PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Economic science, despite its claim to status as the most mathematically formalised of the social sciences, rests on philosophical foundations whose neglect has produced recurrent intellectual and practical crises, from the methodological controversies of the late nineteenth century to the predictive failures surrounding the 2007–2008 global financial crisis and the present epistemic challenges of artificial intelli…

Reference · Wikidata

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Book · DOAB

This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new position in the debate between scientific realism and anti-realism. But there is a lot more to perspectivism than discussions in philosophy of science so far have suggested. Perspectivism is a much b…

Full text · Open Library

Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of…

Image · DPLA

Rationalism is the view that intuitions are a defeasible source of non-inferential justification. The first part of this dissertation is an exposition and defense of this view. I begin with an account of what it is for a proposition to seem true, arguing that seemings are a sui generis, irreducible propositional attitude that is importantly related to, yet distinct from, perceptual, memorial, and introspective exper…