In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

The debate over the nature of knowledge has long contended with the distinction between theoretical understanding (knowing that) and the capacity to perform tasks (knowing how). This research topic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; ...

Problem solving has recently become a central topic both in the philosophy of science and in cognitive science. This paper integrates approaches to problem solving from these two disciplines and ...

IT would have been a real treat for philosophers to have a genuine study of Plato's “Theory of Knowledge” by Prof. Cornford. As it stands, however, the title of the book is misleading as it offers no ...

In their letter “The Virtues of the ‘Knowledge Theory of Value’” (May 1), Gale Pooley and George Gilder emphasize the importance of knowledge in economic value. In doing so, however, they provide ...