The cognitive act and the first-person perspective: an epistemology for constructive type theory |
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Authors: | Maria van der Schaar |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Philosophy, University of Szczecin, Krakowska 71, Szczecin, 71-004, Poland |
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Abstract: | The notion of cognitive act is of importance for an epistemology that is apt for constructive type theory, and for epistemology
in general. Instead of taking knowledge attributions as the primary use of the verb ‘to know’ that needs to be given an account
of, and understanding a first-person knowledge claim as a special case of knowledge attribution, the account of knowledge
that is given here understands first-person knowledge claims as the primary use of the verb ‘to know’. This means that a cognitive
act is an act that counts as cognitive from a first-person point of view. The method of linguistic phenomenology is used to
explain or elucidate our epistemic notions. One of the advantages of the theory is that an answer can be given to some of
the problems in modern epistemology, such as the Gettier problem. |
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