Knowledge

  • Knowledge: Is Knowledge Power?
    By Marian Adolf, Nico Stehr

    Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, John W. Meyer, Evan Schofer and Nancy Brandon Tuma (1999) “The rationalization and organization of nature in world culture,” pp. 81–99 in John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds), Constructing World Culture: ...

  • Knowledge
    By Ian Evans, Nicholas D. Smith

    Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers. Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith aim to change that.

  • Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction
    By Jennifer Nagel

    How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years.

  • Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction
    By Jennifer Nagel

    ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.

  • Knowledge: Living and Working with It
    By Anthon P. Botha

    Inspired by today's world of increasingly available knowledge and rapidly changing access to it, this book examines the challenges of decision making when knowledge expands faster than we can learn, analyzes how knowledge changes shape ...

  • Knowledge
    By Michael Welbourne

    This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in epistemology, the philosophy of language, or the intersection between the two areas.

  • Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History
    By Steve Fuller

    A wide-ranging and historically-informed assessment of the ways in which man has - and continues to - pursue, question, contest, expand and shape knowledge, this book is essential reading anyone in the Humanities and Social Sciences ...

  • Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History
    By Steve Fuller

    Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History

  • Knowledge: Critical Concepts
    By Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann

    The increasing investment in scientific knowledge, in its production, distribution and reproduction, is acquiring greater social significance.