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Forthcoming Epistemology Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Popper’s Critical Rationalism

    A Philosophical Investigation

    By Darrell Rowbottom

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

    Popper’s Critical Rationalism presents Popper’s views on science, knowledge, and inquiry, and examines the significance and tenability of these in light of recent developments in philosophy of science, philosophy of probability, and epistemology. It develops a fresh and novel philosophical position...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Epistemology and the Regress Problem

    By Scott Aikin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the problem, evaluation of the options available for its solution is begun anew. Reason’s regress problem, roughly put, is that if one has good reasons...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Knowledge and Knowers

    Towards a realist sociology of education

    By Karl Maton

    We live in ‘knowledge societies’ and work in ‘knowledge economies’, but accounts of social change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral. While knowledge should be central to educational research, it focuses on processes of knowing and condemns studies of knowledge as essentialist. This book...

    To Be Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics

    From the True to the Good

    By Samuel C Wheeler

    Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

    Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world. Contemporary meta-ethics ignores questions...

    To Be Published August 18th 2013 by Routledge

  5. What is this thing called Knowledge?

    3rd Edition

    By Duncan Pritchard

    Series: What is this thing called?

    What is knowledge? Where does it come from? What kinds of knowledge are there? Can we know anything at all? This lucid and engaging introduction grapples with these central questions in the theory of knowledge, offering a clear, non-partisan view of the main themes of epistemology. Both...

    To Be Published September 8th 2013 by Routledge

  6. The Politics of Expertise

    By Stephen Turner

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    The problem of expertise is an important topic in contemporary science studies and increasingly important in philosophy, political studies, and sociology. Drawing on a global range of case studies, this volume provides an alternative to the developing standard interpretations of the...

    To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Understanding the Tacit

    By Stephen Turner

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    This volume explores the issue of tacit knowledge, showing how a topic that is central to cognitive science is relevant in important ways to science studies, social theory, and politics....

    To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Arts of Perception

    The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720

    By Jeremy Robbins

    Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracián, Quevedo, Calderón, Saavedra Fajardo, López de Vega, and Sor Juana. Reading these figures in the context of European...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Knowledge and Belief

    By Frederick F. Schmitt

    Series: Problems of Philosophy

    Knowledge, from Plato onwards, has been considered in relation to justified belief. Current debate has centred around the nature of the justification and whether justified belief can be considered an internal or extenal matter. Epistemological internalists argue that the subject must be able to...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications

    Edited by Bana Bashour, Hans D. Muller

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

    One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical categories such as metaphysics, epistemology and the mind. Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications is a unique and valuable contribution...

    To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge