Inference and Consciousness

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-33734-0 (ISBN)

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This book brings together original essays that showcase how several current debates in epistemology, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of mind can benefit from more reflection on these and related questions about the significance of consciousness for inference.

Inference has long been a central concern in epistemology, as an essential means by which we extend our knowledge and test our beliefs. Inference is also a key notion in influential psychological accounts of mental capacities, ranging from problem-solving to perception. Consciousness, on the other hand, has arguably been the defining interest of philosophy of mind over recent decades. Comparatively little attention, however, has been devoted to the significance of consciousness for the proper understanding of the nature and role of inference. It is commonly suggested that inference may be either conscious or unconscious. Yet how unified are these various supposed instances of inference? Does either enjoy explanatory priority in relation to the other? In what way, or ways, can an inference be conscious, or fail to be conscious, and how does this matter? This book brings together original essays from established scholars and emerging theorists that showcase how several current debates in epistemology, philosophy of psychology and philosophy of mind can benefit from more reflections on these and related questions about the significance of consciousness for inference.

Anders Nes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has written on cognitive phenomenology, inference, and perception in various journals and edited collections. He has previously been a Researcher at the CSMN, University of Oslo, and a Career Development Fellow at Oxford University. Timothy Chan was Researcher at the CSMN, University of Oslo. He had been a lecturer at the University of East Anglia and taught at several other universities. He edited The Aim of Belief (2013) and published research articles in journals including Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.

Introduction: Inference and Consciousness

Anders Nes

Part I. Unconscious Inference in Cognitive Science and Psychiatry

Unconscious Inference Theories of Cognitive Achievement
Kirk Ludwig and Wade Munroe

A Realist Perspective on Bayesian Cognitive Science
Michael Rescorla

The Role of Unconscious Inference in Models of Delusion Formation
Federico Bongiorno and Lisa Bortolotti

Part II. Inference in Speech Comprehension

Seeing and hearing meanings - A Non-Inferential Approach to Speech Comprehension
Berit Brogaard

Metacognition and Inferential Accounts of Communication
Nicholas Allott

Part III. Inference, Structure, and Generality

Non-Inferential Transitions: Imagery and Association
Jake Quilty-Dunn and Eric Mandelbaum

Knowledge of Logical Generality and the Possibility of Deductive Reasoning
Corine Besson

Part IV. Conscious Non-Demonstrative Inference

Fore- and Background in Conscious Non-Demonstrative Inference
Anders Nes

Morphological Content and Chromatic Illumination in Belief-Fixation
David Henderson, Terry Horgan, and Matjaž Potrc¿

Part V. Inference and Perceptual and Introspective Knowledge

Experience and Epistemic Structure: Can Cognitive Penetration Result in Epistemic Downgrade?
Elijah Chudnoff

The Transparency of Inference

Ram Neta

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-032-33734-6 / 1032337346
ISBN-13	978-1-032-33734-0 / 9781032337340
Zustand	Neuware