In his new foreword to this edition, Hilary Putnam forcefully rejects these nativist claims.

Edmund Gettier is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This short piece, published in 1963, seemed to many decisively to refute an otherwise attractive analysis of knowledge. It stimulated a renewed effort, still ongoing, to clarify exactly what knowledge comprises.

Scientific reasoning is—and ought to be—conducted in accordance with the axioms of probability. This Bayesian view—so called because of the central role it accords to a theorem first proved by Thomas Bayes in the late eighteenth ...

[This book] develops an account of rationality and justice that is tradition specific.-http://undpress.nd.edu.

In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.

The Primacy of Caring is unique and remarkable, not only because it eludes classification within the curricular and practice arenas of professional nursing, but also because it offers a totally new view of stress, coping, and caring. The authors define and describe the essence of nursing practice, and make visible and powerful the hidden expertise of that practice.