Tracking Truth
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Tracking Truth
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Author : Sherrilyn Roush
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2005-11-10
Tracking Truth written by Sherrilyn Roush and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-10 with Philosophy categories.
Tracking Truth presents a unified treatment of knowledge, evidence, and epistemological realism and anti-realism about scientific theories. A wide range of knowledge-related phenomena, especially but not only in science, strongly favour the idea of tracking as the key to what makes something knowledge. A subject who tracks the truth - an idea first formulated by Robert Nozick - has the ability to follow the truth through time and changing circumstances. Epistemologists rightly concluded that Nozick's theory was not viable, but a simple revision of that view is not only viable but superior to other current views. In this new tracking account of knowledge, in contrast to the old view, knowledge has the property of closure under known implication, and troublesome counterfactuals are replaced with well-defined conditional probability statements. Of particular interest are the new view's treatment of skepticism, reflective knowledge, lottery propositions, knowledge of logical truth, and the question why knowledge is power in the Baconian sense. Ideally, evidence indicates a hypothesis and discriminates it from other possible hypotheses. This is the idea behind a tracking view of evidence, and Sherrilyn Roush provides a defence of a confirmation theory based on the Likelihood Ratio. The accounts of knowledge and evidence she offers provide a deep and seamless explanation of why having better evidence makes one more likely to have knowledge. Roush approaches the question of epistemological realism about scientific theories through the question what is required for evidence, and rejects both traditional realist and traditional anti-realist positions in favour of a new position which evaluates realist claims in a piecemeal fashion according to a general standard of evidence. The results show that while anti-realists were immodest in declaring a priori what science could not do, realists were excessively sanguine about how far our actual evidence has so far taken us.
The Sensitivity Principle In Epistemology
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Author : Kelly Becker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-02
The Sensitivity Principle In Epistemology written by Kelly Becker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-02 with Philosophy categories.
The sensitivity principle is a compelling idea in epistemology and is typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge. This collection of thirteen new essays constitutes a state-of-the-art discussion of this important principle. Some of the essays build on and strengthen sensitivity-based accounts of knowledge and offer novel defences of those accounts. Others present original objections to sensitivity-based accounts (objections that must be taken seriously even by those who defend enhanced versions of sensitivity) and offer comprehensive analysis and discussion of sensitivity's virtues and problems. The resulting collection will stimulate new debate about the sensitivity principle and will be of great interest and value to scholars and advanced students of epistemology.
Scepticism And Reliable Belief
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Author : José L. Zalabardo
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Scepticism And Reliable Belief written by José L. Zalabardo and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Philosophy categories.
In this book the author assesses the main arguments against the possibility of knowledge, and defends a reliabilist theory of knowledge that belongs firmly in the truth-tracking tradition.
The Sage Handbook Of Evolutionary Psychology
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Author : Todd K. Shackelford
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2020-11-25
The Sage Handbook Of Evolutionary Psychology written by Todd K. Shackelford and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-25 with Psychology categories.
Evolutionary psychology is an important and rapidly expanding area in the life, social, and behavioral sciences, and this Handbook represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference text in the field today. Chapters in this Handbook address theory and research that integrates evolutionary psychology with other life, social, and behavioral sciences, as well as with the humanities. The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in all areas of psychology, and in related disciplines across the life, social, and behavioral sciences. Part 1: Integration within Psychology Part 2: Integration with other Life, Social, and Behavioral Sciences Part 3: Integration with the Humanities
Philosophical Explanations
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Author : Robert Nozick
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1983-03-17
Philosophical Explanations written by Robert Nozick and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-03-17 with Philosophy categories.
Nozick develops new views on philosophy’s central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over philosophy’s fundamental concerns: the identity of the self, knowledge and skepticism, free will, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, the foundations of ethics, the meaning of life.
Naturalized Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Naturalized Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Much has happened in the field of contemporary epistemology since Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized” was published in 1969. Even before Ronald Giere published his article “Philosophy of Science Naturalized,” naturalized philosophy of science had been influenced by the so-called historical approach. Kuhm, Lakatos, Feyerabend and Laudan all contributed importantly to this trend. In this light it has emerged, without a doubt, that philosophy of science is closely related to epistemology. This volume explores some of the relevant relations and will be of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of science.
Image Analysis And Processing Iciap 2015
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Author : Vittorio Murino
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-20
Image Analysis And Processing Iciap 2015 written by Vittorio Murino and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with Computers categories.
The two-volume set LNCS 9279 and 9280 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2015, held in Genoa, Italy, in September 2015. The 129 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 231 submissions. The papers are organized in the following seven topical sections: video analysis and understanding, multiview geometry and 3D computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning, image analysis, detection and recognition, shape analysis and modeling, multimedia, and biomedical applications.
Smart Cameras
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Author : Ahmed Nabil Belbachir
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-10-20
Smart Cameras written by Ahmed Nabil Belbachir and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-20 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A smart camera is an integrated machine vision system which, in addition to image capture circuitry, includes a processor, which can extract information from images without need for an external processing unit, and interface devices used to make results available to other devices. This book provides content on smart cameras for an interdisciplinary audience of professionals and students in embedded systems, image processing, and camera technology. It serves as a self-contained, single-source reference for material otherwise found only in sources such as conference proceedings, journal articles, or product data sheets. Coverage includes the 50 year chronology of smart cameras, their technical evolution, the state-of-the art, and numerous applications, such as surveillance and monitoring, robotics, and transportation.
A New Science Of Religion
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Author : Gregory W. Dawes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
A New Science Of Religion written by Gregory W. Dawes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Religion categories.
There are contrasting theories that deal with different aspects of human religiosity - some focus on religious beliefs, while others focus on religious actions, and still others on the origin of religious ideas. While these theories might share a similar focus, there is plenty of disagreement in the explanations they offer. This volume examines the diversity of new scientific theories of religion, by outlining the logical and causal relationships between these enterprises. Are they truly in competition, as their proponents sometimes suggest, or are they complementary and mutually illuminating accounts of religious belief and practice?
Group Agency
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Author : Christian List
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-07
Group Agency written by Christian List and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with Law categories.
Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? How do we explain their behaviour? Can we treat them as accountable for their actions? List and Pettit offer original arguments, grounded in cutting-edge work on social choice, economics, and philosophy, to show there really are group agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them.