Cognition, Content, and the A Priori
Cognition, Content, and the A Priori

Author: Robert Hanna

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 0191025593

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In Cognition, Content, and the A Priori, Robert Hanna works out a unified contemporary Kantian theory of rational human cognition and knowledge. Along the way, he provides accounts of (i) intentionality and its contents, including non-conceptual content and conceptual content, (ii) sense perception and perceptual knowledge, including perceptual self-knowledge, (iii) the analytic-synthetic distinction, (iv) the nature of logic, and (v) a priori truth and knowledge in mathematics, logic, and philosophy. This book is specifically intended to reach out to two very different audiences: contemporary analytic philosophers of mind and knowledge on the one hand, and contemporary Kantian philosophers or Kant-scholars on the other. At the same time, it is also riding the crest of a wave of exciting and even revolutionary emerging new trends and new work in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, with a special concentration on the philosophy of perception. What is revolutionary in this new wave are its strong emphases on action, on cognitive phenomenology, on disjunctivist direct realism, on embodiment, and on sense perception as a primitive and proto-rational capacity for cognizing the world. Cognition, Content, and the A Priori makes a fundamental contribution to this philosophical revolution by giving it a specifically contemporary Kantian twist, and by pushing these new lines of investigation radically further.

Content, Cognition, and Communication
Content, Cognition, and Communication

Author: Nathan Salmon

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2007-03-29

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0191536105

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Nathan Salmon presents a selection of his essays from the early 1980s to 2006, on a set of closely connected topics central to analytic philosophy. The book is divided into four thematic sections. The first contains six essays on the theme of direct reference, and associated issues regarding names and descriptions, demonstratives and reflexivity. The four essays in the second section, under the heading of apriority, concern particular consequences of Millianism with respect to the semantic-epistemological status of certain special kinds of sentences. The five essays in the third section develop Salmon's project of reconciling Millianism with a host of problems posed by locutions of propositional attitude, especially by attributions of belief. The volume concludes with four essays about the distinction between meaning and use, or more generally, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics.

Kant's Empirical Psychology
Kant's Empirical Psychology

Author: Patrick R. Frierson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1107032652

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This is the first English-language book to examine Kant's empirical psychology, applying it throughout Kant's philosophy and to contemporary philosophical issues.

In Defense of Intuitions
In Defense of Intuitions

Author: A. Chapman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-06

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 1137347953

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A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them.

Kant and the Subject of Critique
Kant and the Subject of Critique

Author: Avery Goldman

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 025300540X

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Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves. Kant may seem to begin his inquiries with an uncritical conception of cognitive limits, but in Kant and the Subject of Critique, Avery Goldman argues that, even for Kant, a reflective act must take place before any judgment occurs. Building on Kant's metaphysics, which uses the soul, the world, and God as regulative principles, Goldman demonstrates how Kant can open doors to reflection, analysis, language, sensibility, and understanding. By establishing a regulative self, Goldman offers a way to bring unity to the subject through Kant's seemingly circular reasoning, allowing for critique and, ultimately, knowledge.

Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics

Author: Marcus Willaschek

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 110847263X

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Detailed exploration of the Transcendental Dialectic, in which Kant uncovers the sources of metaphysics in human reason.

Kant and the Faculty of Feeling
Kant and the Faculty of Feeling

Author: Kelly Sorensen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1107178223

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First essay collection devoted to Kant's faculty of feeling, a concept relevant to issues in ethics, aesthetics, and the emotions.

Cognition Through Understanding
Cognition Through Understanding

Author: Tyler Burge

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 0199672024

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Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge's essays on cognition, thought, and language. The essays collected here use epistemology as a way of interpreting underlying powers of mind, and focus on four types of cognition that are warranted through understanding: self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection.

Kant’s Philosophy of Physical Science
Kant’s Philosophy of Physical Science

Author: Robert E. Butts

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 9400947305

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The papers in this volume are offered in celebration of the 200th anni versary of the pub 1 i cat i on of Inmanue 1 Kant's The MetaphysicaL Foundations of NatupaL Science. All of the es says (including the Introduction) save two were written espe ci ally for thi s volume. Gernot Bohme' s paper is an amended and enlarged version of one originally read in the series of lectures and colloquia in philosophy of science offered by Boston University. My own paper is a revised and enlarged version (with an appendix containing completely new material) of one read at the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Sci ence Association held in Chicago in 1984. Why is it important to devote this attention to Kant's last published work in the philosophy of physics? The excellent essays in the volume will answer the question. I will provide some schematic com ments designed to provide an image leading from the general question to its very specific answers. Kant is best known for hi s monumental Croitique of Pure Reason and for his writings in ethical theory. His "critical" philosophy requires an initial sharp division of knowledge into its theoretical and practical parts. Moral perfection of attempts to act out of duty is the aim of practical reason. The aim of theoretical reason is to know the truth about ma terial and spiritual nature.

Kant's Theory of Normativity
Kant's Theory of Normativity

Author: Konstantin Pollok

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-02

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107127807

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A milestone in Kant scholarship, this interpretation of his critical philosophy makes sense of his notorious 'synthetic judgments a priori'.