Ockham’s Intuitive-Abstractive Knowledge and Parallels with Contemporary Cognitivism Cover Image

Ockhamovo intuitívnoabstraktívne poznanie a€paralely so súčasným kognitivizmom
Ockham’s Intuitive-Abstractive Knowledge and Parallels with Contemporary Cognitivism

Author(s): Rastislav Nemec
Subject(s): Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Middle Ages
Published by: Teologická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity
Keywords: Ockham; medieval epistemology; intuitive knowledge; abstractive knowledge; Dretske;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present some crucial notes on Ockham’s theory of intuitive and abstractive knowledge, on its differences and complementarity, with comparison to one of the contemporary cognitivist authors – Fred Dretske. Fred Dretske postulates different themes in his work, like empiristic grounds of consciousness, knowledge grasped as flow of informations. For this study we used his theory of two kinds of „encoding“. This study focuses on Ockham’s argumentation in favour of his epistemological theory and tries to find overlapping zones with Fred Dretske’s „analogical/digital encoding“ theory.

  • Issue Year: 3/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 33-51
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Slovak