Translating from Sanskrit some contemporary Indian Pandits' reactions to Western analytic accounts of meaning and knowledge, this title is suitable for advanced undergraduates in philosophy, for researchers - in Australia, Asia, Europe or America - on epistemology, theory of meaning, and, Indian or comparative philosophy.
An interpretation and a critical assessment of Friederich Nietzsche's influential work on the traditionally central questions of philosophy concerning the possibility of knowledge and the nature of reality. Dr Poellner draws upon not only Nietzsche's published works but also his voluminous notebooks, largely unpublished.
What is known? And how do we come to know it? This book attempts to answer these questions by moving away from the rationalist notion of innate ideas to establish the concept of the tabula rasa in which the mind is initially impressed with ideas through perception of the external world of substance.
Presents a phenomenological theory of the methods and the methodology of the human sciences, and the philological interpretations. This book discusses the historical development of hermeneutics as a method of interpreting texts and the tradition including the first steps toward the emergence of scientific methodological hermeneutics.
Understanding Marx provides a philosophically contextualized treatment of Marx's Epistemology and Method. The book's unique focus is a commentary on his famous Introduction to the Grundrisse.
In a contemporary climate that dismisses philosophy as an outmoded and increasingly useless discipline, philosophers have been forced to reconsider much that they have taken for granted. Scholar Hugo Meynell's insightful reassessment of the foundations and nature of knowledge is a stunning response to that demand.
Belief and Meaning have often been thought to be intimately related. Typically, there is a correlation between the meaning of a sentence which is uttered and the content of the attitude that the speaker thereby conveys. This is also why the sentence can be used to specify this content in an attribution of the attitude to the speaker.
A collection of essays that are concerned with the metaphysics of persons and the criteria of personal identity. The essays in this book also discuss problems of the theory of action and of practical philosophy.