Knowledge And Mind

Author : Andrew Brook,Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262261642

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Knowledge and Mind by Andrew Brook,Robert J. Stainton Pdf

This is the only contemporary text to cover both epistemology and philosophy of mind at an introductory level. It also serves as a general introduction to philosophy: it discusses the nature and methods of philosophy as well as basic logical tools of the trade. The book is divided into three parts. The first focuses on knowledge, in particular, skepticism and knowledge of the external world, and knowledge of language. The second focuses on mind, including the metaphysics of mind and freedom of will. The third brings together knowledge and mind, discussing knowledge of mind (other minds and our own) and naturalism and how epistemology and philosophy of mind come together in contemporary cognitive science. Throughout, the authors take into account the needs of the beginning philosophy student. They have made very effort to ensure accessibility while preserving accuracy.

Author : Carl Bereiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135644796

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Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age by Carl Bereiter Pdf

In this book, Carl Bereiter--a distinguished and well-known cognitive, educational psychologist--presents what he calls "a new way of thinking about knowledge and the mind." He argues that in today's Knowledge Age, education's conceptual tools are inadequate to address the pressing educational challenges and opportunities of the times. Two things are required: first, to replace the mind-as-container metaphor with one that envisions a mind capable of sustaining knowledgeable, intelligent behavior without actually containing stored beliefs; second, to recognize a fundamental difference between knowledge building and learning--both of which are essential parts of education for the knowledge age. Connectionism in cognitive science addresses the first need; certain developments in post-positivist epistemology address the second. The author explores both the theoretical bases and the practical educational implications of this radical change in viewpoint. The book draws on current new ways of thinking about knowledge and mind, including information processing, cognitive psychology, situated cognition, constructivism, social constructivism, and connectionism, but does not adhere strictly to any "camp." Above all, the author is concerned with developing a way of thinking about the mind that can usher education into the knowledge age. This book is intended as a starting point.

Author : John Bengson,Marc A. Moffett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190452834

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Knowing How by John Bengson,Marc A. Moffett Pdf

Knowledge how to do things is a pervasive and central element of everyday life. Yet it raises many difficult questions that must be answered by philosophers and cognitive scientists aspiring to understand human cognition and agency. What is the connection between knowing how and knowing that? Is knowledge how simply a type of ability or disposition to act? Is there an irreducibly practical form of knowledge? What is the role of the intellect in intelligent action? This volume contains fifteen state of the art essays by leading figures in philosophy and linguistics that amplify and sharpen the debate between "intellectualists" and "anti-intellectualists" about mind and action, highlighting the conceptual, empirical, and linguistic issues that motivate and sustain the conflict. The essays also explore various ways in which this debate informs central areas of ethics, philosophy of action, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Knowing How covers a broad range of topics dealing with tacit and procedural knowledge, the psychology of skill, expertise, intelligence and intelligent action, the nature of ability, the syntax and semantics of embedded questions, the mind-body problem, phenomenal character, epistemic injustice, moral knowledge, the epistemology of logic, linguistic competence, the connection between knowledge and understanding, and the relation between theory and practice. This is the book on knowing how--an invaluable resource for philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and others concerned with knowledge, mind, and action.

Author : Clarence Irving Lewis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1956-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0486265641

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Mind and the World-order by Clarence Irving Lewis Pdf

Theory of "conceptual pragmatism" takes into account both modern philosophical thought and modern mathematics. Stimulating discussions of metaphysics, a priori, philosophic method, much more.

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135975364

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Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem by Karl Popper Pdf

Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions. These are what Popper calls big issues - too big for easy answers, but too important to be ignored. In these lectures, and in the discussions that follow them, Sir Karl develops a theory of body-mind interaction. This theory involves evolutionary emergence, human language, and that realm of autonomous products of the human mind which Popper calls World 3. According to Popper, consciousness emerged in the course of evolution as a kind of control system for the body, like a driver is a control system for a car. Objective knowledge - the kind of knowledge that is found in books and libraries - then emerged in the course of evolution as a higher level control system for the mind. Simply put, objective knowledge is the mind's control system for critical problem solving. In this way, full consciousness - the kind of consciousness that humans can have - is anchored in World 3 and is closely linked to human language, problems, theories, and criticism. And it is mainly through this use of objective knowledge as a control system for critical problem solving that we are able to exercise our freedom, creativity, and rationality - first by making contributions, like science books and works of art, to World 3; and then by using these contributions to bring about changes in Worlds 1 and 2. The Kenan Lectures were well-attended and provoked lively discussions. This book is published in the same informal language in which they were originally delivered and so can be easily understood by a general audience.

Author : Robert Marrone
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990-08-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0791403882

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Body of Knowledge by Robert Marrone Pdf

This book introduces readers to the many facets of body/mind psychology such as its history and its basis in physiological processes; the framework of its theories and models; its clinical application in counseling, psychotherapy, and the treatment of psychosomatic disorders; and its growing impact on our understanding of healing, communication, and conscious living. From Freud, Reich, and Lowen to holography and Tibetan Buddhist theories of madness; from Perls, Laslow, and self-actualization to acupressure, Rolfing, and insight medication; Marrone provides a challenging and sophisticated synthesis of highly diverse and powerful ideas in an exciting and readable style.

