Cognition as Mediation: Essays on Self-Organising Exteriority

Prof. Dr. Edmundo Balsemão Pires

doi:10.5771/9783495987339

Summary

What if knowledge were never immediate? In Cognition as Mediation, Edmundo Balsemão Pires delivers a powerful systemic critique of the myth of unmediated experience and inductive immediacy. Challenging both transcendental idealism and narrow anthropocentric naturalism, this groundbreaking work reorients epistemology around mediation, pattern transformation, and the autonomy of social and technological systems.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2026
Copyright Year: 2026
ISBN-Print: 978-3-495-98732-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-495-98733-9
Publisher: Karl Alber, Baden-Baden
Series: Ethics, Law and AI
Volume: 6
Language: English
Pages: 283
Product Type: Monograph

Preface No access Pages 1 - 8
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 12
1. 1. 1. 1.1 Premises No access
    2. 1.2 Aristotelian inferences and the situation of induction in reasoning No access
  2. 1. 2.1 Induction, discovery of hypotheses, and chance games No access
    2. 2.2 Sceptical suspension and the logical impossibility of inductive reasoning No access
    3. 2.3 Action systems and expectations No access
    4. 2.4 Induction, enumeration, and confirmation No access
  3. 1. 3.1 Distinguishing induction from probability calculus – John Venn No access
    2. 3.2 Probability and rational belief – John M. Keynes No access
    3. 3.3 Pragmatics of induction and probability – Hans Reichenbach No access
    4. 3.4 First-order and second-order induction and probabilities – Georg H. von Wright No access
    5. 3.5 Pragmatics of defeasible reasoning – John Pollock No access
    6. 3.6 Exploratory remarks – the cost of inductive risk, testimonies, and social learning No access
  4. 1. 4.1 Discovery, justification, and reproduction of knowledge No access
    2. 4.2 Mechanised induction No access
2. 1. 1. Introduction to the theme of life and intentionality before E. Husserl’s Krisis No access
  2. 1. 2.1 The “European Humanity” and the tasks of philosophy No access
    2. 2.2 Lebenswelt in the Krisis der Europäischen Wissenschaften No access
    3. 2.3 From transcendental constitution to mediation and mediation fields No access
  3. 1. 3.1 From the ego to the strangers No access
    2. 3.2 Social typification and social categorisation No access
  4. 4. A Pragmatist Explanation of the World of the Natural Attitude – Pragmatics of Daily Life and Phenomenology No access
  5. 5. Extension or Full Mediation? No access
1. 1. 1. Iteration of the Intelligible and exteriority No access
  2. 1. 2.1 Technical Mediality No access
    2. 2.2 Symbolic Mediality No access
2. 1. 1. 1.1 Craftsmen and artefacts No access
    2. 1.2 Industry, Machinery and Goods No access
    3. 1.3 Automaton No access
    4. 1.4 Technology and social causality No access
  2. 1. 2.1 Birth of a genre No access
    2. 2.2 “Cultual value” and “exhibition value” of works of art No access
    3. 2.3 Critique of popular culture against reification by the media No access
    4. 2.4 Critique and rationality No access
  3. 1. 3.1 Art’s morphological crisis and modernism No access
    2. 3.2 DADA Machines and Transmorphs No access
    3. 1. 3.3.1 Chance No access
      2. 3.3.2 Noise No access
      3. 3.3.3 Metacommunication No access
  4. 4. Forms, Diagrams and Media No access
Conclusion No access Pages 271 - 274
Bibliographic Sources No access Pages 275 - 282