Cognition Through Understanding: Self-Knowledge, Interlocution, Reasoning, Reflection: Philosophical Essays, Volume 3 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199672028)

Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge's essays that use epistemology to illumine powers of mind. The essays focus on epistemic warrants that differ from those warrants commonly discussed in epistemology--those for ordinary empirical beliefs and for logical and mathematical beliefs. The essays center on four types of cognition warranted through understanding--self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection. Burge argues that by reflecting on warrants for these types of cognition, one better understands cognitive powers that are distinctive of persons, and (on earth) of human beings. The collection presents three previously unpublished independent essays, in addition to substantial, retrospective commentary. The retrospective commentary invites the reader to make connections that were not fully in mind when the essays were written.

Author: Tyler Burge
ISBN-10: 0199672024
ISBN-13: 9780199672028
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2013
Pages: 648
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.60d