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Conspiracy Theories: A Primer, 2nd edition

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Conspiracy Theories: A Primer, 2nd edition

Conspiracy Theories: A Primer, 2nd edition
by Joseph Uscinski, Adam M. Enders
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1538173247 | 246 Pages | True ePUB | 2.45 MB

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk, 2nd Edition

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Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk, 2nd Edition

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk, 2nd Edition by Massimo Pigliucci
English | December 22nd, 2022 | ISBN: 022649599X | 323 pages | True EPUB | 0.54 MB

"This crash course in critical thinking . . . includes handy rules for evaluating the confused public discourse on climate change, evolution, and even UFOs." —Discover

Knowledge True and Useful: A Cultural History of Early Scholasticism (The Middle Ages)

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Knowledge True and Useful: A Cultural History of Early Scholasticism (The Middle Ages)

Knowledge True and Useful: A Cultural History of Early Scholasticism (The Middle Ages) by Frank Rexroth
English | September 19th, 2023 | ISBN: 1512824704 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 4.34 MB

A radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the past, scholars began to determine and pursue their own avenues of academic inquiry. In Knowledge True and Useful, Frank Rexroth shows how, beginning in the 1070s, a new kind of knowledge arose in Latin Europe that for the first time could be deemed "scientific."

The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning

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The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning

The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning by Gary Tomlinson
English | February 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 1942130791 | 328 pages | True EPUB | 13.00 MB

A groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphere

Non-Ideal Epistemology

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Non-Ideal Epistemology

Non-Ideal Epistemology by Robin McKenna
English | July 18th, 2023 | ISBN: 019288882X | 211 pages | True PDF | 1.28 MB

Epistemologists often work with idealized pictures of what inquirers are like, how they interact with each other, and the social institutions and environment in which they do the interacting. These idealizations might be appropriate for the more foundational issues in epistemology, such as the theory of knowledge. However they become problematic when epistemologists address applied and practical topics, such as public ignorance about important political and scientific issues, or our obligations and responsibilities as inquirers. A solution to a problem like public ignorance that might work in an ideal world could be disastrous in the real world. Ways of interacting that would yield epistemic benefits in an epistemically just world might not be so beneficial in an epistemically unjust world.

Non-Ideal Epistemology

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Non-Ideal Epistemology

Non-Ideal Epistemology by Robin McKenna
English | July 18th, 2023 | ISBN: 019288882X | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.48 MB

Epistemologists often work with idealized pictures of what inquirers are like, how they interact with each other, and the social institutions and environment in which they do the interacting. These idealizations might be appropriate for the more foundational issues in epistemology, such as the theory of knowledge. However they become problematic when epistemologists address applied and practical topics, such as public ignorance about important political and scientific issues, or our obligations and responsibilities as inquirers. A solution to a problem like public ignorance that might work in an ideal world could be disastrous in the real world. Ways of interacting that would yield epistemic benefits in an epistemically just world might not be so beneficial in an epistemically unjust world.

Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

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Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments by Kevin McCain
English | August 3rd, 2021 | ISBN: 0367638738, 036763872X | 262 pages | True EPUB | 1.00 MB

In this new kind of entrée to contemporary epistemology, Kevin McCain presents fifty of the field’s most important puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Assuming no familiarity with epistemology from the reader, McCain titles each case with a memorable name, describes the details of the case, explains the issue(s) to which the case is relevant, and assesses its significance. McCain also briefly reviews the key responses to the case that have been put forward, and provides a helpful list of suggested readings on the topic. Each entry is accessible, succinct, and self-contained. Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments is a fantastic learning tool as well as a handy resource for anyone interested in epistemological issues.

Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science

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Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science

Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science by Debapriya Sarkar
English | April 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 151282335X | 280 pages | True EPUB | 13.62 MB

The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature―what early moderns termed poesie―in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Revealing how problems of epistemology are inextricable from questions of literary form, Sarkar offers a defense of poiesis, or literary making, as a vital philosophical endeavor.

The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

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The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy) by Ricki Bliss, J.T.M. Miller
English | July 14th, 2020 | ISBN: 1138082252, 036750958X | 500 pages | True EPUB | 1.79 MB

Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years. Perhaps nowhere are these discussions more developed than in relation to the field of metaphysics.

Thought under Threat: On Superstition, Spite, and Stupidity

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Thought under Threat: On Superstition, Spite, and Stupidity

Thought under Threat: On Superstition, Spite, and Stupidity by Miguel de Beistegui
2022 | ISBN: 0226815560 | English | 296 pages | EPUB | 0.8 MB

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan
English | September 21st, 2021 | ISBN: 0374248524 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 0.75 MB

"Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense."
—Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women