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Essays in Psychology and Epistemology

Author : Harry Settanni
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819199805
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Psychology and Epistemology written by Harry Settanni and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1995 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven essays in this comprehensive volume address a broad and diverse range of topics including aesthetics, logic, philosophical psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of law, metaphysics and epistemology. Despite its approach to a number of topics, Essays in Psychology and Epistemology has a pervasive theme. The book concerns itself with man, his psychology and his epistemology and the perennial contemporary problems of himself and his knowledge of the world around him. Contents: Where is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?; What is Logic?; The Immortality of the Soul; Contemporary Century Science and the World Around It; Is Legal Evidence Testable?; Idealism Reconsidered; Knowledge and Experience

Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment

Author : Michael A. Bishop
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195162295
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment written by Michael A. Bishop and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bishop & Trout present a new approach to epistemoloy, aiming to liberate the subject from the 'scholastic' debates of analytic philosophy. Rather, they wish to treat epistemology as a branch of the philosophy of science.

Brainstorms

Author : Daniel Clement Dennett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262540377
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Brainstorms written by Daniel Clement Dennett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. The essays are grouped into four sections: Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood.

A Theory of Content and Other Essays

Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : Bradford Books
ISBN 13 : 9780262560696
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Content and Other Essays written by Jerry A. Fodor and published by Bradford Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new and previously published essays reflects the major research and thought of one of today's preeminent philosophers of mind. The first seven essays are philosophical pieces that focus on mental representation and the foundations of intentionality; they are followed by four psychological essays on cognitive architecture. In his eloquent introduction, Fodor shows how the two areas are thematically united and epistemologically related, highlighting his interest in finding alternatives to holistic accounts of cognitive content.

Brainstorms, Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026253438X
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Brainstorms, Fortieth Anniversary Edition written by Daniel C. Dennett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anniversary edition of a classic in cognitive science, with a new introduction by the author. When Brainstorms was published in 1978, the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science was just emerging. Daniel Dennett was a young scholar who wanted to get philosophers out of their armchairs—and into conversations with psychologists, linguists, computer scientists. This collection of seventeen essays by Dennett offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling intuitions. The essays are grouped into four sections: “Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality”; “The Nature of Theory in Psychology”; “Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience”; and “Free Will and Personhood.” This anniversary edition includes a new introduction by Dennett, “Reflections on Brainstorms after Forty Years,” in which he recalls the book's original publication by Harry and Betty Stanton of Bradford Books and considers the influence and afterlife of some of the essays. For example, “Mechanism and Responsibility” was Dennett's first articulation of his concept of the intentional stance; “Are Dreams Experiences?” anticipates the major ideas in his 1991 book Consciousness Explained; and “Where Am I?” has been variously represented in a BBC documentary, a student's Javanese shadow puppet play, and a feature-length film made in the Netherlands, Victim of the Brain.

Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics

Author : Gisela Striker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521476416
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics written by Gisela Striker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on key questions debated by Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period.

Epistemology and Psychology of Functions

Author : J. Piaget
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789027708045
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Epistemology and Psychology of Functions written by J. Piaget and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1977 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years ago, prompted by Grize, Apostel and Papert, we undertook the study of functions, but until now we did not properly understand the relations between functions and operations, and their increasing interactions at the level of 'constituted functions'. By contrast, certain recent studies on 'constitutive functions', or preoperatory functional schemes, have convinced us of the existence of a sort of logic of functions (springing from the schemes of actions) which is prior to the logic of operations (drawn from the general and reversible coordinations between actions). This preoperatory 'logic' accounts for the very general, and until now unexplained, primacy of order relations between 4 and 7 years of age, which is natural since functions are ordered dependences and result from oriented 'applications'. And while this 'logic' ends up in a positive manner in formalizable structures, it has gaps or limitations. Psychologically, we are interested in understanding the systemƯ atic errors due to this primacy of order, such ·as the undifferentiation of 'longer' and 'farther', or the non-conservations caused by ordinal estimations (of levels, etc.), as opposed to extensive or metric evaluations. In a sense which is psychologically very real, this preoperatory logic of constitutive functions represents only the first half of operatory logic, if this can be said, and it is reversibility which allows the construction of the other half by completing the initial one-way structures.

Becoming Someone New

Author : Enoch Lambert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192556959
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Someone New written by Enoch Lambert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know—aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable. How do you decide whether to take up the offer? Several philosophers have recently argued that we are in similar situations for more of our decisions than we usually recognize. Are they right? What resources can we draw on to create such situations? Are they enough to satisfy our aims of making the best decisions we can, especially in high stakes situations? This volume brings together philosophers and psychologists to investigate the phenomenon of transformative change and a host of fascinating questions it prompts. Taking their departure from seminal work on transformative choice and experience by L. A. Paul and Edna Ullmann-Margalit, the authors pursue fundamental questions concerning the nature of rationality, the limits of the imagination, and the metaphysics of the self. They also strike out into new areas, including value theory, aesthetics, moral and political philosophy. Several chapters present the results of experimental investigation into the psychology of transformation, self-concept, and moral learning.

