O pragmatismo é apresentado como uma atitude anti-representacionista, isto é, como uma crítica à idéia de fundamentação do conhecimento ou da verdade. Esta crítica torna-se possível a partir de uma interpretação funcional para o problema do conhecimento, segundo a qual…

Based on the notion of language-game, as formulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the relation ship between language, individual practice, belief and knowledge is examined. Knowing is identified as context-adjusted behavior, under learning or extended exercise, while beliefs are considered as dispositional…

This paper critically analyzes the cognitive-map concept in terms oh) its subjectivity, as seen in the characterization of environmental knowledge as “images” of the world; b) its use of the information-processing approach in modeling environmental perception; c) its restricted representation…

The last work published by Watson as an academic is dated 1920. It deals with the conditioning of fear in a young child, little Albert. Starting with that single case experiment, the present paper is based on Watson's publications after…

Scientific research, as equivalent to methodology of science, has been traditionally approached from different viewpoints as those provided by formal logic, sociological and historical analyses, ethnographic description, and psychological interpretations. A model based upon Ludwig Wittgenstein's notion of language-game is…