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Perception and Its Objects.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191511622
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Perception and Its ObjectsDDC classification:
  • 121.34
LOC classification:
  • B828.45.B74 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Inconsistent Triad -- 2. Anti-Realism -- 2.1 Berkeley's options -- 2.2 Three more modern metaphysical views -- 2.3 Empirical realism -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3. Indirect Realism -- 3.1 Preliminary concerns -- 3.2 The objection -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 4. The Content View -- 4.1 Illusion, hallucination, and content -- 4.2 The possibility of falsehood -- 4.3 The generality of predication -- 5. The Object View -- 5.1 Presentation -- 5.2 Illusion and hallucination -- 5.3 Looks -- 6. Epistemology -- 6.1 The myth of the given -- 6.2 Empirical knowledge -- 6.3 Epistemic priority -- 6.4 Perception and reason -- 7. Realism and Explanation -- 7.1 Explanation, realism, and scientific-physics -- 7.2 Explanation, realism, and commonsense physics -- 7.3 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Bill Brewer presents a bold new answer to a fundamental question of philosophy: what is the nature of our perceptual relation with objects in the world? His account of perceptual experience captures the fact that physical objects are both the very things that are subjectively presented in perception, and also entirely independent of experience.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Inconsistent Triad -- 2. Anti-Realism -- 2.1 Berkeley's options -- 2.2 Three more modern metaphysical views -- 2.3 Empirical realism -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3. Indirect Realism -- 3.1 Preliminary concerns -- 3.2 The objection -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 4. The Content View -- 4.1 Illusion, hallucination, and content -- 4.2 The possibility of falsehood -- 4.3 The generality of predication -- 5. The Object View -- 5.1 Presentation -- 5.2 Illusion and hallucination -- 5.3 Looks -- 6. Epistemology -- 6.1 The myth of the given -- 6.2 Empirical knowledge -- 6.3 Epistemic priority -- 6.4 Perception and reason -- 7. Realism and Explanation -- 7.1 Explanation, realism, and scientific-physics -- 7.2 Explanation, realism, and commonsense physics -- 7.3 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Bill Brewer presents a bold new answer to a fundamental question of philosophy: what is the nature of our perceptual relation with objects in the world? His account of perceptual experience captures the fact that physical objects are both the very things that are subjectively presented in perception, and also entirely independent of experience.

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