Kant on cognition and knowledge

kant on the embodied cognition

kant on the embodied cognition

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Kant and Koch: Considerations on the Nature of Meaningful Knowledge

In the introduction to Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Kant notes that “it is nothing extraordinary in the elaboration of a science, when men begin to wonder how far it has advanced, that the question should at last occur, whether and how much a science is possible?”i It has been suggested that psychology, as a discipline distinct from the study of behavior and of brain chemistry, is fac...

Lessons from Kant: On Knowledge, Morality, and Beauty

Kant’s work contains numerous inspiring ideas regarding knowledge, morality, and beauty, and I will attempt to present some of them in this short essay. Following are very brief summaries of the main lessons that I suggest to take home. Knowledge is a synthesis of concepts and sensory data; it is never obtained by sheer accumulation of data (or facts); it is obtained by the organization of mean...

Quid Sico? On Cognition & Knowledge

This paper argues for and attempts to establish three major hypotheses: first, that some of the ideas behind today’s knowledge bases in use in intelligent agents are misleading and this is because most studies tend to overlook the critical differences between the concepts of information and of knowledge, of perception and of truth; second, that knowledge acquisition (or knowledge production, as...