Belief and Knowledge: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape - Couverture souple

Sayre, Kenneth M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0847684733 ISBN 13 : 9780847684731

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 1997

Synopsis

Contesting much contemporary epistemology and cognitive science, noted philosopher Kenneth M. Sayre argues that, while some cognitive attitudes such as believing take propositions as objects, there are many others (knowing, hoping, fearing, etc.) whose objects are instead states of affairs. Therefore, knowledge cannot be belief with other factors such as justification added, nor can hope and fear be relations a subject bears to neuronal brain states functioning as propositional representations. To support these claims Sayre undertakes a detailed exploration of belief and knowledge and traces the relations of cognitive attitudes to a network of related concepts like certainty, truth, representation, and intentionality. His findings not only challenge current orthodoxy but open new paths of research in epistemology and cognitive science.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kenneth M. Sayre is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and the author of fifteen previous books on subjects ranging from artificial intelligence to Platonic dialogues.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0847684733
• ISBN 13: 9780847684731
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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