In his Essays on the Active Powers, Thomas reid criticises Hume’s theory of moral judgment and argues that it is untenable. The aim of this paper is to show that reid shares more with his target than is ordinarily acknowledged. The author suggests that the opposition between “cognitivism” and “non-cognitivism” concerning the role of feelings in moral judgment tends to obscure (disputable) assum...

In educational discourse on human learning (i.e., the result of experience) and development (i.e., the result of maturation), there are three fundamental theoretical frameworks, -behaviourism, cognitivism, and constructivism, each of which have been applied, with varying degrees of success, in online environments. An ecological framework of human learning and development in interactive learning...

tations of the human mind’s cognitive activities. Cognitivism became the foundation and the grounds for the design, thus for the development of one kind of IT system proposed not only for the needs of contemporary IT but also for the needs of medicine. This is due to the fact that cognitivism attempts to explain the perception and interaction taking place between a human being and a computer, o...

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...

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,...

Abstract In this paper, I argue that a realist account of the modality moral supervenience is superior to non-cognitivist account. According recommended account, amounts strong where outer ‘necessary’ conceptual and inner metaphysical. It argued non-cognitivism faces critical choice between weak both options are implausible on view. However, seems have an important advantage: can explain why by...

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...