Precis of Perception and Reason
Philosophy And Phenomenological Research 63 (2):405-416 (2001)
| Abstract | What is the role of conscious perceptual experience in making thought about the mind- independent empirical world possible? What is the role of such experience in the acquisition of empirical knowledge, about the way things are in that world? What is the relation between these two roles? My central argument is intended to establish that a proper account of the way in which perceptual experience is essential to our grasp of determinate thoughts about particular things in the world around us will at the same time yield a full explanation of the fundamental role which such experience plays in the acquisition of empirical knowledge, by providing us with reasons, which we recognize as such, to endorse the most basic thoughts about mind-independent things in belief | |||||||||
| Keywords | Empiricism Epistemology Knowledge Perception Reason | |||||||||
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