Berkeley's Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us?

by John Campbell, Quassim Cassam, John Campbell

Book Overview

Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge and conception of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: even if the things we experience (apples, tables, trees, etc), are mind-independent how does our sensory experience of them enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? George Berkeley thought that sensory experience can only provide us with the conception of mind-dependent things, things which cannot...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198716257
• ISBN13: 9780198716259
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"