Some authors defend literary cognitivism – the view that literary fiction is cognitively valu­ able – by drawing an analogy between cognitive values of thought experiments and literary fiction. In this paper my aim is to analyse the reasons for drawing this analogy and to see how far the analogy can be stretched. In the second part, I turn to the claim put forward by literary anti­cognitivists ...

1. INTRODUCTION W.V. Quine has expressed a fairly conventional form of non-cognitivism in those of his writings that concern the status of moral judgments. For instance, in Quine (1981), he argues that ethics, as compared with science, is 'methodologically infirm'. The reason is that while science is responsive to observation, and therefore 'retains some title to a correspondence theory of trut...

This article examines the epistemological claims made by four paradigms used to study leisure meanings: behaviorism, cognitivism, individual constructivism, and social constructivism.These paradigms represent diverseand contrasting theoretical explanations of how individuals gain knowledge about and givemeaning to the phenomenon of leisure and of how these meanings differ and change. Analysis o...

In this paper two concepts of psychologism in logic are outlined: the one which Frege and Husserl fought against and the new psychologism, or cognitivism, which underlies a cognitive turn in contemporary logic. Four issues such cognitively oriented logic should be interested in are indicated. They concern: new fields opened for logical analysis, new methods and tools needed to address these fie...

It is counterintuitive to many investigators of body movement to learn that understanding visible forms of expression does not depend upon detailed observation of what can be seen. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that the unobservable components of meaning must therefore be located .in internal mental states or processes-a move typical of what Harre and Gillett have called the "first ...

Let cognitivism be the view that moral judgments are cognitive mental states and noncognitivism they noncognitive states. Here I argue for judgment pluralism: some More specifically, according to my pluralism because carry a content (e.g., genocide is wrong) employ attitude indignation, or guilt); former latter ones. After explaining motivating view, this kind of handles quite elegantly several...