This volume brings together essays from several different perspectives on a topic in epistemology that is garnering increased attention: Inquiry. It is the first volume focused solely on philosophical issues related to inquiry.Inquiry is a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198925156)
The Rational Inquirer offers an original account of the rational response to peer disagreement in terms of a duty to double-check ones initial conclusions and a permission to retain an inquiry-directing attitude of hypothesis toward those c...Lasīt vairāk
The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry me...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517918521)
Idiosyncratic essays use their exploded forms to examine how inquiry functions Insect galls, time, memory systems, orgone energy, and a bookstore that doesnt yet exist. These disparate topics have persistently fascinated scho...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517918514)
In Exploded Views, Jonathan P. Eburne returns to five previously abandoned essays with the metaphorical tool of the exploded-view diagram, expanding them into entirely new, hybrid forms that unpack their inspirations and trace the wayward paths they...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231218610)
After the Human explores how the strategies and methods of scientific as well as humanistic inquiry are converging to construct a relational view of the world. It evaluates Einsteins theory of relativity, quantum theory, information theory, cogniti...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231218603)
The world is on fire and time for avoiding impending disaster is rapidly running out. This catastrophe has deeply entrenched foundations: a belief in human exceptionalism and human mastery over the Earth. Accelerating technological changes ranging fr...Lasīt vairāk
Some ideas seem to possess a disproportionate ability to lead to new insights, new discoveries, new ideas, and even entirely new ways of thinking. Such ideas are said to be fruitful. Looking across the history of science and mathematics, we see crea...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198886143)
Recent work in the epistemology of inquiry transcends traditional epistemology, asking how agents should collect and assess evidence in order to decide what to believe. Thorstad links the epistemology of inquiry to the study of bounded rationality, p...Lasīt vairāk
Humans constantly search for and use information to solve a wide range of problems related to survival, social interactions, and learning. While it is clear that curiosity and the drive for knowledge occupies a central role in defining what being hum...Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that our current lack of recognising and understanding the different forms meta-theorising takes hampers the ways in which fruitful engagement between meta-theories can be conducted. It proposes a radical break with...Lasīt vairāk
A guide to fundamental issues in designing interactive visualizations, exploring ideas of inquiry, design, structured data, and usability.Interactive visualization is emerging as a vibrant new form of communication, providing compellin...Lasīt vairāk
Aristotle is a rarity in the history of philosophy and science - he is a towering figure in the history of both disciplines. Moreover, he devoted a great deal of philosophical attention to the nature of scientific knowledge. How then do his philosoph...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Feb-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526167194)
Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research. This book makes the case for a pr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Feb-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198823766)
Reason and Inquiry: The Erotetic Theory presents a unified theory of the human capacity for reasoning and decision-making. The erotetic theory accounts for a diverse range of empirically documented fallacies and framing effects. It shows how...Lasīt vairāk
Imagination in Inquiry investigates the nature, kinds, component elements, functions, scope, and uses of the imagination that are at work in inquiry. It develops a homeostatic model and discusses its applications in various branches of philosophy, f...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Jun-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316515907)
Humans constantly search for and use information to solve a wide range of problems related to survival, social interactions, and learning. While it is clear that curiosity and the drive for knowledge occupies a central role in defining what being hum...Lasīt vairāk
