The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid advances in our knowledge of living systems and of their genetic and algorithmic codes coupled with the global expansion of a kno...(展开全部)

Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds, in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in fundamental moral convictions? And what are the associated problems of using testimony as a source of moral knowledge? Sarah Mc...(展开全部)

A ground-breaking innovation in epistemology Moss shows how the idea of probabilistic knowledge and belief illuminates issues in many areas of philosophy Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs. Sarah Moss argues that in addition to full beliefs, credences can constitute knowledge. For instance, your 0.4 credence t...(展开全部)

In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual engagements with film and other media, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visua...(展开全部)

This authored book provides an innovative and systematic account of key debates within the social psychology of knowledge, using the theory of social representations as a guide. This account is then elaborated and integrated into a conceptually coherent theoretical framework to further the social psychological dimensions of the relationship between representations, knowledge an...(展开全部)

Is self-knowledge is a form of 'privileged access' limited to knowledge of one's mind? Is self-knowledge the same thing as introspection? How do I acquire self-knowledge in the first place? What is the relationship between self-knowledge and personal identity? The problem of self-knowledge is one of the most important of all philosophical puzzles and is closely connected to imp...(展开全部)

As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of epistemological histories that see...(展开全部)

Elucidates the difference knowledge makes to our existence as civilized people. Advancing detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge, Knowledge and Civilization offers a new, original way of framing philosophical questions about knowledge. It describes a redirection in the philosophy of knowledge, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ec...(展开全部)