Cognition Through Understanding

<em>Cognition Through Understanding </em>presents a selection of Tyler Burge's essays that use epistemology to illumine powers of mind. The essays focus on epistemic warrants that differ from those warrants commonly discussed in epistemology--those for ordinary empirical beliefs and for logical and mathematical beliefs. The essays center on four types of cognition warranted through understanding--self-knowledge interlocution reasoning and reflection. Burge argues that by reflecting on warrants for these types of cognition one better understands cognitive powers that are distinctive of persons and (on earth) of human beings. The collection presents three previously unpublished independent essays in addition to substantial retrospective commentary. The retrospective commentary invites the reader to make connections that were not fully in mind when the essays were written.