Structure and Thought : Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition Paperback / softback
by Daniel Sacilotto
Part of the Diaeresis series
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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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- Pages:304 pages, 29 b&w figures
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2024
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- ISBN:9780810146631
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, 29 b&w figures
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780810146631