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On Reflection (Paperback)
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On Reflection (Paperback)
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Hilary Kornblith presents a new account of reflection, and its
importance for knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity.
Philosophers have frequently extolled the value of reflective
self-examination, and a wide range of philosophers, who differ on
many other things, have argued that reflection can help to solve a
number of significant philosophical problems. The importance of
reflecting on one's beliefs and desires has been viewed as the key
to solving problems about justification and knowledge; about
reasoning; about the nature of freedom; and about the source of
normativity. In each case, a problem is identified which reflective
self-examination is thought to address. Kornblith argues that
reflection cannot solve any of these problems. There is a common
structure to these issues, and the problems which reflection is
thought to resolve are ones which could not possibly be solved by
reflecting on one's beliefs and desires. More than this, he
suggests that the attempt to solve these problems by appealing to
reflection saddles us with a mystical view of the powers of
reflective self-examination. Recognition of this fact motivates a
search for a demystified view of the nature of reflection. To this
end, Kornblith offers a detailed examination of views about
knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity in order to better
understand the motivations for extolling self-reflective
examination. He explores both the logic of these views, and the
psychological commitments they involve. In the final chapter, he
offers a more realistic view of reflection, which draws on dual
process approaches to cognition.
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