We argue that intentions are beliefs—beliefs that are held in light of, and made rational by, practical reasoning. To intend to do something is neither more nor less than to believe, on the basis of one’s practical reasoning, that one will do it. The identification of the mental state of intention with the mental state of belief is what we call strong cognitivism about intentions. It is a stron...

Any learning theory based on some context and online courses should be theories. This paper adopts three new theories such as Cognitivism, Connectivism Heutagogy, which are considered to computer-typed or net-aware. A Contrast is made from their theoretical bases, viewpoints shortcomings. Cognitivism believes that study occurs in the mind while holds mainly out of mind. And Heutagogy stresses s...

In recent years it has become more and more difficult to distinguish between metaethical cognitivism and non-cognitivism. (Dreier 2004; van Roojen 2004) The distinction most often used to separate the two camps, until recently at least, was their position on the meaningfulness of moral statements and the applicability of truth-predicates to those statements. Cognitivists are said to hold that m...

In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical framework for understanding the mind that gained credence in the 1950s. The movement was a response to behaviorism, which cognitivists said neglected to explain cognition. Cognitive psychology derived its name from the Latin cognoscere, referring to knowing and information, thus cognitive psychology is an information-processing psychology derived in p...

The key factor which underwrites both the enduring appeal of cognitivism and its differences with social anthropology relates to ‘naturalism’, continuity perceived between animal humankind, combined a view priority realism over imagination. This paper begins by tracing path first marginalized religion then restored it central place, always relying on naturalistic account that links mental prope...

Abstract For Hans Albert, what is to be deemed morally right or wrong could either based on human conventions (decisions) findings of facts (cognitions). As an ethical non-cognitivist Albert emphasizes that decision-based are constitutive ‘morals/ethics’. Yet, it has been claimed Popper’s falsificationism applies prescriptive moral theories roughly as does descriptive empirical and this analogy...

Critics argue that non-cognitivism cannot adequately account for the existence and nature of some thick moral concepts. They use the existence of thick concepts as a lever in an argument against non-cognitivism, here called the Thick Concept Argument (TCA). While TCA is frequently invoked, it is unfortunately rarely articulated. In this paper, TCA is first reconstructed on the basis of John McD...

This paper examines how reference has been accounted for by the three main linguistic traditions in the 20 century: structuralism, analytical philosophy and cognitivism. Structuralism acknowledged the importance of reference but postponed its study to the future; analytical philosophy is centrally concerned with reference, thought and language and holds that the link between them can be account...