Perception and Reason

ISBN-13: 9780199250455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 300 str.

Dr Bill Brewer

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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).