Cognition and Work

Max Scheler (1874–1928) was a prominent German philosopher and phenomenologist. He is the author of numerous books, including Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values and The Human Place in the Cosmos, both published by Northwestern University Press.Zachary Davis is an associate professor of philosophy at St. John’s University.

• AcknowledgementsTranslator’s IntroductionI. The ProblemII. The Essence and Meaning of Knowledge and Cognition – The Kinds of KnowledgeIII. The Philosophical PragmatismA. The Two Central Principles of Pragmatism – Historical Sources and Variations of the Pragmatic MovementB. The Errors of Pragmatism1. The Falsification of the Idea of Knowledge2. The Mistaken Ordering of the Reason-Consequence-Relationship of Knowledge and Action3. The Misrecognition of the Difference between Essential Knowledge and Inductive Knowledge4. The Mistaken Axioms of Pragmatic “Logic”C. The Partial Truth of Pragmatism: The Pragmatic Condition of the Formal-Mechanistic Theory of Nature -- Various Views regarding its Epistemic ValueIV. The Pragmatic Method: The methodological-pragmatic standpoint and its meaning for the philosophical interpretation of the mechanistic view of nature. The kinds of knowledge concerning natureV. Concerning the Philosophy of PerceptionA. Perception and Sensation1. Percpetual Content, Sensation, and the Trans-Conscious “Corporeal Images”2. The Relation Between Sensation and Perception – the Drive-Motor ConditionalityB. Perception and FantasyVI. The Metaphysics of Perception and the Problem of Reality – The Work and the Cognition Possibility of Human BeingsB ManuscriptsRegarding “Cognition and Work”a) The “Spirit” of Pragmatism and the philosophical Concept of the Human Being

Along with Scheler’s mature account of perception as a value-laden experience of living beings, this key text contains his complex assessment of the shortcomings and contributions of pragmatism as a form of knowing." —Daniel O. Dahlstrom, author of The Heidegger Dictionary