Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge's essays on cognition, thought, and language. The essays collected here use epistemology as a way of interpreting underlying powers of mind, and focus on four types of cognition that are warranted through understanding: self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection.

1. Introduction ; I: SELF-KNOWLEDGE ; 2. Individualism and Self-Knowledge ; 3. Our Entitlement to Self-Knowledge ; 4. Memory and Self-Knowledge ; 5. A Century of Deflation and a Moment of Self-Knowledge ; 6. Mental Agency in Authoritative Self-Knowledge: Reply to Kobes ; 7. Self and Self-Understanding: the Dewey Lectures - Some Origins of Self ; 8. Self and Self-Understanding: the Dewey Lectures - Self and Constitutive Norms ; 9. Self and Self-Understanding: the Dewey Lectures - Self-Understanding ; II: INTERLOCUTION ; 10. Content Preservation ; 11. Postscript: 'Content Preservation' ; 12. Interlocution, Perception, and Memory ; 13. Computer Proof, Apriori Knowledge, and Other Minds ; 14. Comprehension and Interpretation ; 15. A Warrant for Belief in Other Minds ; III: REASONING AND THE INDIVIDUALITY OF PERSONS ; 16. Reason and the First Person ; 17. Memory and Persons ; 18. De Se Preservation and Personal Identity: Reply to Shoemaker ; 19. Modest Dualism ; 20. Epistemic Warrant: Humans and Computers ; IV: REFLECTION ; 21. Reasoning about Reasoning ; 22. Thought Experiments and Semantic Competence: Reply to Benejam ; 23. Concepts, Conceptions, Reflective Understanding: Reply to Peacocke ; 24. Reflection ; 25. Living Wages of Sinn ; Bibliography ; Index

A selection of influential essays by a leading figure in contemporary philosophy Presents classic works alongside less familiar essays Includes substantial introduction, three previously unpublished essays, and new commentary on earlier work

Tyler Burge is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Frege (OUP, 2005), Foundations of Mind (OUP, 2007), and Origins of Objectivity (OUP, 2010).

A selection of influential essays by a leading figure in contemporary philosophy Presents classic works alongside less familiar essays Includes substantial introduction, three previously unpublished essays, and new commentary on earlier work