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

• Autore: Janack Marianne
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 128.4; 128/.4
• Soggetto topico: Experience; Knowledge, Theory of; Psychology and philosophy
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: What we mean by experience
• ISBN: 0-8047-8430-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785973103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II