An Introduction to Contemporary German Philosophy

Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, Third Edition (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

Contents Preface to the first edition xiii Acknowledgments to the first edition xvi Preface to the second edition xviii Acknowledgments to the second edition xx Preface to the third edition xxi Acknowledgments to the third edition xxii Introduction: a sketch of the sources and nature of belief, justification, and knowledge 1 Perception, belief, and justification 1 Justification as process, as s...

An Introduction to Contemporary Theories of Content

This paper is intended to introduce advanced students of philosophy of mind to central theories and concepts that have been used to characterize mental meaning, content, and representation. I initially provide relevant historical background. Then I discuss the ubiquitous sense/reference distinction suggested by Frege. Finally, I outline the three major kinds of contemporary theories of mental r...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

logical possibility, be two things which had exactly the same predicates, in the narrow sense in which we have been using the word “predicate.” How does our axiom look when we pass beyond predicates in this narrow sense? In the actual world there seems no way of doubting its empirical truth as regards particulars, owing to spatio-temporal differentiation: no two particulars have exactly the sam...

Introduction to Philosophy

There are many different kinds of philosophy. For example, there is Indian philosophy (which has its roots in the ancient body of oral tradition known as the Veda), Islamic philosophy, Japanese philosophy and Chinese philosophy. However, none of these have had any real influence on the scientific tradition in which cognitive science has grown up. That scientific tradition is Western science and...