Unknowability
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Unknowability
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Author : Nicholas Rescher
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Unknowability written by Nicholas Rescher and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
The realities of mankind's cognitive situation are such that our knowledge of the world's ways is bound to be imperfect. None the less, the theory of unknowability--agnoseology as some have called it--is a rather underdeveloped branch of philosophy. In this philosophically rich and groundbreaking work, Nicholas Rescher aims to remedy this. As the heart of the discussion is an examination of what Rescher identifies as the four prime reasons for the impracticability of cognitive access to certain facts about the world: developmental inpredictability, verificational surdity, ontological detail, and predicative vagrancy. Rescher provides a detailed and illuminating account of the role of each of these factors in limiting human knowledge, giving us an overall picture of the practical and theoretical limits to our capacity to know our world.
On The Borders Of Being And Knowing
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Author : John P. Doyle
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2012
On The Borders Of Being And Knowing written by John P. Doyle and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
On the Borders of Being and Knowing begins with Greeks distinguishing "being" from "something" and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of "supertranscendental being," which embraces both.
Knowledge And Its Limits
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Author : Timothy Williamson
language : en
Publisher: OUP UK
Release Date : 2002
Knowledge And Its Limits written by Timothy Williamson and has been published by OUP UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Philosophy categories.
Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a fundamental kind of mental state sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind, and breaks radically with the epistemological tradition of analysing knowledge in terms of true belief. The theory casts light on a wide variety of philosophical issues: the problem of scepticism, the nature of evidence, probability and assertion, the dispute between realism and anti-realism and the paradox of the surprise examination. Williamson relates the new conception to structural limits on knowledge which imply that what can be known never exhausts what is true. The arguments are illustrated by rigorous models based on epistemic logic and probability theory. The result is a new way of doing epistemology for the twenty-first century.
The Unknowable
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Author : W. J. Mander
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-18
The Unknowable written by W. J. Mander 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 2020-05-18 with Philosophy categories.
W. J. Mander presents a history of metaphysics in nineteenth-century Britain. The story focuses on the elaboration of, and differing reactions to, the concept of the unknowable or unconditioned, first developed by Sir William Hamilton in the 1829. The idea of an ultimate but unknowable way that things really are in themselves may be seen as supplying a narrative arc that runs right through the metaphysical systems of the period in question. These thought schemes may be divided into three broad groups which were roughly consecutive in their emergence but also overlapping as they continued to develop. In the first instance there were the doctrines of the agnostics who developed further Hamilton's basic idea that fundamental reality lies for the great part beyond our cognitive reach. These philosophies were followed immediately by those of the empiricists and, in the last third of the century, the idealists: both of these schools of thought—albeit in profoundly different ways—reacted against the epistemic pessimism of the agnostics. Mander offers close textual readings of the main contributions to First Philosophy made by the key philosophers of the period (such as Hamilton, Mansel, Spencer, Mill, and Bradley) as well as some less well known figures (such as Bain, Clifford, Shadworth Hodgson, Ferrier, and John Grote). By presenting, interpreting, criticising, and connecting together their various contrasting ideas, this book explains how the three traditions developed and interacted with one another to comprise the history of metaphysics in Victorian Britain.
Ghazali S Unique Unknowable God
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Author : Fadlou Shehadi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-05-06
Ghazali S Unique Unknowable God written by Fadlou Shehadi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-06 with History categories.
The Impact Of Aristotelianism On Modern Philosophy
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Author : Riccardo Pozzo
language : en
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Release Date : 2019-03-01
The Impact Of Aristotelianism On Modern Philosophy written by Riccardo Pozzo and has been published by Catholic University of America Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-01 with Philosophy categories.
This volume provides the first extensive assessment of the impact of Aristotelianism on the history of philosophy from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. The contributors have considered Aristotelian issues in late scholastic, Renaissance, and early modern philosophers such as Vernia, Nifo, Barbaro, Cajetan, Piccolomini, Patrizzi, Zabarella, Campanella, Galileo, Sémery, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Gadamer. Specific attention is given to the role of the five intellectual virtues set forth by Aristotle in book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics, namely art, prudence, science, wisdom, and intellect.
Ghazali S Unique Unknowable God
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Author : Fadlou Albert Shehadi
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1959
Ghazali S Unique Unknowable God written by Fadlou Albert Shehadi and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with God (Islam) categories.
Being Known
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Author : Christopher Peacocke
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999
Being Known written by Christopher Peacocke 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 1999 with Philosophy categories.
Christopher Peacocke examines the problem of knowing whether human beings can really know about the past, about what they are thinking, about what might be and whether freedom is really possible.
Atheism At The Agora
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Author : James C Ford
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-11
Atheism At The Agora written by James C Ford and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-11 with History categories.
This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was ‘unthinkable’ in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a wide range of source material provided in modern English translation, and drawing on philosophy, theology, sociology, and other disciplines, Ford unpicks a two and a half thousand-year history of marginalisation, clearing the way for a new analysis. He lays out in clear terms the nature and form of ancient Greek atheism as the ancient Greeks conceived of it, through a series of themes and lenses. Topics such as religious socialisation, the interaction of atheist philosophy and theology, identity formation through alterity, and the use of atheism in scapegoating are considered not only in broad terms, using a synthesis of modern scholarship to mark out an overview in line with modern consensus, but also by drawing on the unique perspective of ancient atheism Ford is able to provide innovative theories about a range of subjects. Atheism at the Agora is of interest to students and scholars in Classics, particularly Greek religion and culture, as well as those studying atheism in other historical and contemporary areas, religious studies, philosophy, and theology.
The Unknowable In Early Modern Thought
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Author : Kevin Killeen
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-27
The Unknowable In Early Modern Thought written by Kevin Killeen and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense that humans encountered only an incomplete reality. Ranging from Paradise Lost to thinkers in and around the Royal Society and commentary on the Book of Job, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought explores how the era of the scientific revolution was in part paralyzed by and in part energized by the paradox it encountered in thinking about the elusive nature of God and the unfathomable nature of the natural world. Looking at writers with scientific, literary and theological interests, from the shoemaker mystic, Jacob Boehme to John Milton, from Robert Boyle to Margaret Cavendish, and from Thomas Browne to the fiery prophet, Anna Trapnel, Kevin Killeen shows how seventeenth-century writings redeployed the rich resources of the ineffable and the apophatic—what cannot be said, except in negative terms—to think about natural philosophy and the enigmas of the natural world.