On Certainty And Other Philosophical Essays On Cognition

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On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110319772
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Certainty continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding. And pragmatism forms a subtextual Leitmotiv of these essays, seeing that the linking idea at work throughout is that knowledge is a tool for the management of our theoretical and practical affairs, and that what we ask of it is serviceability for the uses we have in view.

Representations

Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262560275
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Representations written by Jerry A. Fodor and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays will shape discussion in the philosophy of psychology for years to come. A collection of eleven essays dealing with methodological and empirical issues in cognitive science and in the philosophy of mind, Representations convincingly connects philosophical speculation to concrete empirical research.One of the outstanding methodological issues dealt with is the status of functionalism considered as an alternative to behavioristic and physicalistic accounts. of mental states and properties. The other issue is the status of reductionism considered as an account of the relation between the psychological and physical sciences. The first chapters present the main lines of argument which have made functionalism the currently favored philosophical approach to ontology of the mental.The outlines of a psychology of propositional attitudes which emerges from consideration of current developments in cognitive science are contained in the remaining essays.Not all of these essays are re-presentations. The new introductory essay seeks to present an overview and gives some detailed proposals about the contribution that functionalism makes to the solutions of problems about intentionality. The concluding essay, also not previously published, is a sustained examination of the relation between theories about the structure of concepts and theories about how they are learned. Finally, the essay "Three cheers for propositional attitudes", a critical examination of some of D. C. Dennett's ideas, has been completely rewritten for this volume. A Bradford Book.

Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion

Author : John Turri
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783741864
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion written by John Turri and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each other that many things are true—that is, we routinely make assertions. Information shared this way plays a critical role in the decisions and plans we make. In Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion, a distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist investigates the rules or norms that structure our social practice of assertion. Combining evidence from philosophy, psychology, and biology, John Turri shows that knowledge is the central norm of assertion and explains why knowledge plays this role. Concise, comprehensive, non-technical, and thoroughly accessible, this volume quickly brings readers to the cutting edge of a major research program at the intersection of philosophy and science. It presupposes no philosophical or scientific training. It will be of interest to philosophers and scientists, is suitable for use in graduate and undergraduate courses, and will appeal to general readers interested in human nature, social cognition, and communication.

Cognition Through Understanding

Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199672024
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Cognition Through Understanding written by Tyler Burge and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge's essays on cognition, thought, and language. The essays collected here use epistemology as a way of interpreting underlying powers of mind, and focus on four types of cognition that are warranted through understanding: self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection.

Epistemic Principles

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 143313733X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Principles written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemic Principles: A Primer of the Theory of Knowledge presents a compact account of the basic principles of the theory of knowledge. In doing this, Nicholas Rescher aims to fill the current gap in contemporary philosophical theory of knowledge with a comprehensive analysis of epistemological fundamentals. The book is not a mere inventory of such rules and principles, but rather interweaves them into a continuous exposition of basic issues. Written at a user-friendly and accessible level, Epistemic Principles is an essential addition for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in epistemology.

Exploring Certainty

Author : Robert Greenleaf Brice
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073917567X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Certainty written by Robert Greenleaf Brice and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty explores a myriad of new and important ideas regarding our notions of belief, knowledge, skepticism, and certainty. During the course of his exploration, Wittgenstein makes a fascinating new discovery about certitude, namely, that it is categorically distinct from knowledge. As his investigation advances, he recognizes that certainty must be non-propositional and non-ratiocinated; borne out not in the things we say, but in our actions, our deeds. Many philosophers working outside of epistemology recognized Wittgenstein's insights and determined that his work's abrupt end might serve as an excellent launching point for still further philosophical expeditions. In Exploring Certainty: Wittgenstein and Wide Fields of Thought, Robert Greenleaf Bricesurveys some of this rich topography. Wittgenstein's writings serve as a point of departure for Brice's own ideas about certainty. He shows how Wittgenstein's rough and unpolished notion of certitude might be smoothed out and refined in a way to benefit studies of morality, aesthetics, cognitive science, philosophy of mathematics. Brice's work opens new avenues of thought for scholars and students of the Wittgensteinian tradition, while introducing original philosophies concerning issues central to human knowledge and cognition.

The Matter of the Mind

Author : Maurice Schouten
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444350862
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Matter of the Mind written by Maurice Schouten and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the topic of reduction. Written by leading philosophers in the field Discusses recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences and reviews and weighs the evidence in favour of reductionism against the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the neurosciences Collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as adaptive behaviour, reward systems, consciousness, and social cognition.

Indefinability

Author : Zhozefina Leonidovna Pasternak
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788772895314
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Indefinability written by Zhozefina Leonidovna Pasternak and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pasternak (1900-94), sister to the famous Russian writer Boris, discusses various issues within philosophy that are not usually tackled by professional philosophers. They include categories, the wavicle, a seemingly absurd though perhaps really well-founded statement, and neuro-psychological considerations. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110321343
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphilosophy. In the way in which they shed new light on significant philosophical issues, these deliberations are emblematic of Rescher’s characteristic way of illuminating timeless issues and historical perspectives in a reciprocal interrelationship. The chapter of the book are as follows: Being and Value: On the Prospect of Optimalism; On Evolution and Intelligent Design; Mind and Matter; Fallacies Regarding Free Will; Sophisticating Naïve Realism; Taxonomic Complexity and the Laws of Nature; Practical Vs. Theoretical Reason; Pragmatism as a Growth Industry; Cost Benefit Epistemology; Quantifying Quality; Explanatory Surdity; Can Philosophy be Objective?; On Ontology in Cognitive Perspective; Plenum Theory [Essay Written Jointly with Patrick Grim]; and Onometrics (On Referential Analysis in Philosophy)

