Reasons and Experience

ISBN-13: 9780198242703 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 238 str.

Alan Millar

Opis

Millar argues against the tendency in current philosophical thought to treat sensory experiences as a peculiar species of propositional attitude. While allowing that experiences may in some sense bear propositional content, he presents a view of sensory experiences as a species of psychological state. A key theme in his general approach is that justified belief results from the competent exercise of conceptual capacities, some of which involve an ability to respond appropriately to current experience. In working out this approach the author develops a view of concepts and their mastery, explores the role of groundless beliefs drawing on suggestions of Wittgenstein, illuminates aspects of the thought of Locke, Hume, Quine, and Goldman, and finally offers a response to a sophisticated variety of scepticism.

Recenzje

i'This is a stimulating and carefully crafted book. It can be strongly recommended both to epistemolgoists and to philosophers of mind. ' The Philosophical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; Sensory experience; Reasons, justification, and evidence I; Reasons, Justification, and evidence II; Experience and justification; Cognitive capacities and justification; Groundless beliefs; Scepticism; Bibliography; Index