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Perception and Reason.
Title:
Perception and Reason.
Author:
Brewer, Bill.
ISBN:
9780191518966
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES PROVIDE REASONS -- 1 Historical-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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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