Epistemologi & kunskapsteori

Bodil Jönsson pekar framåt mot en kunskapsrenässans. Valrörelsen i USA fick många av oss att känna det som om hjärtat satt i halsgropen. Skulle verkligen falska ryktesspridningar på nätet kombinerade med intensiv hets mellan olika grupper kunna om...

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Varför borde ekonomer studera filosofi och litteratur? Hur hänger samtidskonst och skönlitteratur ihop med lärande? Och hur kan ett bildningsideal för vår tid se ut? Kunskap som känns är en lovsång till att vidga sina vyer. Lars Strannegård visar ...

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The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and friendship-attracted legions of adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. T...

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What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch ...

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Världen som vilja och föreställning är Arthur Schopenhauer s stora, filosofiska livsverk. Hans filosofi erbjuder en världsåskådning, ett sätt att betrakta tillvaron i dess helhet, utifrån en metafysisk grund. Hos honom kombineras västerländsk filo...

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Kvalitativa metoder helt enkelt! är en antologi skriven av kvalitativa forskare som var och en har lång och gedigen erfarenhet av just kvalitativ metod. I boken beskrivs exempelvis olika typer av intervjuer, fenomenologi, grundad teori, innehållsa...

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The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertainty What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? W...

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Bodil Jönsson pekar framåt mot en kunskapsrenässans. Valrörelsen i USA fick många av oss att känna det som om hjärtat satt i halsgropen. Skulle verkligen falska ryktesspridningar på nätet kombinerade med intensiv hets mellan olika grupper kunna om...

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Now revised and containing three new chapters, this book provides a clear and accessible introduction to epistemology, or the theory of knowledge. It discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, rel...

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An extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extraordinary book explores the deep connections between these strands which reveal the fabric of reali...

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Now revised and containing three new chapters, this book provides a clear and accessible introduction to epistemology, or the theory of knowledge. It discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, rel...

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Why should economists study philosophy and literature? How are contemporary art and fiction related to learning? What might an educational ideal for our age look like? Senses of Knowing is a celebration of broadened horizons. Inside, Lars Stranneg...

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What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch ...

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'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life ...

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'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, Guardian Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Dea...

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Tänk dig en värld utan experter. Lite skönt att slippa alla besserwissrar och förståsigpåare, kanske? Men om alla experter försvann skulle du nog snabbt bli rätt vilsen. För det är ju ofta experter som leder dig rätt. Både när du vill kontrollera ...

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Kant's profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason is the central text of modern philosophy In his landmark work Kant argues that reason is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but w...

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Den gängse filosofin hävdar att subjektet och förnuftet måste få härska -- i människans namn. Men blir den verkliga människan mindre mänsklig, om vi berövar den abstrakta människan hennes ställning som förklaringsfaktor till allting? Det är Foucau...

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This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and...

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Examine the inner workings of the mind and learn what consciousness and a sense of self really means - and if it even exists. We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, ...

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Finns det alternativa fakta? Är kunskap en social konstruktion? Kan något vara sant för mig men inte för dig, eller är sanning något objektivt? Åsa Wikforss, professor i teoretisk filosofi, undersöker det omdiskuterade fenomenet kunskapsresistens ...

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David J. Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements. He develops and extends Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt (1928). Carnap gave a blueprint for descri...

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In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces - ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, m...

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Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances...

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*Available for pre-order: a definitive guide to thinking clearly in a world full of overwhelming information* __________ In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we m...

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This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas throug...

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