The Biological and Social Dimensions of Human Knowledge / / Jan Faye |
Autore | Faye Jan |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
Disciplina | 016.34951249 |
Soggetto topico |
Knowledge, Theory of
Social epistemology |
ISBN | 3-031-39137-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
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Experience and Beyond : The Outline of A Darwinian Metaphysics / / by Jan Faye |
Autore | Faye Jan |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 350 p.) |
Disciplina | 120 |
Soggetto topico |
Epistemology
Philosophy of nature Biology—Philosophy Philosophy of Nature Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 3-319-31077-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface and Introduction -- 1 Evolutionary Naturalism -- The manifest image -- The scientific image -- Kant’s metaphysical dualism -- Evolutionary epistemology -- 2 Evolution and Human Cognition -- The Darwinian legacy. Setting the legacy straight -- A fallacy of naturalization -- Intention and innate dispositions -- 3 Sensation, Perception, and Observation -- Perception as belief acquisition -- From perception to observation -- Theory-ladenness -- Instrumental observation -- Observability -- 4 Theory and Reality -- Forms of realism -- Conceptual frameworks and external commitments -- Theory realism -- The success argument -- Constructive empiricism -- Structural realism -- The failure of representationalism -- 5 Truth, Language, and Objectivity -- What is truth? -- Truth and meaning -- Non-realism concerning Truth -- A naturalized notion of truth -- Semantics and ontology -- 6 Abstraction and Reification -- Common sense and externality -- What makes an entity abstract? -- Abstract objects versus abstracted concepts -- Why did abstracted concepts evolve? -- 7 In Defence of Nominalism -- Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars -- Particulars and universals -- Conceptualism -- 8 Space, Time, and Space-time -- The existence of Space -- The existence of Time -- Space-time substantivalism -- Space-time relationism -- Space-time as an abstracted concept -- Are space and time invented or discovered? -- 9 Causality and Counterfactuality -- The concept -- Regularity -- Modality -- 10 Human Evolution and Mathematical Physics -- Mathematics and representational knowledge -- Mathematics – the language of quantities -- Possible worlds, many worlds and multiverses -- The Copenhagen interpretation: a non-representational view -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography. |
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How Matter Becomes Conscious : A Naturalistic Theory of the Mind / / by Jan Faye |
Autore | Faye Jan |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
Disciplina |
501
128.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and science
Philosophy of mind Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Mind |
ISBN | 3-030-16138-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Flipping the Debate -- Chapter 2: Our Animal Mind -- Chapter 3: Subjectivity in a Biological Perspective -- Chapter 4: A Difference That Is No Difference -- Chapter 5: Why Identity Is Not Enough -- Chapter 6: Functionalism, Mechanisms, and Levels of Reality -- Chapter 7: The Environment Is What Matters -- Chapter 8: Understanding Consciousness -- Chapter 9: Conclusion. |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 | ||
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