Foundationalism is the view that philosophical propositions are of two kinds those which need supporting evidence and those which in themselves provide the evidence which renders them irrefutable. This book originally published 1988 describes the battle between foun... Lees meer.

This book offers an original examination of human cognition arguing that cognitive skills are dispositional in nature. Opposing influential views in modern Anglo-American philosophy Gundersen starts from the received premis that knowledge is analyzable in terms of bel... Lees meer.

Description. By Good and Necessary Consequence presents a critical examination of the reasoning behind the good and necessary consequence clause in the Westminster Confession of Faith and makes five observations regarding its suitability for contemporary Reformed and... Lees meer.

Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath investigates the ways in which Marx Durkheim Althusser and Habermas are all drawn towards foundationalism and offers a framework for the analysis of foundationalism in social theory. Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath in... Lees meer.

This book offers the reader a guide to the major philosophical approaches to science since World War Two. Considering the bases arguments and conclusions of the four main movements Logical Reconstructionism Descriptivism Normative Naturalism and Foundationalism J... Lees meer.

Such is the clarity of its exposition and interest of its argument that it can be recommended to those seeking an introduction to recent work in epistemology . The interest of the book however is greater than that. For the discussion of foundationalism and of recen... Lees meer.

This book discusses the powerful attack on foundationalism by Reformed epistemologists in recent years. It examines some theological forms of foundationalism and explores what happens when turning from foundationalism to examine concept-formation in religious belief.... Lees meer.

This book offers the reader a guide to the major philosophical approaches to science since World War Two. Considering the bases arguments and conclusions of the four main movements Logical Reconstructionism Descriptivism Normative Naturalism and Foundationalism J... Lees meer.

This book offers the reader a guide to the major philosophical approaches to science since World War Two. Considering the bases arguments and conclusions of the four main movements Logical Reconstructionism Descriptivism Normative Naturalism and Foundationalism J... Lees meer.

Major shifts in the field of model theory in the twentieth century have seen the development of new tools methods and motivations for mathematicians and philosophers. In this book John T. Baldwin places the revolution in its historical context from the ancient Greek... Lees meer.

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By Good and Necessary Consequence presents a critical examination of the reasoning behind the good and necessary consequence clause in the Westminster Confession of Faith and makes five observations regarding its suitability for contemporary Reformed and evangelical a... Lees meer.

The first book length study of agonism as a mature account of democratic politics Institutionalizing Agonistic Democracy provides a lucid overview of agonistic democratic theories and demonstrates the viability of this approach for institutional politics. Situating ago... Lees meer.

In its discussion of various theories of knowledge this text explores several areas. the general idea underlying modal epistemology modal theories and warranted belief tracking dispositionality masking mimicking and altering and a dispositional theory and warrant... Lees meer.

In recent years methodology debates in the social sciences have increasingly focussed on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate. In recent years methodological debates in the social sciences have increas... Lees meer.