Inference and Consciousness

ISBN-13: 9781032337340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 300 str.

Timothy Chan; Anders Nes

Opis

This book brings together original essays that showcase how several current debates in epistemology, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of mind can benefit from more reflection on these and related questions about the significance of consciousness for inference.

Spis treści

Introduction: Inference and Consciousness

Anders Nes

Part I. Unconscious Inference in Cognitive Science and Psychiatry

1. Unconscious Inference Theories of Cognitive Achievement

Kirk Ludwig and Wade Munroe

2. A Realist Perspective on Bayesian Cognitive Science

Michael Rescorla

3. The Role of Unconscious Inference in Models of Delusion Formation

Federico Bongiorno and Lisa Bortolotti

Part II. Inference in Speech Comprehension

4. Seeing and hearing meanings - A Non-Inferential Approach to Speech Comprehension

Berit Brogaard

5. Metacognition and Inferential Accounts of Communication

Nicholas Allott

Part III. Inference, Structure, and Generality

6. Non-Inferential Transitions: Imagery and Association

Jake Quilty-Dunn and Eric Mandelbaum

7. Knowledge of Logical Generality and the Possibility of Deductive Reasoning

Corine Besson

Part IV. Conscious Non-Demonstrative Inference

8. Fore- and Background in Conscious Non-Demonstrative Inference

Anders Nes

9. Morphological Content and Chromatic Illumination in Belief-Fixation

David Henderson, Terry Horgan, and Matjaž Potrc¿

Part V. Inference and Perceptual and Introspective Knowledge

10. Experience and Epistemic Structure: Can Cognitive Penetration Result in Epistemic Downgrade?

Elijah Chudnoff

11. The Transparency of Inference

Ram Neta

O autorze

Anders Nes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has written on cognitive phenomenology, inference, and perception in various journals and edited collections. He has previously been a Researcher at the CSMN, University of Oslo, and a Career Development Fellow at Oxford University.

Timothy Chan was Researcher at the CSMN, University of Oslo. He had been a lecturer at the University of East Anglia and taught at several other universities. He edited The Aim of Belief (2013) and published research articles in journals including Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.