Giorgio Bertini
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Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument
This leading guide helps students to develop reflective thinking skills, improve their critical analysis and construct arguments more effectively. Written by Stella Cottrell, a leader in the field with over one million book sales to date, this text breaks down … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thinking
Tagged critical thinking
Extending the extended mind: the case for extended affectivity
The thesis of the extended mind (ExM) holds that the material underpinnings of an individual’s mental states and processes need not be restricted to those contained within biological boundaries: when conditions are right, material artefacts can be incorporated by the … Continue reading
Posted in Affect, Emotions, Extended mind
Tagged affect, emotions, extended mind
Extended Cognition and the Internet
The Internet is an important focus of attention for those concerned with issues of extended cognition. In particular, the application of active externalist theorizing to the Internet gives rise to the notion of Internet-extended cognition: the idea that the Internet … Continue reading
Posted in Extended cognition, Internet
Tagged extended cognition, internet
The complexities of knowledge
“Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning,” according to Wikipedia’s definition. Knowledge can also refer to a … Continue reading
Epistemological Problems of Perception
The central problem in the epistemology of perception is that of explaining how perception could give us knowledge or justified belief about an external world, about things outside of ourselves. This problem has traditionally been viewed in terms of a … Continue reading
Posted in Epistemology, Perception
Tagged epistemology, perception
The Value of Knowledge
The value of knowledge has always been a central topic within epistemology. Going all the way back to Plato’s Meno, philosophers have asked, why is knowledge more valuable than mere true belief? Interest in this question has grown in recent … Continue reading
Beyond the Sociobiological Dilemma: Social Emotions and the Evolution of Morality
Is morality biologically altruistic? Does it imply a disadvantage in the struggle for existence? A positive answer puts morality at odds with natural selection unless natural selection operates at the level of groups. In this case, a trait that is … Continue reading
Posted in Morality, Social emotions
Tagged morality, social emotions
The Social Ontology of Democracy
This paper offers an account of the social foundations of a theory of democracy. It purports to show that a social ontology of democracy is the necessary counterpart of a political theory of democracy. It notably contends that decisions concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Social ontology
Tagged democracy, social ontology
Social Structures and the Ontology of Social Groups
Social groups—like teams, committees, gender groups, and racial groups—play a central role in our lives and in philosophical inquiry. Here I develop and motivate a structuralist ontology of social groups centered on social structures (i.e., networks of relations that are … Continue reading
Posted in Social groups, Social ontology
Tagged social groups, social ontology
The sociobiology of everyday life
The 1000-year-old novel The Tale of Genji, written by Murasaki Shikibu around 1002 CE, shows the operation of general principles of sociobiology. Isolated from western influences and cloaked in Japanese traditions, the common traits associated with reproductive processes are clearly … Continue reading
Posted in Sociobiology
Tagged sociobiology
