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On reflection [electronic resource] / Hilary Kornblith

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Kornblith, Hilary
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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1 online resource (x, 177 pages)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Knowledge -- 1.1.The infinite regress -- 1.2.Two kinds of knowledge? -- 1.3.Does reflective scrutiny improve our reliability? -- 1.4.Are there other benefits that reflection provides? -- 1.5.Reflection and the first-person point of view -- 1.6.Conclusion -- 2.Reasoning -- 2.1.The infinite regress -- 2.2.Shoemaker's higher-order requirement -- 2.3.Another route to a higher-order requirement -- 2.4.Is it possible to have first-order beliefs without also having higher-order beliefs? -- 2.5.Are philosophers and psychologists talking past one another? -- 2.6.Is there a social dimension to the propositional attitudes? -- 2.7.Conclusion -- 3.Freedom -- 3.1.The infinite regress -- 3.2.Higher-order states and alien desires -- 3.3.Epistemic agency -- 3.4.Mechanism and epistemic agency -- 3.5.Epistemic agency and the first-person perspective -- 3.6.Epistemic agency and deliberation -- 3.7.Epistemic agency and epistemic responsibility -- 3.8.Conclusion -- 4.Normativity -- 4.1.The infinite regress -- 4.2.The perfectibility of human reason -- 4.3.Normativity, prescriptivity, and the a priori -- 4.4.Normativity and self-conception -- 4.5.Conclusion -- 5.Reflection Demystified -- 5.1.System 1 and System 2 -- 5.2.System 2 and reflection -- 5.3.Interactions between System 1 and System 2 -- 5.4.Control and automaticity -- 5.5.Reflection without a free-floating agent -- 5.6.Conclusion.
Summary
An account of mental reflection and its importance for knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity. It argues that reflection cannot solve the philosophical problems it has been thought to, and offers a more realistic, demystified view of its nature which draws on dual process approaches to cognition.
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9780191745263 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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