LOGICAL NON-COGNITIVISM

Non-cognitivism and Inconsistency

Wittgenstein's 'Non-Cognitivism' - Explained and Vindicated

The later Wittgenstein advanced a revolutionary but puzzling conception of how philosophy ought to be practised: Philosophical problems are not to be coped with by establishing substantive claims or devising explanations or theories. Instead, philosophical questions ought to be treated ‘like an illness’. Even though this ‘non-cognitivism’ about philosophy has become a focus of debate, the speci...

Cognitivism in Political Philosophy

A constraint on political cognitivism is that it give some basis for responding to certain worries. These worries prompt political liberals such as Rawls to deny that the search for truth can provide a shared basis for a conception of justice in a pluralistic democratic society.2 On this view, a pluralistic democratic state that avoids the authoritarian use of state power should be neutral abou...

Vision and abstraction: an empirical refutation of Nico Orlandi’s non-cognitivism

Vision and abstraction: an empirical refutation of Nico Orlandi’s non-cognitivism Christopher Mole & Jiaying Zhao To cite this article: Christopher Mole & Jiaying Zhao (2016) Vision and abstraction: an empirical refutation of Nico Orlandi’s non-cognitivism, Philosophical Psychology, 29:3, 365-373, DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2015.1081163 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515089.201...

Real Algorithms: A Defense of Cognitivism

Cognitivism is the view that cognition, emotion, and even perception consist of algorithmic transformations of symbols. Since virtually all cognitivists are materialists, few of them believe that these algorithmic transformations of symbols take place in any spiritual or non-physical medium. So, for all practical purposes, cognitivism implies that the brain is an algorithmic symbol-transformer,...