{"product_id":"9780810146631-structure-thought","title":"Structure and Thought","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition\u003cbr\u003eOffers a new understanding of representational cognition that synthesizes postwar philosophical approaches to the question of objective knowledge. Daniel Sacilotto offers a constructive response to the critique of representation formulated throughout the post-Kantian philosophical tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers a new understanding of representational cognition that synthesizes postwar philosophical approaches to the question of objective knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStructure and Thought: Toward a Materialist Theory of Representational Cognition\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41616771612769,"sku":"9780810146631","price":27.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41025950.jpg?v=1777006517","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780810146631-structure-thought","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}