Perception and reason / Bill Brewer.

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Brewer, Bill, Dr

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 281 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191518966
0191518964
9780191597114
0191597112
0199250456
9780199250455

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Perception and reason.DDC classification:

121.34 22

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BD181 .B815 1999eb

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08.32

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Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I. PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES PROVIDE REASONS""; ""1 Historicalâ€?Epistemological Context""; ""2 Belief and Experience""; ""2.1 Preliminaries""; ""2.2 The Strawson Argument""; ""2.3 Refinements""; ""3 Experience and Reason""; ""3.1 The Switching Argument""; ""3.2 Knowledge by Description""; ""3.3 Conceptual Redeployment""; ""3.4 Natural Kinds and Proper Names""; ""3.5 Are There Unitary Concepts of Mind-Independent Things?""; ""4 Epistemological Consequences and Criticisms""; ""4.1 Reliabilism""; ""4.2 Classical Foundationalism""

""4.3 Classical Coherentism""""4.4 Conclusion""; ""PART II. THE RATIONAL ROLE OF PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES""; ""5 Reasons Require Conceptual Contents""; ""5.1 The Basic Argument""; ""5.2 Possible Counterexamples""; ""5.3 Non-Conceptual Experiential Content Is Unmotivated""; ""6 The Rational Role of Perceptual Experiences""; ""6.1 Objective Demonstratives""; ""6.2 Epistemic Openness""; ""6.3 Clarifications""; ""7 The Epistemological Outlook""; ""7.1 Foundationalism and Coherentism""; ""7.2 Imagination""; ""7.3 Error and Scepticism""; ""7.4 Further Objections""; ""8 Developments and Consequences""

""8.1 Non-Demonstrative Perceptual Knowledge""""8.2 Russell's Principle of Acquaintance""; ""8.3 Externalism and A Priori Knowledge""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

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Summary: This volume presents an original view of the role of conscious experience in the acquisition of knowledge. It argues that experiences must provide reasons for beliefs if there are to be any beliefs about the mind-independent world at all.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.

This volume presents an original view of the role of conscious experience in the acquisition of knowledge. It argues that experiences must provide reasons for beliefs if there are to be any beliefs about the mind-independent world at all.

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