The Biological and Social Dimensions of Human Knowledge / / Jan Faye

• Autore: Faye Jan
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Disciplina: 016.34951249
• Soggetto topico: Knowledge, Theory of; Social epistemology
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Biological and Social Dimensions of Human Knowledge
• ISBN: 3-031-39137-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910746966303321
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