Essays about: "cognitivism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word cognitivism.

  1. 1. Merits of the Flipped Classroom : Distance-students’ perception of usefulness and challenges regarding the flipped classroom concept in higher education

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för informatik (IK)

    Author : Kevin Fuchs; [2020]
    Keywords : Flipped Classroom; Educational Technology; Distance Learning; Connectivism;

    Abstract : The educational sector was transforming, wherein distance learning was considered a contemporary alternative to the campus-based learning approach. The flipped classroom concept was a well-researched method that could be applied within the distance-learning paradigm. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Critique of the Learning Brain

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Joakim Olsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Learning Brain; Learning; Cognitivism; Representational Theory of Mind; Computational Theory of Mind; Mentalism; Mind-Brain Identity; Computer Analogy; Scientism; Anthropological Holism; Enactivism; Intentionality; Intentional Action; Phenomenology; Philosophy of Mind; Cognitive Science; Capabilities; Practical Knowledge; Bildung; Wolf Singer; Kurt W. Fischer; Jerry Fodor; Vincent Descombes; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Elizabeth Anscombe; Evan Thompson;

    Abstract : The guiding question for this essay is: who is the learner? The aim is to examine and criticize one answer to this question, sometimes referred to as the theory of the learning brain, which suggests that the explanation of human learning can be reduced to the transmitting and storing of information in the brain’s formal and representational architecture, i.e. READ MORE

  4. 3. Individualism and Co-Operation in Thought: Co-Cognitivism as a Defence of Anti-Individualism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Daniel Carlström Schad; [2020]
    Keywords : Externalism; Anti-individualism; Co-cognitivism; Co-cognition; Social anti-individualism; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : Social anti-individualists suggest that the social environment enters into the individuation of psychological contents. This is defended by the now-famous arthritis thought experiment. Nevertheless, counterarguments have been proposed that aim to undermine the thought experiment. READ MORE

  5. 4. Problems for Michael Gill’s semantic pluralism : The ostensibility of certain moral agreements and disagreements

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Simon Engström; [2020]
    Keywords : Semantic pluralism; meta-ethics; metaethics; semantics; cognitivism; non-cognitivism; Michael Gill; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; moral disagreement; ostensibility; Semantisk pluralism; meta-etik; metaetik; semantik; kognitivism; icke-kognitivism; Michael Gill; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; moralisk oenighet; skenbarhet;

    Abstract : This paper concerns the semantic branch of meta-ethics, and examines a version of so called semantic pluralism advocated by Michael Gill. Briefly put, Gill suggests that ordinary people’s usage of moral terms is rather messy in the sense that the meaning of moral terms can vary not only between different people, but also for one and the same person in different contexts. READ MORE

  6. 5. Justification and Moral Cognitivism : An Analysis of Jürgen Habermas's Metaethics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Elfström; [2018]
    Keywords : Habermas; cognitivism; metaethics; justification; human rights; Habermas; kognitivism; metaetik; etisk teori; berättigande; mänskliga rättigheter;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I scrutinise and interpret Jürgen Habermas’s claim that justification of moral norms necessitates cognitivism. I do this by analysing the general idea behind his discourse theory of morality and then his metaethics. READ MORE