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The Power and Limits of Reason: Al-Rāzī on the Possibility of General and Particular Metaphysical Knowledge [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2021 This article examines al-Rāzī’s views on the possibility of metaphysical knowledge. Firstly, after outlining his classification of the metaphysical knowable into essence and existence as well as undetailed (ijmālī) and detailed (taf~īlī), the article ...
Eşref Altaş
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Knowledge, perception and analysis [PDF]
, 2008 A point that Strawson often emphasized in his writings is that the concepts of knowledge and perception are closely linked. For example, the idea of such a link does important work in his exposition and defence of a causal analysis of perception ...
Cassum, Q +2 more
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Knowledge: Value on the Cheap [PDF]
, 2013 We argue that the so-called ‘Primary’ and ‘Secondary’ Value Problems for knowledge are more easily solved than is widely appreciated. Pritchard, for instance, has suggested that only virtue-theoretic accounts have any hopes of adequately addressing these
Jarvis, Benjamin +2 more
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Collaborative knowledge management—A construction case study [PDF]
, 2009 Due to the new threats and challenges faced by the construction industry today, construction companies must seek new solutions in order to remain ahead of the competition. Knowledge has been identified to be a significant organisational resource, which
Bhargav Dave +5 more
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Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2021 High mountain environments have long been considered to be devoid of life. If science has been a relevant means of legitimization and narrative from the very first explorations of high altitudes, life sciences (biology, ecology) have occupied only a ...
Cedric Dentant +3 more
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Temporal validity as meta-science
Research & Politics, 2023 The “credibility revolution” has forced quantitative social scientists to confront the limits of our methods for creating general knowledge. As a result, many practitioners aim to generate valid but local knowledge and then synthesize and apply that ...
Kevin Munger
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Mind the gap! Musicians challenging limits of birdsong knowledge
Relations, 2014 When contemporary musicians work with animal sounds, they are often not only interested in the sound qualities but moreover in the animals’ musical capacities.
Susanne Heiter
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Knowledge, reason, noumenon: The rational legitimacy of religious belief and meta-empirical thought in the light of Kant's critique of Pure Reason [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualThe objective of this contribution is to present a counterargument to the view that religious faith is inherently incompatible with reason due to its lack of scientific evidence.
Marchegiani Giulio
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Inductive Knowability of the Modal: Limits to Feel Good About [PDF]
This paper scrutinises the limits of a posteriori induction in acquiring modal knowledge. I focus on my similarity-based account (2017); an inductive, non-rationalist epistemology of modality about concrete entities. Despite the explanatory merits of the
Roca Royes, Sonia
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Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire
Text Matters, 2016 It has become a truism in discussions of Imperialist literature to state that the British empire was, in a very significant way, a textual exercise. Empire was simultaneously created and perpetuated through a proliferation of texts (governmental, legal ...
Karen E. Macfarlane
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