Functions

Author : André Ariew
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Functions written by André Ariew and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes the following features: a hot topic; eminent contributors; brings together philosophy, biology, and psychology; all essays specially written for this volume

Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind

Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019162506X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind written by Jaegwon Kim and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and the nonexistence of laws in the special sciences. Among other topics covered are emergence and emergentism, the nature of explanation and of theories of explanation, reduction and reductive explanation, mental causation and explanatory exclusion. Kim tackles questions such as: How should we understand the concept of "emergence", and what are the prospects of emergentism as a doctrine about the status of minds? What does an agent-centered, first-person account of explanation of human actions look like? Why aren't there strict laws in the special sciences - sciences like biology, psychology, and sociology? The essays will be accessible to attentive readers without an extensive philosophical background.

Essays in Radical Empiricism

Author : William James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Radical Empiricism written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Common Mind

Author : Philip Pettit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198026617
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Common Mind written by Philip Pettit and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes human beings intentional and thinking subjects? How does their intentionality and thought connect with their social nature and their communal experience? How do the answers to these questions shape the assumptions which it is legitimate to make in social explanation and political evaluation? These are the broad-ranging issues which Pettit addresses in this novel study. The Common Mind argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects, in particular human beings, from other intentional systems, natural and artificial. It holds by the holistic view that human thought requires communal resources while denying that this social connection compromises the autonomy of individuals. And, in developing the significance of this view of social subjects--this holistic individualism--it outlines a novel framework for social and political theory. Within this framework, social theory is allowed to follow any of a number of paths: space is found for intentional interpretation and decision-theoretic reconstruction, for structural explanation and rational choice derivation. But political theory is treated less ecumenically. The framework raises serious questions about contractarian and atomistic modes of thought and it points the way to a republican rethinking of liberal commitments.

A Theory of Content and Other Essays

Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262061308
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Content and Other Essays written by Jerry A. Fodor and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new and previously published essays reflects the major research and thought of one of today's preeminent philosophers of mind. The first seven essays are philosophical pieces that focus on mental representation and the foundations of intentionality; these are followed by four psychological essays on cognitive architecture. In his eloquent introduction Fodor shows how the two areas are thematically united and epistemologically related, highlighting his concern in finding alternatives to holistic accounts of mental content. Fodor's philosophical essays develop an informational view of semantics that offers the possibility of atomism about meaning; his psychological essays present a modular view of cognitive architecture that offers the possibility of atomism about perception. These ideas, he points out, are joined in epistemology in way that the books last essay begins to explore. Taken together, the essays represent Fodor's lively attempt to knock the underpinnings from the currently popular relativism to show that the arguments for semantic and psychological holism are insubstantial and that important alternatives exist to be explored. Jerry A. Fodor is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and at the City University of New York Graduate Center. A Bradford Book

Epistemology versus Ontology

Author : P. Dybjer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401782388
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Epistemology versus Ontology written by P. Dybjer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together philosophers, mathematicians and logicians to penetrate important problems in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics. In philosophy, one has been concerned with the opposition between constructivism and classical mathematics and the different ontological and epistemological views that are reflected in this opposition. The dominant foundational framework for current mathematics is classical logic and set theory with the axiom of choice (ZFC). This framework is, however, laden with philosophical difficulties. One important alternative foundational programme that is actively pursued today is predicativistic constructivism based on Martin-Löf type theory. Associated philosophical foundations are meaning theories in the tradition of Wittgenstein, Dummett, Prawitz and Martin-Löf. What is the relation between proof-theoretical semantics in the tradition of Gentzen, Prawitz, and Martin-Löf and Wittgensteinian or other accounts of meaning-as-use? What can proof-theoretical analyses tell us about the scope and limits of constructive and predicative mathematics?

Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism

Author : Sanford C. Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316395383
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism written by Sanford C. Goldberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of leading scholars, this collection of thirteen new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism, bringing recent developments in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and epistemology to bear on the issue. Structured in three parts, the collection looks at self-knowledge, content transparency, and then meta-semantics and the nature of mental content. The chapters examine a wide range of topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, including 2D semantics, transparency views of self-knowledge, and theories of linguistic understanding, as well as epistemological debates on contextualism, contrastivism, pragmatic encroachment, anti-luminosity arguments and testimony. The scope of the volume will appeal to graduate students and researchers in epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, cognitive science, psychology and linguistics.

Knowing Art

Author : Matthew Kieran
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402052650
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Art written by Matthew Kieran and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artworks potentially convey two kinds of knowledge: knowledge of art itself as well as general empirical knowledge, especially knowledge of human psychology. This book collects ten essays written by leading philosophers who distill and build upon recent work at the intersection of aesthetics and epistemology. The volume also explores the challenges that art poses for theories of knowledge as well as the challenges that artistic knowledge poses to traditional views about art.

The Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence

Author : Berit Brogaard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638590
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence written by Berit Brogaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects original essays by top scholars that address questions about the nature, origins, and effects of ambivalence. While the nature of agency has received an enormous amount of attention, relatively little has been written about ambivalence or how it relates to topics such as agency, rationality, justification, knowledge, autonomy, self-governance, well-being, social cognition, and various other topics. Ambivalence presents unique questions related to many major philosophical debates. For example, it relates to debates about virtues, rationality, and decision-making, agency or authenticity, emotions, and social or political metacognition. It is also relevant to a variety of larger debates in philosophy and psychology, including nature vs. nature, objectivity vs. subjectivity, or nomothetic vs. idiographic. The essays in this book offer novel and wide-ranging perspectives on this emerging philosophical topic. They will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and social cognition.