Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
Skepticism and the Veil of Perception

Author: Michael Huemer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780742512535

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In opposition to both skeptics and representationalists, Huemer (philosophy, U. of Colorado, Boulder) presents a theory of perceptual awareness, according to which perception gives us direct awareness of real objects and non-inferential knowledge of the properties of these objects. He responds to the major arguments for skepticism, including the infinite regress argument, the problem of the criterion, the brain in the vat, and the impossibility of verification. c. Book News Inc.

Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
Skepticism and the Veil of Perception

Author: Michael Huemer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2001-07-17

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1461642337

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Since Descartes, one of the central questions of Western philosophy has been that of how we know that the objects we seem to perceive are real. Philosophical skeptics claim that we know no such thing. Representationalists claim that we can gain such knowledge only by inference, by showing that the hypothesis of a real world is the best explanation for the kind of sensations and mental images we experience. Both accept the doctrine of a 'veil of perception:' that perception can only give us direct awareness of images or representations of objects, not the external objects themselves. In contrast, Huemer develops a theory of perceptual awareness in which perception gives us direct awareness of real objects, not mental representations, and we have non-inferential knowledge of the properties of these objects. Further, Huemer confronts the four main arguments for philosophical skepticism, showing that they are powerless against this kind of theory of perceptual knowledge.

Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
Skepticism and the Veil of Perception

Author: Michael Huemer

Publisher: Studies in Social, Political

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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This book develops and defends a version of direct realism: the thesis that perception gives us direct awareness, and non-inferential knowledge, of the external world. Huemer rebuts the main arguments used by philosophical skeptics to try to show that we cannot know anything about the world outside of the mind, as well as the arguments used by representationalists to try to show that we only perceive representations of external objects.

Kant and Skepticism
Kant and Skepticism

Author: Michael N. Forster

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780691129877

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Presents a reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the "Critique of Pure Reason". This book argues that Kant undertook his reform of metaphysics primarily in order to render it defensible against these types of skepticism.

Phenomenal Qualities
Phenomenal Qualities

Author: Paul Coates

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0198712715

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A team of distinguished philosophers and psychologists explore the nature of phenomenal qualities, the qualities of conscious experiences, and the ways in which they fit in with our understanding of mind and reality. This volume offers an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to understand the nature of conscious experience.

Righting Epistemology
Righting Epistemology

Author: Bredo Johnsen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0190662778

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Righting Epistemology defends an unrecognized Humean conception of epistemic justification, showing that he is no skeptic, and an argument of his that refutes all extant alternative conceptions. It goes on to trace the development of his thought in Sir Karl Popper, Nelson Goodman, W. V. Quine and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception

Author: Mohan Matthen

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 945

ISBN-13: 0199600473

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The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception. It includes sections on the history of the subject, introductions to contemporary issues in the epistemology, ontology and aesthetics of perception, treatments of the individual sense modalities and of the things we perceive by means of them, and a consideration of how perceptual information is integrated and consolidated. New analytic tools and applications to other areas of philosophy are discussed in depth. Each of the forty-five entries is written by a leading expert, some collaborating with younger figures; each seeks to introduce the reader to a broad range of issues. All contain new ideas on the topics covered; together they demonstrate the vigour and innovative zeal of a young field. The book is accessible to anybody who has an intellectual interest in issues concerning perception.

Varieties of Skepticism
Varieties of Skepticism

Author: James Conant

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 3110369710

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This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past of couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered — above all, in the work of those who have sought to take their cue from Kant, Wittgenstein, or Cavell — and to illuminate how these philosophical approaches are related to and bear upon one another. The philosophers brought together in this volume are united by the thought that a proper appreciation of the depth of the skeptical challenge must reveal it to be deeply disquieting, in the sense that skepticism threatens not just some set of theoretical commitments, but also-and fundamentally-our very sense of self, world, and other. Second, that skepticism is the proper starting point for any serious attempt to make sense of what philosophy is, and to gauge the prospects of philosophical progress.