On Reflection

Zusatztext This book is concise, clearly written, and very well argued...It demonstrates how crucial the use of scientific research is and can be to Philosophy and thus shows philosophical naturalism at its best. Informationen zum Autor Hilary Kornblith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Inductive Inference and its Natural Ground (MIT, 1993) and Knowledge and its Place in Nature (Oxford, 2002). Klappentext Hilary Kornblith presents a new account of mental reflection! and its importance for knowledge! reasoning! freedom! and normativity. He argues that reflection cannot solve the philosophical problems it has traditionally been thought to! and offers a more realistic! demystified view of its nature which draws on dual process approaches to cognition. Zusammenfassung Hilary Kornblith presents a new account of mental reflection, and its importance for knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity. He argues that reflection cannot solve the philosophical problems it has traditionally been thought to, and offers a more realistic, demystified view of its nature which draws on dual process approaches to cognition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Knowledge 2: Reasoning 3: Freedom 4: Normativity 5: Reflection Demystified Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Hilary Kornblith, Hilary (University of Massachusetts Kornblith, Kornblith Hilary
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2014
• EAN: 9780198708681
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870868-1
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Ethics & moral philosophy, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge