Structure and Thought: Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition - Couverture souple

Sacilotto, Daniel

 
9780810146631: Structure and Thought: Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition
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ISBN 10 : 0810146630 ISBN 13 : 9780810146631
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Offers a new understanding of representational cognition that synthesizes postwar philosophical approaches to the question of objective knowledge

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.

Structure and Thought: Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

DANIEL SACILOTTO is a professor of critical studies at the California Institute of the Arts.

RAY BRASSIER is a professor of philosophy at the American University of Beirut.

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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810146630
ISBN 13 
9780810146631
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Nombre de pages
304
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ISBN 10 :  0810146614 ISBN 13 :  9780810146617
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2024
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