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Cognition and Work : A Study Concerning the Value and Limits of the Pragmatic Motifs in the Cognition of the World / Max. Scheler ; translated from the German by Zachary Davis.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Scheler, Max, 1874-1928, author.
Contributor:
Davis, Zachary, 1972- translator.
Series:
Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy.
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Series
Standardized Title:
Erkenntnis und Arbeit. English
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Knowledge, Theory of.
Pragmatism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]
Summary:
"In Cognition and Work, Max Scheler offers an early critique of American pragmatism and demonstrates the dynamic relation that not only the human being but all living beings have to the environment they inhabit"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The Problem
The Essence and Meaning of Knowledge and Cognition: The Kinds of Knowledge
Philosophical Pragmatism
The Pragmatic Method
Concerning the Philosophy of Perception
The Metaphysics of Perception and the Problem of Reality: The Work and the Cognition Potential of Human Beings
Appendix: Manuscripts regarding Cognition and Work
The "Spirit" of Pragmatism and the Philosophical Concept of the Human Being
Pragmatism and More Recent Natural Science
Simultaneous Grounding of the Theory of Perception and the Theory of Formal-Mechanistic Natural Science
"The Pragmatist, the Idealist-and the Wise".
Notes:
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-8101-4270-8
OCLC:
1246553801

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