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1st Edition

Inference and Consciousness

Edited By Timothy Chan, Anders Nes Copyright 2020
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge
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Inference has long been a central concern in epistemology, as an essential means by which we extend our knowledge and test our beliefs. Inference is also a key notion in influential psychological accounts of mental capacities, ranging from problem-solving to perception. Consciousness, on the other hand, has arguably been the defining interest of philosophy of mind over recent decades.... Read more

Introduction: Inference and Consciousness

Anders Nes

Part I. Unconscious Inference in Cognitive Science and Psychiatry

  1. Unconscious Inference Theories of Cognitive Achievement

    2. Kirk Ludwig and Wade Munroe

  2. A Realist Perspective on Bayesian Cognitive Science

    3. Michael Rescorla

  3. The Role of Unconscious Inference in Models of Delusion Formation

    4. Federico Bongiorno and Lisa Bortolotti

    Part II. Inference in Speech Comprehension

  4. Seeing and hearing meanings - A Non-Inferential Approach to Speech Comprehension

    5. Berit Brogaard

  5. Metacognition and Inferential Accounts of Communication

    6. Nicholas Allott

    Part III. Inference, Structure, and Generality

  6. Non-Inferential Transitions: Imagery and Association

    7. Jake Quilty-Dunn and Eric Mandelbaum

  7. Knowledge of Logical Generality and the Possibility of Deductive Reasoning

    8. Corine Besson

    Part IV. Conscious Non-Demonstrative Inference

  8. Fore- and Background in Conscious Non-Demonstrative Inference

    9. Anders Nes

  9. Morphological Content and Chromatic Illumination in Belief-Fixation

    10. David Henderson, Terry Horgan, and Matjaž Potrc¿

    Part V. Inference and Perceptual and Introspective Knowledge

  10. Experience and Epistemic Structure: Can Cognitive Penetration Result in Epistemic Downgrade?

    11. Elijah Chudnoff

  11. The Transparency of Inference

Ram Neta

Biography

Anders Nes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has written on cognitive phenomenology, inference, and perception in various journals and edited collections. He has previously been a Researcher at the CSMN, University of Oslo, and a Career Development Fellow at Oxford University.

Timothy Chan was Researcher at the CSMN, University of Oslo. He had been a lecturer at the University of East Anglia and taught at several other universities. He edited The Aim of Belief (2013) and published research articles in journals including Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.

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