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Perception and Reason

Perception and Reason


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Bill Brewer sets out an original view of the role of conscious experience in the acquisition of empirical knowledge. Most epistemology of perception takes a person's possession of beliefs about the mind-independent world for granted and goes on to ask what further conditions these beliefs must meet if they are to be cases of knowledge. Brewer argues that this approach is completely mistaken. Perceptual experiences must provide reasons for empirical beliefs if there are to be any determinate beliefs at all about particular objects in the world. The crucial epistemological role of experience lies in its essential contribution to the subject's understanding of certain perceptual demonstrative contents, simply grasping which provides him with a reason to endorse them in belief. Brewer explains in detail how this is so, defends his position against a wide range of objections, and compares and contrasts it with a number of influential alternative views in the area. He brings out its connection with Russell's Principle of Acquaintance, and examines its conseqences for the compatibility of content externalism with an adequate account of self-knowledge. Perception and Reason offers a fresh approach to epistemology, turning away from the search for necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge and working instead from a theory of understanding in a particular area.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Perceptual Experiences Provide Reasons1: Historical-Epistemological Context 2: Belief and Experience 3: Experience and Reason 4: Epistemological Consequences and Criticisms The Rational Role of Perceptual Experiences5: Reasons Require Conceptual Contents 6: The Rational Role of Perceptual Experiences 7: The Epistemological Outlook 8: Developments and Consequences Bibliography, Index

About the Author :
Bill Brewer is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. He has held visiting positions at Brown University and at the University of California, Berkeley, and a three-year research fellowship at King's College, Cambridge. He is the co-editor of Spatial Representation (1993).

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`A review of this length cannot do Brewer's argument justice, and can only barely indicate the richness of his discussion. (I highly recommend chapter five, in which he puts a vigorous case against the widespread idea of nonconceptual content.) Whether or not one is persuaded of his main contentions, it is impossible to work through the book without at least defining and sharpening one's own views.' William G. Lycan, Mind


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199250455
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199250456
  • Publisher Date: 07 Mar 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 435 gr


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