Towards a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception : : How We Relate to the World /

Towards a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception : : How We Relate to the World / / Nadja El Kassar.

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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 the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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El Kassar, Nadja,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Ideen & Argumente ,
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Physical Description:1 online resource (363 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I Conceptualism
  • 1 Introducing Conceptualism
  • 2 Examining Non-Conceptualist Arguments against Conceptualism
  • 3 Examining McDowell’s Revised Conceptualism
  • Part II Relationism
  • 4 Relationism: Perception as Conscious Acquaintance
  • 5 Relationism as Anti-Representationalism
  • 6 Why McDowell’s Revised Conceptualism Does Not Avoid Travis’s Anti-Representationalist Criticism
  • Part III Relational Conceptualism
  • 7 Relational Conceptualism: a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception
  • 8 Possible Objections against Relational Conceptualism
  • Part IV. Relational Conceptualism and Empirical Science
  • 9 Broadening the Scope of Relational Conceptualism
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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