Cognition Through Understanding

Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge's essays on cognition, thought, and language. The essays collected here use epistemology as a way of interpreting underlying powers of mind, and focus on four types of cognition that are warranted through understanding: self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection.

Tyler Burge is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Frege (OUP, 2005), Foundations of Mind (OUP, 2007), and Origins of Objectivity (OUP, 2010).

1: Introduction
I: Self-Knowledge
2: Individualism and Self-Knowledge
3: Our Entitlement to Self-Knowledge
4: Memory and Self-Knowledge
5: A Century of Deflation and a Moment of Self-Knowledge
6: Mental Agency in Authoritative Self-Knowledge: Reply to Kobes
7: Self and Self-Understanding: the Dewey Lectures - Some Origins of Self
8: Self and Self-Understanding: the Dewey Lectures - Self and Constitutive Norms
9: Self and Self-Understanding: the Dewey Lectures - Self-Understanding
II: Interlocution
10: Content Preservation
11: Postscript: 'Content Preservation'
12: Interlocution, Perception, and Memory
13: Computer Proof, Apriori Knowledge, and Other Minds
14: Comprehension and Interpretation
15: A Warrant for Belief in Other Minds
III: Reasoning and the Individuality of Persons
16: Reason and the First Person
17: Memory and Persons
18: De Se Preservation and Personal Identity: Reply to Shoemaker
19: Modest Dualism
20: Epistemic Warrant: Humans and Computers
IV: Reflection
21: Reasoning about Reasoning
22: Thought Experiments and Semantic Competence: Reply to Benejam
23: Concepts, Conceptions, Reflective Understanding: Reply to Peacocke
24: Reflection
25: Living Wages of Sinn
Bibliography
Index