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A theory of immediate awareness : self-organization and adaptation in natural intelligence /

This book presents a realist, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary theory of immediate awareness showing it is the most primitive cognitive network underlying all our natural intelligence. Including preattentive and attention processes, as well as primitive relations of the senses, imagination an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Estep, Myrna
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]
Subjects:
Awareness.
Intellect.
Consciousness.
Intelligence.
Knowledge.
Psychological Theory.
Bewusstsein.
Erkenntnistheorie.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Problem of Immediate Awareness
  • The Influence of Nominalism, Idealism, and Behaviorism
  • A Place for Ontological Questions
  • Historical Background of the Problem: The Dualist Legacy of Descartes' Crooked Question
  • From the Linguistic Turn to the Cognitive Naturalistic Turn
  • The Knowing That and Knowing How Distinction: Manner of a Performance and Multiple Intelligences
  • The Limits of Representation (Classification): The Role of Indexicals and Unique Objects Present
  • The Indexical Operator, Unlike Any Other: Sui Generis Objects
  • The Basic Computational Idea and Argument
  • The Primitive Relations of Knowledge by Acquaintance
  • A Realist Theory of Immediate Awareness
  • Analysis of Experience: Russell's Knowledge by Acquaintance
  • The Scope of the Domain of Experience
  • Indexicality: A Way to Publicly Access Immediate Awareness
  • Experiencing and Its Objects
  • Acquaintance with Mathematical Objects: Problems with Unnameables, Nameability and the Berry Paradox
  • The Primitive Relations
  • The Primitive Relation of Attention
  • The Primitive Relations of Sensation and Imagination
  • The Concept of Image
  • Imagination and Sensation Defined
  • Primitive Acquaintance with Relations Themselves
  • Arguments Against Immediate Awareness: The Case of Naturalism
  • Definitions of Certain Terms
  • Non-Inferential Beliefs: Self-Evident Beliefs and a Vox Populi Theory of Knowledge
  • A Naturalist Explanation of Coming to Know Natural Language
  • Learning as a Process of Induction: A Spurious Concept
  • Two Concepts of Induction.