Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
cognitivism
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Examples
-
"cognitivist" theories is their particular understanding of these cognitions.
-
Non-cognitivist theories (Hare's prescriptivism, Ayer's emotivism, more recently Allan Gibbard's expressivism), which variously deny that moral statements can be true or false, render moral judgment so subjective and capricious that, strictly speaking, it might just as well extend to "the wrongness of running round trees right-handed or looking at hedgehogs in the light of the moon".
-
Indeed, from a cognitivist perspective, teaching might well be defined as the ‘management of attention for pedagogical purposes’.
-
Indeed, from a cognitivist perspective, teaching might well be defined as the ‘management of attention for pedagogical purposes’.
-
Thanks, but I don't call myself an agnostic; I am a theological non-cognitivist (sometimes called an "ignostic").
-
But many of the most interesting historical writings fall squarely within the “cognitivist” approach, and their examples support an interpretation of historical knowledge that is evidence-based, rigorous, and post-positivist.
-
I would guess that cognitivist theories would look very different from design theories and those in turn would differ from a variety of ethnographic/anthropological theories.
-
But not every more moderate internalist principle will be easily explained by a corresponding non-cognitivist theory.
-
But many of the most interesting historical writings fall squarely within the “cognitivist” approach, and their examples support an interpretation of historical knowledge that is evidence-based, rigorous, and post-positivist.
-
UnderstandingSociety: A cognitivist philosophy of history skip to main
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.