Perception and Reason

by Bill Brewer

Book Overview

Bill Brewer presents an original view of the role of conscious experience in the acquisition of empirical knowledge. He argues that perceptual experiences must provide reasons for empirical beliefs if there are to be any determinate beliefs at all about particular objects in the world. This fresh approach to epistemology turns away from the search for necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge and works instead from a theory of understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199250456
• ISBN13: 9780199250455
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"