Rationality and Cognition : Against Relativism-Pragmatism /
"In this book Nenad Miscevic defends naturalistic rationalism against recent relativist attacks. Miscevic begins with an excellent introduction to cognitive science and goes on to create a searching defence of human rationality and of a traditional role for truth in epistemology. He presents a...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Part One: The Cognitivist Challenge
- 1 Philosophy and Cognitive Science
- 2 Epistemology: The Classical Picture
- 3 Relativism-Pragmatism
- Part Two: Are Our Representations Truth-Tolerant?
- 4 The Idea of Truth-Intolerance
- 5 The Non-Sentential Media
- Part Three: Truth and Rationality
- 6 The Value of Truth
- 7 From Truth to Virtue
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX: THEORY AND OBSERVATION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Z.