What We Mean by Experience:
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Main Author: Janack, Marianne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Palo Alto Stanford University Press 2012
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Item Description:Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Linguistic Turn and the Ascendancy of Anti-foundationalism; 2. Cognitive Sciences of Experience; 3. Children and Other Living Computers; 4. Feminist Discussions of Experience; 5. Naturalism and Agency; 6. Experience Recaptured; Notes; References; Index
Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this problem was compounded as the concept of experience itself came under scrutiny. First hailed as a wellspring of knowledge and the weapon that would vanquish metaphysics and Cartesianism by pragmatists like Dewey and James, by the century's end experience had become a mere vestige of both, a holdov
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
ISBN:0804784302
9780804784306

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