Philosophy of Knowledge; An Inquiry Into the Nature, Limits, and Validity of Human Cognitive Faculty - Brossura
Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV THE PSYCHOLOGICAL VIEW '"PHE necessity for steadfastly maintaining the proper psychological ooint of view in all reflective consideration of the philosophical problem of knowledge has already been sufficiently emphasized. A sketch of the history of opinion has shown how light broke in (for example, through Augustine, Descartes, Hume) upon this problem whenever an improved acquaintance with the nature of concrete mental phenomena was gained. It has also shown how, even in the case of the greatest of all critics of the human faculty of cognition, a certain despite of "mental physiology," or of the natural history of psychical life, and an excessive credulity toward the accepted forms of logic, was productive of important errors. Indeed, throughout the historical development of epistemological philosophy, defective and one-sided views of the psychology of cognition have been the chief sources of the fatal extremes of dogmatism and of agnosticism. We propose, then, to begin our discussion of the epistemological problem by taking the psychological point of view. What has psychology, as the descriptive and explanatory science of mental phenomena, to tell about the origin, the nature, and the growth of human cognitive faculty? Whence comes knowledge? What is knowledge? and What is the course of its development? These are the inquiries for which an answer is now sought from experience; and for the kind of answer now sought, there is no proper recourse but to the concrete, plain, work-a-day facts of human consciousness. It is not what the master of the subtleties of scholastic logic, or the student of psycho-physics by laboratory methods, or the philosophizer already committed to some metaphysical dogma thinks about knowledge,--which we now wish to know...
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