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This stimulating collection is devoted to the life and work of the most flamboyant of twentieth-century philosophers, Paul Feyerabend. Feyerabend's radical epistemological claims, and his stunning argument that there is no such thing as scientific method, were highly influential during his life and ...

This stimulating collection is devoted to the life and work of the most flamboyant of twentieth-century philosophers, Paul Feyerabend. Feyerabend's radical epistemological claims, and his stunning argument that there is no such thing as scientific method, were highly influential during his life and have only gained attention since his death in 1994. The essays that make up this volume, written by some of today's most respected philosophers of science, many of whom knew Feyerabend as students and colleagues, cover the diverse themes in his extensive body of work and present a personal account of this fascinating thinker.

Cory, Gardner, and their contributors argue that how the brain is constructed determines how people behave socially. This has been a neglected thesis, except for a few pioneers, of whom Paul MacLean has been most outstanding. His animal observations, brain research, and evolutionary formulations ...

Cory, Gardner, and their contributors argue that how the brain is constructed determines how people behave socially. This has been a neglected thesis, except for a few pioneers, of whom Paul MacLean has been most outstanding. His animal observations, brain research, and evolutionary formulations have formed the basis of new important initiatives discussed in this collection.

Materialism or 'physicalism' has become the common background against which contemporary scientists and philosophers investigate the world. The doctrine that all phenomena are physical forms the basis of much current thinking in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, the theory of meaning ...

Materialism or 'physicalism' has become the common background against which contemporary scientists and philosophers investigate the world. The doctrine that all phenomena are physical forms the basis of much current thinking in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, the theory of meaning, and the theory of value. Contemporary Materialism brings together key articles by many leading contemporary philosophers.The contemporary classics included in this collection chart problems, positions and themes concerning the issue of materialism. To bring the collection up-to-date, each author was invited to provide a follow-up piece designed to assess the progress and development of the field since the first appearance of the contemporary classic. Many of the contributors have supplied these useful follow-up pieces.The editors have provided a substantial introduction to guide the students through the major themes. The selections themselves are largely non-technical and accessible. Contemporary Materialism will be vital reading for anyone concerned with the wide-ranging impact of materialism on contemporary philosophy.

Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most important topics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested in the interdisciplinary study of mind will find the selections well worth reading, they work particularly well with Paul Thagard's textbook Mind: An ...

Mind Readings is a collection of accessible readings on some of the most important topics in cognitive science. Although anyone interested in the interdisciplinary study of mind will find the selections well worth reading, they work particularly well with Paul Thagard's textbook Mind: An Introduction Cognitive Science, and provide further discussion on the major topics discussed in that book. The first eight chapters present approaches to cognitive science from the perspective that thinking consists of computational procedures on mental representations. The remaining five chapters discuss challenges to the computational-representational understanding of mind. Contributors: John R. Anderson, Ruth M. J. Byrne, E. H. Durfee, Chris Eliasmith, Owen Flanagan, Dedre Gentner, Janice Glasgow, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Alan Mackworth, Arthur B. Markman, Douglas L. Medin, Keith Oatley, Dimitri Papadias, Steven Pinker, David E. Rumelhart, Herbert A. Simon.

Chapter 1: Epistemology: A First Look 1. Why Study Knowledge? 2. Some Doubts about Knowledge 3. Traditional Definition of Knowledge 4. Knowledge and Experience 5. Intuitions and Theory Chapter 2: Explaining Knowledge 1. The Scope of Epistemology 2. The Concept of Knowledge 3 ...

Chapter 1: Epistemology: A First Look 1. Why Study Knowledge? 2. Some Doubts about Knowledge 3. Traditional Definition of Knowledge 4. Knowledge and Experience 5. Intuitions and Theory Chapter 2: Explaining Knowledge 1. The Scope of Epistemology 2. The Concept of Knowledge 3. Epistemology, Naturalism, and Pragmatism 4. Value in Epistemology Chapter 3: Belief 1. Belief and Representational States 2. Belief and Belief-Ascription 3. Are Beliefs Transparent? 4. Belief and Theoretical Ideals 5. Eliminativism and Prediction Chapter 4: Truth 1. Relativism 2. Truth and Correspondence 3. Truth and Coherence 4. Truth and Pragmatic Value 5. Kinds and Notions of Truth Chapter 5: Jusitification and Beyond 1. Justifications, Truth and Defeat 2. Inferential Justification and the Regress Problem 3. Supplementing Justification: The Gettier Problem Chapter 6: Sources of Knowledge 1. Rationalism, Empiricism, and Innatissm 2. Empiricism, Positivism, and Underdetermination 3. Intuitions and First-Person Reports 4. Memory 5. Theoretical Unification 6. Testimony and Social Dependence Chapter 7: Rationality 1. Preliminary Distinctions 2. Rational Inference: Normative and Descriptive 3. Consistency and Wayward Beliefs 4. Rationality and Decision Under Uncertainty 5. Integrative Considerations about Rationality Chapter 8: Skepticism 1. Some Species of Skepticism 2. Some Skeptical Arguments 3. A Reply from Common Sense 4. Skepticism, Naturalism, and Broad Explanation Chapter 9: Epistemology and Explanation 1. Origins of Contemporary Epistemology 2. Ultimate Epistemological Authority 3. Explanation and Knowledge References For Further Reading Glossary Index