Knowing by Perceiving
Title | Knowing by Perceiving PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Millar |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Perception |
ISBN | 9780191816840 |
Alan Miller offers a focused account of perceptual knowledge, the knowledge that we gain by means of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting. He explains perceptual knowledge in terms of general recognitional abilities, then situates that account within a broader perspective on epistemology and philosophical method more generally.
Perceiving, Sensing, and Knowing
Title | Perceiving, Sensing, and Knowing PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Swartz |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2022-05-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0520361199 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Knowing by Perceiving
Title | Knowing by Perceiving PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Millar |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2019-01-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191072311 |
Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be justified. With the retreat from knowledge to justified belief there is also a retreat from perception to the sensory experiences implicated by perception. On the most widely held approach, perception drops out of the picture other than as the means by which we are furnished with the experiences that are supposed to be the real source of justification-experiences that are conceived to be no different in kind from those we could have had if we had been perfectly hallucinating. In this book a radically different perspective is developed, one that explicates perceptual knowledge in terms of recognitional abilities and perceptual justification in terms of perceptually known truths as to what we perceive to be so. Contrary to mainstream epistemological tradition, justified belief is regarded as belief founded on known truths. The treatment of perceptual knowledge is situated within a broader conception of epistemology and philosophical method. Attention is paid to contested conceptions of perceptual experience, to knowledge from perceived indicators, and to the standing of background presuppositions and knowledge that inform our thinking. Throughout, the discussion is sensitive to ways in which key concepts figure in ordinary thinking while remaining resolutely focused on what knowledge is, and not just on how we think of it.
Perceiving, Acting and Knowing
Title | Perceiving, Acting and Knowing PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Shaw |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 515 |
Release | 2017-03-27 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1315467917 |
Originally published in 1977, the chapters in this volume derive from a conference on Perceiving, Acting and Knowing held by the Center for Research in Human Learning at the University of Minnesota in 1973. The volume was intended to appeal, not just to the specialist or the novice, but to anyone sufficiently interested in psychology to have obtained a sense of its history at the time. Through these essays the authors express a collective attitude that a careful scrutiny of the fundamental tenets of contemporary psychology may be needed. In some essays specific faults in the foundations of an area are discussed, and suggestions are made for remedying them. In other essays the authors flirt with more radical solutions, namely, beginning from new foundations altogether. Although the authors do not present a monolithic viewpoint, a careful reading of all their essays under one cover reveals a glimpse of a new framework by which theory and research may be guided.
Knowing by Perceiving
Title | Knowing by Perceiving PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Millar |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2019-01-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 019107232X |
Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be justified. With the retreat from knowledge to justified belief there is also a retreat from perception to the sensory experiences implicated by perception. On the most widely held approach, perception drops out of the picture other than as the means by which we are furnished with the experiences that are supposed to be the real source of justification-experiences that are conceived to be no different in kind from those we could have had if we had been perfectly hallucinating. In this book a radically different perspective is developed, one that explicates perceptual knowledge in terms of recognitional abilities and perceptual justification in terms of perceptually known truths as to what we perceive to be so. Contrary to mainstream epistemological tradition, justified belief is regarded as belief founded on known truths. The treatment of perceptual knowledge is situated within a broader conception of epistemology and philosophical method. Attention is paid to contested conceptions of perceptual experience, to knowledge from perceived indicators, and to the standing of background presuppositions and knowledge that inform our thinking. Throughout, the discussion is sensitive to ways in which key concepts figure in ordinary thinking while remaining resolutely focused on what knowledge is, and not just on how we think of it.
Seeing, Doing, and Knowing
Title | Seeing, Doing, and Knowing PDF eBook |
Author | Mohan Matthen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199204284 |
"This book is a philosophical treatment of sense perception and examines the work of cognitive neuroscientists. Its central theme is the task-oriented specialization of sensory systems across the biological domain. This text includes theories of perceptual similarity, content, and realism"--Provided by publisher.
Perceiving, Sensing and Knowing
Title | Perceiving, Sensing and Knowing PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780520029866 |