Cognition and Work: A Study Concerning the Value and Limits of the Pragmatic Motifs in the Cognition of the World

ISBN-13: 9780810142695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Max Scheler; Zachary Davis

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• Translator’s Introduction
• I. The Problem
• II. The Essence and Meaning of Knowledge and Cognition – The Kinds of Knowledge
• III. The Philosophical Pragmatism
• A. The Two Central Principles of Pragmatism – Historical Sources and Variations of the Pragmatic Movement
• B. The Errors of Pragmatism
• 1. The Falsification of the Idea of Knowledge
• 2. The Mistaken Ordering of the Reason-Consequence-Relationship of Knowledge and Action
• 3. The Misrecognition of the Difference between Essential Knowledge and Inductive Knowledge
• 4. The Mistaken Axioms of Pragmatic “Logic”
• C. The Partial Truth of Pragmatism: The Pragmatic Condition of the Formal-Mechanistic Theory of Nature -- Various Views regarding its Epistemic Value
• IV. The Pragmatic Method: The methodological-pragmatic standpoint and its meaning for the philosophical interpretation of the mechanistic view of nature. The kinds of knowledge concerning nature
• V. Concerning the Philosophy of Perception
• A. Perception and Sensation
• 1. Percpetual Content, Sensation, and the Trans-Conscious “Corporeal Images”
• 2. The Relation Between Sensation and Perception – the Drive-Motor Conditionality
• B. Perception and Fantasy
• VI. The Metaphysics of Perception and the Problem of Reality – The Work and the Cognition Possibility of Human Beings
• B Manuscripts
• Regarding “Cognition and Work”
• a) The “Spirit” of Pragmatism and the philosophical Concept of the Human Being