Perception and Knowledge: A Phenomenological AccountThis book offers a provocative, clear and rigorously argued account of the nature of perception and its role in the production of knowledge. Walter Hopp argues that perceptual experiences do not have conceptual content, and that what makes them play a distinctive epistemic role is not the features which they share with beliefs, but something that in fact sets them radically apart. He explains that the reason-giving relation between experiences and beliefs is what Edmund Husserl called 'fulfilment' - in which we find something to be as we think it to be. His book covers a wide range of central topics in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology and traditional phenomenology. It is essential reading for contemporary analytic philosophers of mind and phenomenologists alike. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Experiential conceptualism | 37 |
Chapter 3 Conceptualism and knowledge | 81 |
Chapter 4 Against experiential conceptualism | 103 |
Chapter 5 Conceptual and nonconceptual content | 130 |
Chapter 6 The contents of perception | 149 |
Chapter 7 To the things themselves | 190 |
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A. D. Smith A’s manifold ability actually affairs argue argument aware ball barn Brewer characterize cichlid claim cognitive coherentism color concept authenticity conceptual content consciousness constituents demonstrative contents determinate disjunctivism distinction distinguish Eiffel Tower emptily empty intentions endorse enological entail entertain epistemic fulfillment epistemic status evidence exist experiential conceptualism explain fact false Fregean senses given grasp hallucination hand horizonal contents Husserliana idea identical image-consciousness imagine indirect realism instance instantiated intentional content intentional object intentionality intuitive character judgment justify beliefs knowledge matter McDowell means mental acts merely think Mount Everest nonconceptual content one’s perceptual acts perceptual experience perceptually appears phenomenal phenomenological physical objects plausible possess the concept possible precisely presents the world properties propositional content qualia rationally intelligible reference relational view Rudolph sensations sense datum sentence someone sort of content sortal suppose synthesis theory things Timmy tree true veridical perception virtue WALTER HOPP