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Author(s): Steven Horst
ISBN(s): 9780262034234, 0262034239
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 9.52 MB
Year: 2016
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0262034239

ISBN 13: 9780262034234 

Author: Steven Horst 

An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications.

Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the basic units of knowledge and understanding are concepts, beliefs, and argumentative inferences. In Cognitive Pluralism, Steven Horst proposes that another sort of unit—a mental model of a content domain—is the fundamental unit of understanding. He argues that understanding comes not in word-sized concepts, sentence-sized beliefs, or argument-sized reasoning but in the form of idealized models and in domain-sized chunks. He argues further that this idea of “cognitive pluralism”—the claim that we understand the world through many such models of a variety of content domains—sheds light on a number of problems in philosophy.

Horst first presents the “standard view” of cognitive architecture assumed in mainstream epistemology, semantics, truth theory, and theory of reasoning. He then explains the notion of a mental model as an internal surrogate that mirrors features of its target domain, and puts it in the context of ideas in psychology, philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and theoretical cognitive science. Finally, he argues that the cognitive pluralist view not only helps to explain puzzling disunities of knowledge but also raises doubts about the feasibility of attempts to “unify” the sciences; presents a model-based account of intuitive judgments; and contends that cognitive pluralism favors a reliabilist epistemology and a “molecularist” semantics. Horst suggests that cognitive pluralism allows us to view rival epistemological and semantic theories not as direct competitors but as complementary accounts, each an idealized model of different dimensions of evaluation.

Table of contents:

  1. Preface

  2. From the Standard View to Cognitive Pluralism

  3. Introduction: Beliefs, Concepts, and Mental Models

  4. A Standard Philosophical View of Cognitive Architecture

  5. Central and Modular Cognition

  6. Beyond Modularity and Central Cognition

  7. Cognitive Pluralism

  8. Models and Understanding

  9. Models

  10. Mental Models

  11. Relations between Models

  12. Other Model-Based Approaches

  13. The Plausibility of Cognitive Pluralism

  14. The Complementarity of Models and Language

  15. Epistemology, Semantics, Disunity

  16. Disunities of Knowledge, Science, and Understanding

  17. Models and Intuition

  18. Cognitive Illusion

  19. Cognitive Pluralism and Epistemology

  20. Cognitive Pluralism and Semantics

  21. Notes

  22. References

  23. Index

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