Overview
- Presents a specific focus on perceptual justification
- Takes a new approach to epistemological theories of perception
- Clarifies ongoing debates in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of perception
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 377)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporary theories of perceptual justification that each highlight different factors related to perception, i.e., conscious experience, higher-order beliefs, and reliable processes. The book’s discussion starts from the viewpoint that perception is not only one of our fundamental sources of knowledge and justification, but also plays this role for many less sophisticated animals. It proposes a scientifically informed reliabilist theory which can accommodate this fact without denying that some of our epistemic abilities as human perceivers are special. This allows it to combine many of our intuitions about the importance of conscious experience and higher-order belief with the controversial thesis that perceptual justification is fundamentally non-evidential in character.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Harmen Ghijsen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven and a member of the Leuven Epistemology Group. His area of research is located at the intersection of philosophy of mind and epistemology and focuses on integrating epistemological theories with our actual cognitive architecture. He has published numerous articles related to this research, with perceptual justification as one of his favorite topics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Puzzle of Perceptual Justification
Book Subtitle: Conscious experience, Higher-order Beliefs, and Reliable Processes
Authors: Harmen Ghijsen
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30500-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30498-4Published: 03 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80826-0Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30500-4Published: 22 April 2016
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 165
Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science