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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785973103321

Autore

Janack Marianne

Titolo

What we mean by experience [[electronic resource] /] / Marianne Janack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8430-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

128.4

128/.4

Soggetti

Experience

Knowledge, Theory of

Psychology and philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Linguistic Turn and the Ascendancy of Anti-foundationalism; 2. Cognitive Sciences of Experience; 3. Children and Other Living Computers; 4. Feminist Discussions of Experience; 5. Naturalism and Agency; 6. Experience Recaptured; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this problem was compounded as the concept of experience itself came under scrutiny. First hailed as a wellspring of knowledge and the weapon that would vanquish metaphysics and Cartesianism by pragmatists like Dewey and James, by the century's end experience had become a mere vestige of both, a holdov