Epistemology Books

New and Published Books

1. Contrastivism in Philosophy

   Edited by Martijn Blaauw

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement. This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on the contrastive treatment of philosophical concepts and questions, including knowledge, belief, free will,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Powers and Capacities in Philosophy

   The New Aristotelianism

   Edited by John Greco, Ruth Groff

   Powers and Capacities in Philosophy is designed to stake out an emerging, discipline-spanning neo-Aristotelian framework grounded in realism about causal powers. The volume brings together for the first time original essays by leading philosophers working on powers in relation to metaphysics,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Disagreement and Skepticism

   Edited by Diego E. Machuca

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   The thirteen essays in this volume explore for the first time the possible skeptical implications of disagreement in different areas and from different perspectives, with an emphasis in the current debate about the epistemic significance of disagreement. They represent a new contribution to the...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Bertrand Russell's Theory of Knowledge

   By Elizabeth Ramsden Eames

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   When future generations come to analyze and survey twentieth-century philosophy as a whole, Bertrand Russell’s logic and theory of knowledge is assured a place of prime importance. Yet until this book was first published in 1969 no comprehensive treatment of his epistemology had appeared....

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Bertrand Russell On Education

   By Joe Park

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   Although scholars from many disciplines have turned their attention to Russell’s work and appraised its significance for a number of fields, and an extensive literature on him emerged, until this book, first published in 1963, no thorough study on Russell’s contribution to education – an area to...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. Epistemology

   Edited by Ram Neta

   Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

   For those working in Epistemology dizzying questions such as the following arise: • When are beliefs rational, or justified? • How should we update our beliefs in the light of new evidence? • Is it possible to gain knowledge, or justification? • How do we know what we know, and why do we care...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Donald Davidson: Life and Words

   Edited by Maria Baghramian

   Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. His thinking about language, mind, and epistemology has shaped the views of several generations of philosophers. This book brings together articles by a host of prominent philosophers...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Disjunctivism

   Disjunctive Accounts in Epistemology and in the Philosophy of Perception

   Edited by Marcus Willaschek

   Does perception provide us with direct and unmediated access to the world around us? The so-called 'argument from illusion ' has traditionally been supposed to show otherwise: from the subject's point of view, perceptual illusions are often indistinguishable from veridical perceptions; hence,...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Globalization and the Decolonial Option

   Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar

   This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Arguing About Science

    Edited by Alexander Bird, James Ladyman

    Series: Arguing About Philosophy

    Arguing About Science is an outstanding, engaging introduction to the essential topics in philosophy of science, edited by two leading experts in the field. This exciting and innovative anthology contains a selection of classic and contemporary readings that examine a broad range of issues, from...

    Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge