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Structure and Thought: Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition

Structure and Thought: Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition

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Series: Diaeresis

Philosophy

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ISBN10: 0810146630
ISBN13: 9780810146631
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: Feb 15 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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