Perception As A Capacity For Knowledge
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Perception As A Capacity For Knowledge
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Author : John Henry McDowell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Perception As A Capacity For Knowledge written by John Henry McDowell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.
This is the 2011 Aquinas Lecture delivered by John McDowell on February 27, 2011 at Marquette University. A central theme in much of Professor McDowell's work is the harmful effect, in modern philosophy and in the modern reception of pre-modern philosophy, of a conception of nature that reflects an understanding, in itself perfectly correct, of the proper goals of the natural sciences. He has argued that we can free ourselves from the characteristic sorts of philosophical anxiety by recalling the possibility of a less restrictive conception of what it takes for something to be natural.
Perception As A Capacity For Knowledge
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Author : John McDowell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Perception As A Capacity For Knowledge written by John McDowell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.
The idea of reparation OCo of amends owed for wrongs and wrongful harms OCo is ancient, universal, and a basic intuition of justice. Yet despite its ancient and distinguished lineage in Western philosophy, its familiar role in legal remedies for unjust losses and takings, and its increasing application to victims of political violence and repression, reparative justice has not received the wide consideration and sustained debate in contemporary thought that distributive and retributive justice have enjoyed.A fully developed conception of reparative justice would answer at least the following questions. Which injuries or harms trigger obligations of reparation? What kind of responsibility or relation to wrongs and harms entail obligations to make reparations? Who in relation to a wrong or harm has the standing to receive reparations? What vehicles (acts and goods offered) are capable of conveying appropriate and effective reparations? What is the measure of just reparations? What aim or end is sought, and what value or concern is at stake, in doing reparative justice?In this book, I make a start on the last three questions concerning the means, the ends, and the measure of reparative justice. I defend two fundamental and somewhat revisionary ideas about the nature of reparations and so about the kind of justice they represent. The first is that, despite its strong association with material restitution or money payments, reparations are inherently a communicative transaction. Reparative gestures and offers must bear a certain set of meanings that are communicated between those who make amends and those who receive them. The second idea explains the first: despite the association of reparative justice with wrongful loss and a remedy for it, and hence with restitution or compensation, the more fundamental issue in reparations, I argue, is the moral vulnerability of victims of serious wrongs. Specifically, it is vulnerability to being ignored, erased, or held in contempt when one lacks the standing to call others to an accounting of their responsibilities where one is unjustly treated. Reparative justice requires that moral vulnerability be confronted and that the standing of injured parties to call others to responsibility be affirmed. Moral vulnerability explains why material tenders or transfers are often but not always necessary, and why they do not alone suffice for reparations.CULLED FROM THE AUTHORS INTRODUCTION"
Towards A Theory Of Epistemically Significant Perception
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Author : Nadja El Kassar
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-09-25
Towards A Theory Of Epistemically Significant Perception written by Nadja El Kassar and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-25 with Philosophy categories.
How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable about the world? In this book Nadja El Kassar argues that an informed answer requires a novel theory of perception: perceptual experience involves conceptual capacities and consists in a relation between a perceiver and the world. Contemporary theories of perception disagree about the role of content and conceptual capacities in perceptual experience. In her analysis El Kassar scrutinizes the arguments of conceptualist and relationist theories, thereby exposing their limitations for explaining the epistemic role of perceptual experience. Against this background she develops her novel theory of epistemically significant perception. Her theory improves on current accounts by encompassing both the epistemic role of perceptual experiences and its perceptual character. Central claims of her theory receive additional support from work in vision science, making this book an original contribution to the philosophy of perception.
Sources Of Knowledge
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Author : Andrea Kern
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-02
Sources Of Knowledge written by Andrea Kern and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with Philosophy categories.
How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge, since the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong? Andrea Kern argues that we can disarm this skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a rational capacity. In this book, she develops a metaphysics of the mind as existing through knowledge of itself.
