Perception and Reason,9780198235675

Perception and Reason

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ISBN13: 9780198235675
ISBN10: 0198235674
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-06-10
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Bill Brewer presents an original view of the role of conscious experience in the acquisition of empirical knowledge. He argues that perceptual experiences must provide reasons for empirical beliefs if there are to be any determinate beliefs at all about particular objects in the world. This fresh approach to epistemology turns away from the search for necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge and works instead from a theory of understanding in a particular area.

Author Biography


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 the University of California, Berkeley, and a three-year research fellowship at King's College Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
PART I. PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES PROVIDE REASONS
Historical--Epistemological Context
3(15)
Belief and Experience
18(31)
Preliminaries
19(6)
The Strawson Argument
25(4)
Refinements
29(20)
Experience and Reason
49(43)
The Switching Argument
50(10)
Knowledge by Description
60(3)
Conceptual Redeployment
63(4)
Natural Kinds and Proper Names
67(19)
Are There Unitary Concepts of Mind-Independent Things?
86(6)
Epistemological Consequences and Criticisms
92(57)
Reliabilism
92(20)
Classical Foundationalism
112(17)
Classical Coherentism
129(15)
Conclusion
144(5)
PART II. THE RATIONAL ROLE OF PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES
Reasons Require Conceptual Contents
149(35)
The Basic Argument
150(2)
Possible Counterexamples
152(17)
Non-Conceptual Experiential Content Is Unmotivated
169(15)
The Rational Role of Perceptual Experiences
184(32)
Objective Demonstratives
186(17)
Epistemic Openness
203(4)
Clarifications
207(9)
The Epistemological Outlook
216(26)
Foundationalism and Coherentism
216(7)
Imagination
223(4)
Error and Scepticism
227(9)
Further Objections
236(6)
Developments and Consequences
242(27)
Non-Demonstrative Perceptual Knowledge
242(9)
Russell's Principle of Acquaintance
251(11)
Externalism and A Priori Knowledge
262(7)
Bibliography 269(8)
Index 277

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