Towards a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception

How We Relate to the World

Nadja El Kassar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2017
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-057827-0 (ISBN)

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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 theories of perception disagree about the role of content and conceptual capacities in perceptual experience. In her analysis El Kassar scrutinizes the arguments of conceptualist and relationist theories, thereby exposing their limitations for explaining the epistemic role of perceptual experience. Against this background she develops her novel theory of epistemically significant perception. Her theory improves on current accounts by encompassing both the epistemic role of perceptual experiences and its perceptual character. Central claims of her theory receive additional support from work in vision science, making this book an original contribution to the philosophy of perception.

Nadja El Kassar, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Ideen & Argumente
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	230 x 155 mm
Gewicht	622 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	conceptualism • Konzeptualismus • McDowell, John • Paperback Project • perception • relationism • Relationismus • Wahrnehmung
ISBN-10	3-11-057827-1 / 3110578271
ISBN-13	978-3-11-057827-0 / 9783110578270
Zustand	Neuware