Author : Dorit Bar-On
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191532429

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Speaking My Mind by Dorit Bar-On Pdf

Dorit Bar-On develops and defends a novel view of avowals and self-knowledge. Drawing on resources from the philosophy of language, the theory of action, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, she offers original and systematic answers to many long-standing questions concerning our ability to know our own minds. We are all very good at telling what states of mind we are in at a given moment. When it comes to our own present states of mind, what we say goes; an avowal such as "I'm feeling so anxious" or "I'm thinking about my next trip to Paris," it is typically supposed, tells it like it is. But why is that? Why should what I say about my present mental states carry so much more weight than what others say about them? Why should avowals be more immune to criticism and correction than other claims we make? And if avowals are not based on any evidence or observation, how could they possibly express our knowledge of our own present mental states? Bar-On proposes a Neo-Expressivist view according to which an avowal is an act through which a person directly expresses, rather than merely reports, the very mental condition that the avowal ascribes. She argues that this expressivist idea, coupled with an adequate characterization of expression and a proper separation of the semantics of avowals from their pragmatics and epistemology, explains the special status we assign to avowals. As against many expressivists and their critics, she maintains that such an expressivist explanation is consistent with a non-deflationary view of self-knowledge and a robust realism about mental states. The view that emerges preserves many insights of the most prominent contributors to the subject, while offering a new perspective on our special relationship to our own minds.

Author : Keith Gunderson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816657797

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Language, Mind, and Knowledge by Keith Gunderson Pdf

Language, Mind, and Knowledge was first published in 1975. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is Volume VII of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, a series published in cooperation with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota and edited by Herbert Feigl and Grover Maxwell. Professor Maxwell is the present director of the Center. Some of the papers in this volume were presented at or grew out of a conference on the philosophy of language which was held at the Center under the direction of Professor Gunderson. Others were written independently. The aim of the book, like that of the conference, is to assemble a wide variety of approaches to issues in the philosophy of language with emphasis on the ways in which the issues involved have bearing on other matters such as linguistic theory, cognitive psychology, the philosophy of mind, and epistemology. There are twelve papers by eleven contributors: "Languages and Language" by David Lewis; "Logic and Language: An Examination of Recent Criticisms of Internationalism" by Jerrold J. Katz; "The Meaning of 'Meaning'" by Hilary Putnam; "Reference and Context" by Charles Chastain; "Language, Thought, and Communication" by Gilbert Harman; "Knowledge of Language" by Noam Chomsky; "Language, Rules, and Complex Behavior" by Michael D. Root; "A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts" by John R. Searle; "On What We Know" by Zeno Vendler; "Vendler on Knowledge and Belief" by Bruce Aune; "Reply to Professor Aune" by Zeno Vendler; "Brain Writing and Mind Reading" by D.C. Dennett.

Author : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521578264

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Virtues of the Mind by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Pdf

This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics.

Author : Peter Carruthers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199685141

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The Opacity of Mind by Peter Carruthers Pdf

Do we have introspective access to our own thoughts? Peter Carruthers challenges the consensus that we do: he argues that access to our own thoughts is always interpretive, grounded in perceptual awareness and sensory imagery. He proposes a bold new theory of self-knowledge, with radical implications for understanding of consciousness and agency.

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241980873

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The Frontiers of Knowledge by A. C. Grayling Pdf

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker _________________________ In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the new neurosciences of mind and brain are just beginning. What do we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever. Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks to answer them in three crucial areas at the frontiers of knowledge: science, history and psychology. A remarkable history of science, life on earth, and the human mind itself, this is a compelling and fascinating tour de force, written with verve, clarity and remarkable breadth of knowledge. _________________________ 'Remarkable, readable and authoritative. How he has mastered so much, so thoroughly, is nothing short of amazing' Lawrence M. Krauss, author of A Universe from Nothing 'This book hums with the excitement of the great human project of discovery' Adam Zeman, author of Aphantasia

Author : Bruce Aune
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UOM:39076006008853

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Knowledge, Mind, and Nature by Bruce Aune Pdf

Author : Beth Luey
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1558498176

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Expanding the American Mind by Beth Luey Pdf

Compares fiction and non-fiction - their relative respectability in the eyes of reading experts and in the opinions of readers themselves. This title traces the roots of popularization from the Middle Ages onwards, examining changes in literacy, education, and university politics

Author : Clarence Irving Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : LCCN:58313364

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Mind and the World-order by Clarence Irving Lewis Pdf

Author : Sanford C. Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521169240

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Anti-Individualism by Sanford C. Goldberg Pdf

Sanford Goldberg argues that a proper account of the communication of knowledge through speech has anti-individualistic implications for both epistemology and the philosophy of mind and language. In Part 1 he offers a novel argument for anti-individualism about mind and language, the view that the contents of one's thoughts and the meanings of one's words depend for their individuation on one's social and natural environment. In Part 2 he discusses the epistemic dimension of knowledge communication, arguing that the epistemic characteristics of communication-based beliefs depend on features of the cognitive and linguistic acts of the subject's social peers. In acknowledging an ineliminable social dimension to mind, language, and the epistemic categories of knowledge, justification, and rationality, his book develops fundamental links between externalism in the philosophy of mind and language, on the one hand, and externalism is epistemology, on the other.