William Brant

Critique of Sarcastic Reason

The Epistemology of the Cognitive Neurological Ability Called "Theory-of-Mind" and Deceptive Reasoning

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Produktbeschreibung

Critique of Sarcastic Reason is a philosophical dissertation that combines several different fields in order to pave the way for those studying sarcasm at the neurobiological, communicative and socio-political levels of analysis where sarcasm appears, respectively, through associated brain activity, between two or more individuals with higher level metabeliefs, and as a method by which political, religious and other social ideologies are attacked (i.e., one form of "biting sarcasm"). The academic disciplines involved in Critique of Sarcastic Reason include social cognitive and developmental psychology, neuroscience, critical theory, modern and contemporary philosophy of mind, evolutionary biology, logic, metaphysics and epistemology. Sarcasm is argued to only function at the highest levels of metacognition, and sarcasm occurs within social situations during which there are tendencies for two or more people to form desires and disgusts directly related to beliefs about beliefs. Sarcasm is compared to deception and is argued to be best analyzed as either spontaneous or rehearsed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9783838134574
• ISBN-10: 3838134575
• Artikelnr.: 36203358

Autorenporträt

Dr. William Brant lectures in the philosophy department at Texas State University and the distance education department at the University of Maryland University College Europe. Professor Brant earned a Fulbright scholarship for study at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany where he taught at the Schloß Gymnasium.