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Phenomenology of human understanding /
The problem of human knowing has been foundational for the enterprise of philosophy since the time of Descartes. The great philosophers have offered different accounts of the power and limits of human knowing, but no generally acceptable system has emerged. Contemporary writers have almost given up...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Lutterworth Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Turn to the Subject; Completing the Turn to the Subject; Advantages and Contributions of this Approach; Sources; What Kind of a Book Is This?; Book Summary; 1 From Introspection to Self-Appropriation; The Need for a Method; Difficulties in Studying Human Understanding; Introspection: Uses and Abuses; From Introspection to Self-Appropriation; Self-Appropriation that is Communal and Verifiable; Conclusion: an Empirical Method for Philosophy; 2 Consciousness as an Experience; What is Consciousness?; Analysis and Definition
- Clarification by Contrast; Defining Basic Terms; Understanding as an Activity; Conclusion; 3 The Basic Act of Understanding (Part 1); Introduction; Where to Look; Questioning: The Desire to Know; Active Element: Strategies for Thinking; Passive Element: It Comes Suddenly and Unexpectedly; Conclusion; 4 The Basic Act of Understanding (Part 2); Ideas Emerge from Images; Contrasting Images and Ideas; Relating Images and Ideas; Conception and Perception; The Notion of Emergence; Ideas Become Habitual; Conclusion; 5 Developing Understanding; Introduction; Generalizing; Description to Explanation
- Higher Viewpoints; Probabilities and Chance; Conclusion; 6 How Understanding Becomes Knowledge; From Thinking to Knowing; The Critical Question Arises; Reflective Insight into Truth; Characteristics of a Judgment of Truth; The Criterion of Truth; 7 Understanding and Knowing Values; Judging Moral Values; The Question of Value Arises; Scale of Values; Structure of Deliberative Insight; Deliberative Insights into Moral Values; The Affective Component of the Judgment of Value; Judgments of Value; Conscience as Criterion; Conclusion and Summary; 8 Cognitional Structure
- A Synthesis and Summary Thus Far; The Sequence of Activities that Constitutes One Knowing; Cognitional Structure-Explaining the Table; Immanent and Operative Norms; A Verifiable Cognitional Theory; Performance and Content; 9 Understanding Misunderstanding; Conflict and Disagreement; Minor Sources of Misunderstanding; Dialectic at the Heart of Human Knowing; Imagination and Intelligence; Naïve Realism or Critical Realism; Intuition: From "Looking" to Knowing; Startling Strangeness; 10 Establishing Critical Realism; Psychology of Knowledge; Transitioning to Philosophy
- First Strategic Judgment: Self-Affirmation; Contrast with Descartes; Second Strategic Judgment: the Notion of Being; Third Strategic Judgment: Subjectivity and Objectivity; Conclusion; 11 From Subjectivity to Objectivity; Subjectivity and Objectivity as Commonly Conceived; The Principal Notion of Objectivity; Immanence and Transcendence; Absolute Objectivity; Normative Objectivity; Experiential Objectivity; Conclusion; 12 Mind Recovered; Being at Home in a Philosophy of Interiority; Method and Methods; Dialectic Remains to be Overcome; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover