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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miščević, Nenad
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.