This book advances our theoretical understanding of the human experience. By overcoming dualities such as the relationship between reflection and action, it allows a more in-depth analysis of how concepts constitute complementary parts of the complex human thinking to be developed.

Presenting texts written by leading philosophers and psychologists, it provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of theoretical elaboration, which is then used to discuss the place and value of reflection in moral and epistemic scenes. These topics are accessible to experts and young scholars in the field alike, and offer scope for further reflections that could improve our understanding beyond the existing models and "-isms".

The novelty of the book is in the dialogue established between several perspectives (e.g. philosophers and psychologists; Europe, America and Asia; etc.). The contributions of philosophers and psychologists establish a fruitful dialogue, so that readers realize that disciplinary divisions are overcome through dialogue and the common object of inquiry: the way human beings reflect and act in their everyday experiences.

Autorentext

Waldomiro J. Silva Filho is Associate Professor of Epistemology at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and Researcher Grantee from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). e was visting scholar in the Department of Philospphy at Harvard University (2009-2010) and in the Department of Linguistics and Philospphy at MIT (2015-2016). He coordinates the Grup of Research Mind, Knowledge, Reality. His research interests are in skepticism, moral philosophy, virtue epistemology.

Luca Tateo is visiting professor of Cultural Psychology at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil), and Honorary Associate in School of Psychology within the Faculty of Science, Sydney University (Australia). He has been Associate Professor in Epistemology and History of Cultural Psychology at the Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University (Denmark). His research interests are the study of imaginative processes as higher psychological functions, the epistemology and history of psychological sciences, the art of psychology and the affective logic in atmospheric dynamics. He is chief editor of the book series Innovations n Qualitative Research, Information Age Publishing, and co-editor in chief of the journal Human Arenas. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Culture, and Meaning, Springer.

Inhalt

Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Examined live - an epistemological exchange between philosophy and cultural psychology on reflection (Waldomiro Silva Filho, Luca Tateo and Felipe Santos).- Part I: The Place and Value of Reflection in Philosophy.- Chapter 2. Animal Versus Reflective Orders of Epistemic Competence (Ernest Sosa).- Chapter 3. The Status of Reflection in Virtue Epistemology (Christopher Kelp).- Chapter 4. The Social Value of Reflection (John Greco).- Chapter 5. Disagreement, Intellectual Humility, and Reflection (Duncan Pritchard).- Chapter 6. Philosophical Reflection and Rashness (Plinio J. Smith).- Part II: The Place and Value of Reflection in Psychology.- Chapter 7. Between Feeling and Symbolization: Philosophical Paths to Thinking about Oneself (Robert E. Innis).- Chapter 8. Mirrors and Reflexive processes: From looking oneself in the mirror to sensemaking one's own experience. Insidious paths between semiotics, cultural psychology and dynamic psychology (Raffaele De Luca Picione).- Chapter 9. Bodily origin of self-reflection and its socially extended aspects (Shogo Tanaka).- Chapter 10. Psychological reflection, thought and imagination as epistemic skills (Miika Vähämaa).