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Faye Jan |
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The Biological and Social Dimensions of Human Knowledge / / Jan Faye |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
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©2023 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Knowledge, Theory of |
Social epistemology |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1: Naturalistic Epistemology -- Naturalism and Its Adversaries -- Externalist Theories of Knowledge -- Knowledge as a Disposition for Acting and Thinking -- Cognition, Knowledge, and Understanding -- 2: Knowledge as a Natural Phenomenon -- Knowledge in Non-human Animals -- Cognitive Schemas and Animal Knowledge -- Beliefs, Desires, and Recognition -- Acquaintance as Image-based Knowledge -- The Evolution of the Mind -- Doxastic Knowledge as Concept-based Knowledge -- 3: Experiential Knowledge Without Beliefs -- Ideas, Beliefs, and Thoughts -- Experiential Knowledge as Behavioral or Actional Knowledge -- Why Instincts Are Not Knowledge -- Embodied Cognition and the Extended Mind -- Blending of Knowing-how and Knowing-that -- 4: Human Sensory Knowledge -- Knowledge as Justified True Beliefs -- Sensory Knowledge and Belief-acquisition -- The Logical Space of Reason -- Knowledge Before Language -- Empirical Evidence in Support -- The Sensorimotor Space -- 5: Linking Experiences to the Social World -- The Evolution of Language -- Becoming Sapiens -- Ostension, Induction, and Correlations -- Narrow Content and Broad Content -- Shared Intentions -- 6: Self-awareness, Language, and Empirical Knowledge -- Speaking as Embodied Knowledge -- Speaker Meaning Determines Word Meaning -- The Rise of Linguistic Conventions -- Empirical Knowledge and the Evolution of Language -- From Concrete |
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to Abstract Thinking -- 7: Social Knowledge, Agreements, and Testimonies -- From Language to Social Epistemology -- Perlocutionary Effects and Social Knowledge -- Objection: Agreement is Not the Same as Truth -- Nothing But the Truth -- Social Knowledge and Testimony -- Knowledge Beyond Empirical Beliefs -- 8: Science and its Epistemic Limits -- What Are We Adapted to Know, and What Are We Adapted to Understand?. |
The Introduction of Invisible But Observable Objects -- Why Scientific Theories Do Not Express de re Knowledge -- Mathematics and Empirical Knowledge -- 9: Epistemic Values from a Naturalistic Perspective -- The Evolution of Understanding -- A Naturalist Approach -- The Cognitive Standards -- Reflection-based Understanding -- Epistemic Values and the Naturalist Stance -- Literature -- Index. |
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