Structure and Thought
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4661-7 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Foreword, by Ray Brassier
Introduction – The Kantian Shadow
Part 1. Post-Critical Structuralist Materialisms and the Critique of Representation
Chapter I – The Heraclitean Empiricists: Experience Against the Concept
Chapter II – The Parmenidean Rationalists I: Formalization Against Experience
Chapter III - The Parmenidean Rationalists II: Puncturing the Circle of Correlation
Part 2. Structural Representational Realism
Chapter IV - The Return to the Abyss: A Promethean Kant
Chapter V – Thinking Between the Empirical and Transcendental: Function, Computation, and Information
Chapter VI - A Thought Disincarnate: A Pragmatic Cognitive Hierarchy of Representational Cognition
Chapter VII – On Natural Reason: The Dialectics of Revision and Integration
Works Cited
Endnotes
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Diaeresis |
| Zusatzinfo | 29 b&w figures |
| Verlagsort | Evanston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8101-4661-4 / 0810146614 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8101-4661-7 / 9780810146617 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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