'Know thyself' has fascinated philosophers of different times, backgrounds, and tempers. But how can we make sense of this imperative? What is self-knowledge and how is it achieved? What are the structural features that distinguish se...
How Scientific Instruments Speak
Science is highly dependent on technologies to observe scientific objects. For example, astronomers need telescopes to observe planetary movements, and cognitive neuroscience depends on brain imaging technologies to investigate human cognition. But how do such technologies shape scientific practice, and how do new scientific objects come into being when new technologies are used in science? In How Scientific Instruments Speak, Bas de Boer develops a philosophical account of how technologies shape the reality that scientists study, arguing that we should understand scientific instruments as mediating technologies. Rather than mute tools serving pre-existing human goals, scientific instruments...
Konstruktion von Verbindlichkeit
Radikalkonstruktivistische Ansätze werden in der Theologie bislang eher zurückhaltend aufgegriffen. Zu groß scheint die Sorge, mit einer solchen Erkenntnistheorie, die alle Wahrnehmung und Erkenntnis als Konstruktion versteht, die Verbindlichkeit der eigenen Rede zu riskieren. Wenn auch Gott zum Konstrukt wird, wie kann man dann noch verbindlich Theologie treiben? Jonas Maria Hoff greift diese Vorbehalte auf und kontert sie in ausführlichen Analysen mit möglichen Vorzügen eines Theoriekontakts von radikalem Konstruktivismus und (Fundamental-)Theologie. Dabei setzt er Schwerpunkte in der Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen Religiosität, Mystik, Paradoxalität und Normativität.
Epistemic Reasons, Norms and Goals
In recent years, questions about epistemic reasons, norms and goals have seen an upsurge of interest. The present volume brings together eighteen essays by established and upcoming philosophers in the field. The contributions are arranged into four sections: (1) epistemic reasons, (2) epistemic norms, (3) epistemic consequentialism and (4) epistemic goals and values. The volume is key reading for researchers interested in epistemic normativity.