Knowledge Perception And Memory
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Author : C. Ginet
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Knowledge Perception And Memory written by C. Ginet and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
In this book I present what seem to me (at the moment) to be right an swers to some of the main philosophical questions about the topics men tioned in the title, and I argue for them where I can. I hope that what I say may be of interest both to those who have already studied these ques tions a lot and to those who haven't. There are several important topics in epistemology to which I give little or no attention here - such as the nature of a proposition, the major classifications of propositions (neces sary and contingent, a priori and a posteriori, analytic and synthetic, general and particular), the nature of understanding a proposition, the nature of truth, the nature and justification of the various kinds of in ference (deductive, inductive, and probably others) -but enough is cover ed, to one degree or another, that the book might be of use in a course in epistemology. Earlier versions of some of the material in Chapters II, III, and IV were some of the material in Ginet (1970). An earlier version of the part of Chapter VII on memory-connection was a paper that I profited from reading and discussing in philosophy discussion groups at Cornell Uni versity, SUNY at Albany, and Syracuse University in 1972-73. I do not like to admit how long I have been working on this book.
Perceptual Knowledge And Self Awareness
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-10-04
Perceptual Knowledge And Self Awareness written by and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-04 with Philosophy categories.
There is a tendency, in contemporary epistemology, to treat 'perceptual knowledge' and 'self-knowledge' as labels for different and largely unconnected sets of philosophical problems. The project of this volume is to bring out how much is to be gained from treating the two topics as, on the contrary, intimately connected. One set of questions that comes into view when we do concerns the sense in which perceptual knowledge, as understood from the first-person perspective, seem to be 'direct'. In a famous passage, Austin contrasted reliance on what we call 'evidence' with the way perceptual experience 'settles' questions. How should we understand the difference? In what sense is perceptual knowledge 'direct', in contradistinction to evidence-based, inferential knowledge? A connected set of issues has to do with the relationship between the epistemic authority of perception and self-consciousness. Is the way perceptual experience 'settles' questions inherently manifest to the perceiver? Is a perceiver's awareness of (e.g.) seeing that p to be explained by reference to the very capacities at work in seeing that p? Or does it reflect the operation of some kind of second-order perceptual capacity? Consideration of these matters, in turn, prompts questions about the nature of the first-person perspective. 'I can see that p' is a first-person self-ascription. But does it express the distinctively immediate kind of knowledge commonly labelled first-person self-knowledge? How would an affirmative answer to this question bear on a philosophical understanding of the 'first-person perspective'? These are rough indications of some of the ways in which reflection on the relationship between perceptual knowledge and self-awareness promises to shed valuable light on both topics.
Aquinas S Theory Of Perception
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Author : Anthony J. Lisska
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Aquinas S Theory Of Perception written by Anthony J. Lisska and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy categories.
Anthony J. Lisska presents a new analysis of Thomas Aquinas's theory of perception. Approaching the subject from contemporary analytic philosophy, Lisska argues for the importance of inner sense, and suggests a modest 'innate' or 'structured' interpretation for the role of the crucial faculty of vis cogitativa.
Empirical Reason And Sensory Experience
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Author : Miloš Vuletić
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-05-27
Empirical Reason And Sensory Experience written by Miloš Vuletić and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-27 with Philosophy categories.
The volume offers a lively and wide-ranging debate on the major questions of perceptual epistemology, including how perceptual experiences can bestow positive epistemic standing to empirical judgments and beliefs; the relative epistemic import of veridical and non-veridical perceptual experiences; the relation between experience and knowledge; and the nature of experience in view of its epistemic linkages to discursive contents. The volume is centered around five cutting-edge essays by leading authors in these areas—Anil Gupta, Andrea Kern, Christopher Peacocke, Susanna Schellenberg and Crispin Wright—along with no less than thirty contributions scrutinizing and critically discussing the essays, prompting detailed rejoinders from the lead authors. The volume closes with an extensive debate between Annalisa Coliva, Gupta and Wright. Taken as a whole, the volume covers much ground in epistemology of perception and displays a variety of approaches and perspectives through fruitful and accessible exchanges. It will be of interest not only to researchers working in perceptual epistemology but also to students new to the subject.
Reason In Nature
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Author : Matthew Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-06
Reason In Nature written by Matthew Boyle and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
Against the dominant view of reductive naturalism, John McDowell argues that human life should be seen as transformed by reason so that human minds, while not supernatural, are sui generis. This collection assembles eleven critical essays that highlight the enduring significance and wide ramifications of McDowell’s unorthodox position.
The Logical Alien
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Author : Sofia Miguens
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-14
The Logical Alien written by Sofia Miguens and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with Philosophy categories.
Is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such? From Kant to Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question. This volume brings together nine distinguished thinkers on the subject, including James Conant, author of the seminal paper “The Search for Logically Alien Thought.”