{"product_id":"structure-and-thought-daniel-sacilotto-9780810146617","title":"Structure and Thought: Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition","description":"\u003cb\u003eOffers a new understanding of representational cognition that synthesizes postwar philosophical approaches to the question of objective knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This study develops a novel account of representational cognition, explaining how cognitive systems progressively come to map the structure of their worlds. Daniel Sacilotto offers a constructive response to the critique of representation formulated throughout the post-Kantian philosophical tradition. Rather than a skepticism or idealism whereby thinking can grasp appearances but never the real, representation, Sacilotto shows, is a constitutive dimension of cognitive systems' creative capacity to know and intervene in the world of which they are part. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStructure and Thought: Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition\u003c\/i\u003e integrates various lines in contemporary philosophy, including those often seen as incommensurable or in irresolvable tension with one another. Sacilotto thus advances a productive synthesis of a materialist ambition to provide a creative and historical understanding of cognition with a structural realist account of representation. He shows how the different forms of sensory, discursive, and theoretical mediation that characterize human cognition are conducive to a realist epistemological framework that explains how the possibility of knowledge about a mind-independent reality is conceivable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Sacilotto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810146614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810146617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Daniel Sacilotto","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44756694499583,"sku":"9780810146617","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a66fb407-82c1-4f44-8651-4df3aafe1a53.jpg?v=1706593621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/structure-and-thought-daniel-sacilotto-9780810146617","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}