Author: Michael Huemer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contemporary, readings, philosophy, routledge, epistemology
Number of Pages: 619
Published: 2002-05-31
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415259215
ISBN-13: 9780415259217

Epistemology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major themes in epistemology. The book begins with an extended introduction by Robert Audi, one of the leading experts in the field of epistemology in which he sets the stage for the themes of the reader. Each section is prefaced by an introductory essay by the editor. Works include those by Russell, Hume, Berkeley, Quine, Carnap, Nozick, Putnam, Moore, Plato, BonJour, Coady, Carroll, Fumerton, Edwards, Foster, Howson, Urbach, Stove, Empiricus, Oakley, Alston, Gettier, Clar

Author: Michael Huemer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: cognitive, theory, unnumbered, epistemology, studies, veil, perception, skepticism
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2001-07-17
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0742512533
ISBN-13: 9780742512535

Since Descartes, one of the central questions of Western philosophy has been that of how we know that the objects we seem to perceive are real. Philosophical skeptics claim that we know no such thing. Representationalists claim that we can gain such knowledge only by inference, by showing that the hypothesis of a real world is the best explanation for the kind of sensations and mental images we experience. Both accept the doctrine of a ’veil of perception’: that perception can only give us direct awareness of images or representations of objects, not the external objects themselves

Author: Michael Huemer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: intuitionism, ethical
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0230573746
ISBN-13: 9780230573741

A defense of ethical intuitionism where (i) there are objective moral truths; (ii) we know these through an immediate, intellectual awareness, or "intuition"; and (iii) knowing them gives us reasons to act independent of our desires. The author rebuts the major objections to this theory and shows the difficulties in alternative theories of ethics.

Author: Michael Huemer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contemporary, readings, philosophy, routledge, epistemology
Number of Pages: 619
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0415259207
ISBN-13: 9780415259200

This comprehensive anthology draws together classic and contemporary readings by leading philosophers on epistemology. Ideal for any philosophy student, it will prove essential reading for epistemology courses, and is designed to complement Robert Audi’s textbook Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1998).Themes covered include, perception, memory, inductive inference, reason and the a priori, the architecture of knowledge, skepticism, the analysis of knowledge, testimony. Each section begins with an introductory essay, guiding students into the topic.Includes articles b

Authors:Christina Huemer, Pierluigi Petrobelli, W. Oliver St
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Keywords: festschrift, series, scholar, teacher, oliver, strunk, remembering
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1576471020
ISBN-13: 9781576471029

Authors:Michael Grosser, Michael Kunzinger, Michael Oberguge
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: applications, general, mathematics, relativity, functions, theory, generalized, geometric
Number of Pages: 521
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1402001452
ISBN-13: 9781402001451

This work provides the first comprehensive introduction to the nonlinear theory of generalized functions (in the sense of Colombeau’s construction) on differentiable manifolds. Particular emphasis is laid on a diffeomorphism invariant geometric approach to embedding the space of Schwartz distributions into algebras of generalized functions. The foundations of a `nonlinear distributional geometry’ are developed, supplying a solid base for an increasing number of applications of algebras of generalized functions to questions of a primarily geometric mature, in particular in m

Authors:Michael Oberguggenberger, Michael Grosser, Michael
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: notes, mathematics, series, research, functions, theory, generalized, nonlinear
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-03-16
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 0849306493
ISBN-13: 9780849306495

Questions regarding the interplay of nonlinearity and the creation and propagation of singularities arise in a variety of fields-including nonlinear partial differential equations, noise-driven stochastic partial differential equations, general relativity, and geometry with singularities. A workshop held at the Erwin-Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna investigated these questions and culminated in this volume of invited papers from experts in the fields of nonlinear partial differential equations, structure theory of generalized functions, geometry and gene