Certainty

Author : Jonathan Westphal
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872203181
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Certainty written by Jonathan Westphal and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents - Plato, Knowledge and Opinion, from 'Republic'; - Augustine, Three Things True and Certain, from 'City of God'; - Aquinas, Whether Faith is More Certain than Science . . . ? from 'Summa Theologica'; - Descartes, Meditations I, II, VI, from 'Meditations'; - Leibniz, On the Method of Distinguishing Real from 'Imaginary Phenomena'; - Hume, Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy, from 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'; - Reid, Reflections on the Common Theory of Ideas, from 'Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man'; - Husserl, First Meditation; the Way to the Transcendental Ego, from 'Cartesian Meditations'; - Moore, Certainty, from 'Philosophical Papers'; - Wittgenstein, On Certainty, from 'On Certainty'; - Reichenbach, The Search for Certainty and the Rationalistic Conception of Knowledge, from 'The Rise of Scientific Philosophy'; - Malcolm, Do I Know I Am Awake? from 'Dreaming'; - Bouwsma, Descartes Evil Genius, from 'Philosophical Essays'; - Smullyan, Dream or Reality, from 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies; - Octavio Paz, Certainty, a poem from 'Configurations'.

Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects in Managerial Language Games

Author : Dragan Djurić
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658096659
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects in Managerial Language Games written by Dragan Djurić and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragan Djurić looks at strategy tools from a process-ontological worldview as proposed by the Process Organization Studies discourse. Building on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy he understands science and management as language games thereby developing a view of strategy tools as objects with both an ontological and a symbolic function. This perspective is contrasted with the traditional understanding of strategy tools as ‘technologies of rationality’ as well as with the practice-based view of strategy tools as ‘boundary objects’.

On the Nature of Philosophy and Other Philosophical Essays

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110320207
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book On the Nature of Philosophy and Other Philosophical Essays written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays. Notwithstanding their thematic diversity, these discussions exhibit a uniformity of method in addressing philosophical issues via a mixture of historical contextualization, analytical scrutiny, and common-sensical concern. Their interest, such as it is, lies not just in what they do but in how they do it.

Foundations of Mind

Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019921624X
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Mind written by Tyler Burge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Foundations of Mind' brings together a set of essays which established Tyler Burge as one of the foremost contributors to philosophical research on mind and knowledge. The volume presents 19 essays published between 1975 and 2003, including his highly influential series on individualism.

Quality and Content

Author : Joseph Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192520466
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Quality and Content written by Joseph Levine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Levine draws together a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive approach to philosophy of mind. He explores such topics as the "phenomenal concept strategy" to defend materialism from anti-materialist intuitions, the doctrine of representationalism about phenomenal character, the modal argument against materialism, the nature of demonstrative thought, and cognitive phenomenology. Levine argues that the phenomenal concept strategy cannot work and that representationalism has certain fatal flaws, at least if it is to be joined to a materialist metaphysics. On the other hand, he defends materialism from the modal argument, contending that it relies on a questionable conflation of semantic and metaphysical issues. Levine also provides a naturalistic theory of demonstrative thought, criticizing certain philosophical arguments involving that notion in the process. All of the essays in some way respond to various materialist attempts to close the "explanatory gap" as well as outline a different conception of conscious experience that would accommodate the gap. Levine connects his work with related themes in contemporary psychology and with such hot philosophical topics as cognitive phenomenology.

A Theory of Content and Other Essays

Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262560690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Content and Other Essays written by Jerry A. Fodor and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1992-10-08 with total page 0 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. 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.

Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind

Author : Shira Elqayam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351620428
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind written by Shira Elqayam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David E. Over is a leading cognitive scientist and, with his firm grounding in philosophical logic, he also exerts a powerful influence on the psychology of reasoning. He is responsible for not only a large body of empirical work and accompanying theory, but for advancing a major shift in thinking about reasoning, commonly known as the ‘new paradigm’ in the psychology of human reasoning. Over’s signature mix of philosophical logic and experimental psychology has inspired generations of researchers, psychologists, and philosophers alike over more than a quarter of a century. The chapters in this volume, written by a leading group of contributors including a number who helped shape the psychology of reasoning as we know it today, each take their starting point from the key themes of Over’s ground-breaking work. The essays in this collection explore a wide range of central topics—such as rationality, bias, dual processes, and dual systems—as well as contemporary psychological and philosophical theories of conditionals. It concludes with an engaging new chapter, authored by David E. Over himself, which details and analyses the new paradigm psychology of reasoning. This book is therefore important reading for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in psychology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences, including those who are not familiar with Over’s thought already.

Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Author : Alvin I. Goldman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262571005
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science written by Alvin I. Goldman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of readings shows how cognitive science can influence most of the primary branches of philosophy, as well as how philosophy critically examines the foundations of cognitive science. Its broad coverage extends beyond current texts that focus mainly on the impact of cognitive science on philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, to include materials that are relevant to five other branches of philosophy: epistemology, philosophy of science (and mathematics), metaphysics, language, and ethics. The readings are organized by philosophical fields, with selections evenly divided between philosophers and cognitive scientists. They draw on research in numerous areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, psychology of reasoning and judgment, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and neuropsychology. There are timely treatments of current topics and debates such as the innate understanding of number, children's theory of mind, self-knowledge, consciousness, connectionism, and ethics and cognitive science.