Epistemology Books

New and Published Books

1. Epistemology Modalized

   By Kelly Becker

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This book sets out first to explain how two fairly recent developments in philosophy, externalism and modalism, provide the basis for a promising account of knowledge, and then works through the different modalized epistemologies extant in the literature, assessing their strengths and weaknesses....

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Philosophy of Curiosity

   By Ilhan Inan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as a desire to know. Working in an area where epistemology and philosophy of language overlap, Inan forges a link between our ability to become aware of our ignorance and our linguistic aptitude to construct terms referring to...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience

   By Marc Djaballah

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on the...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Epistemology in Classical India

   The Knowledge Sources of the Nyaya School

   By Stephen H Phillips

   In this book, Phillips gives an overview of the contribution of Nyaya--the classical Indian school that defends an externalist position about knowledge as well as an internalist position about justification. Nyaya literature extends almost two thousand years and comprises hundreds of texts, and in...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
5. Civility in Politics and Education

   Edited by Deborah Mower, Wade L. Robison

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This book examines the concept of civility and the conditions of civil disagreement in politics and education. Although many assume that civility is merely polite behavior, it functions to aid rational discourse. Building on this basic assumption, the book offers multiple accounts of civility and...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Ethics, Knowledge and Truth in Sports Research

   An Epistemology of Sport

   By Graham McFee

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation. In this groundbreaking study, Graham McFee...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge

   By Karl Popper

   Edited by Troels Eggers Hansen

   Series: Routledge Classics

   In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge – as ‘…a child of crises, above all of …the crisis of physics.’ Finally available in English, it is a major contribution to the philosophy of science,...

   Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
8. Philosophy of Science

   A Contemporary Introduction, 3rd Edition

   By Alex Rosenberg

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

   Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg’s updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving together lucid explanations and clear analyses, the volume...

   Published July 11th 2011 by Routledge
9. Contradictions of Archaeological Theory

   Engaging Critical Realism and Archaeological Theory

   By Sandra Wallace

   Series: Critical Realism: Interventions

   Is current archaeological theory stuck at an impasse? Sandra Wallace argues that archaeological theory has become mired as a result of logical and ontological contradictions. By showing that these contradictions are a result of common underlying philosophical assumptions and fallacies this book is...

   Published June 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. Popper’s Critical Rationalism

    A Philosophical Investigation

    By Darrell Rowbottom

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

    Popper’s Critical Rationalism presents Popper’s views on science, knowledge, and inquiry, and examines the significance and tenability of these in light of recent developments in philosophy of science, philosophy of probability, and epistemology. It develops a fresh and novel philosophical position...

    Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge