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Between Experience and Metaphysics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Between Experience and Metaphysics

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A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 820

A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms

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Philosophical Lectures on Probability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Philosophical Lectures on Probability

Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985) is the founder of the subjective interpretation of probability, together with the British philosopher Frank Plumpton Ramsey. His related notion of “exchangeability” revolutionized the statistical methodology. This book (based on a course held in 1979) explains in a language accessible also to non-mathematicians the fundamental tenets and implications of subjectivism, according to which the probability of any well specified fact F refers to the degree of belief actually held by someone, on the ground of her whole knowledge, on the truth of the assertion that F obtains.

Criticism and Defense of Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Criticism and Defense of Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-07-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book engages in critical discussion of the role of reason and rationality in philosophy, the human mind, ethics, science, and the social sciences. Philosophers from Poland, Germany, and the United States examine reason in the light of emotion, doubt, absolutes, implementation, and interpretation. They throw new light on old values.

Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy

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Beyond Orientalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 745

Beyond Orientalism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Wilhelm Halbfass, philosopher and Indologist, is a committed participant in the dialogue between India and Europe, whose reflections on the Indian tradition and its Western perception are accompanied by reflection on and critical examination of the Western tradition. In this innovative combination of Indological research and philosophical-hermeneutical research in the history of ideas, he demonstrates a purpose more ambitious and a scope wider than Edward Said's who constructed the Western study of the so-called Orient as an attempt to deprive it of its identity and sovereignty, and who perceived the pursuit of Oriental Studies in Western universities to be an extension of a fundamentally po...

Quine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Quine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-06-08
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  • Publisher: BRILL

From the contents: Naturalistic epistemology, murder and suicide? But what about the promises! (Ton Derksen). - Naturalism and rationality (Christopher Hookway). - Quine's hypothetical theory of language learning: a comparison of different conceptualschemes of their logic (Mia Gosselin). - Quine and innate similarity spaces (Jaap van Brakel). - Quine and Davidson on the structure of empirical knowledge (Dirk Koppelberg). - Empathy and charity (Eva Picardi). - Quine: indeterminacy, 'robust realism', and truth (Sandra Laugier). - Quine and Putnam on conceptual relativity and reference: theft or honest toil? (Roger Vergauwen).

Marx's Theories Today
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

Marx's Theories Today

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-24
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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Polish Essays in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

Polish Essays in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences

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The Postmodernist Critique of the Project of Enlightenment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

The Postmodernist Critique of the Project of Enlightenment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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