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Issue 30 (December 2011)


Ernst Cassirer and Nelson Goodman on the problem of cognition (in Polish)

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Tomasz Kubalica, PhD
University of Katowice
Department of Philosophy
11 Bankowa St
PL-40-007 Katowice
e-mail: tomasz.kubalica@us.edu.pl
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Tomasz Kubalica, Ernst Cassirer and Nelson Goodman on the problem of cognition (in Polish), Diametros 30 (December 2011)

The article elucidates and compares Ernst Cassirer's and Nelson Goodman's positions on the problem of cognition. They agree in rejecting the theory of reflection and accepting the concept of transformation. This transformation is not a total antithesis of reflection, but an extension of it: recognition means both creative production and imitative reflection. This eliminates the traditional epistemological dichotomy between constructing and discovering. The shared premise for both philosophers is the rejection of the primacy of facts and sense data, with the result that the extended concept of cognition becomes an irrealistic concept of symbolic representation. The article examines the most important similarities and differences in views of these two thinkers.

Keywords: Ernst Cassirer, Nelson Goodman, theory of reflection, truth, Neo-Kantianism
 
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