Motivation and the Primacy of Perception

Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Knowledge

Peter Antich (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2021
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2432-2 (ISBN)

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Bridging phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, Peter Antich asserts that the latter has long been hampered by an inadequate phenomenology of knowledge. However, a careful description of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenon of motivation can offer compelling new ways to think about knowledge and longstanding epistemological questions.

Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological notion of motivation advances a compelling alternative to the empiricist and rationalist assumptions that underpin modern epistemology.

Arguing that knowledge is ultimately founded in perceptual experience, Peter Antich interprets and defends Merleau-Ponty’s thinking on motivation as the key to establishing a new form of epistemic grounding. Upending the classical dichotomy between reason and natural causality, justification and explanation, Antich shows how this epistemic ground enables Merleau-Ponty to offer a radically new account of knowledge and its relation to perception. In so doing, Antich demonstrates how and why Merleau-Ponty remains a vital resource for today’s epistemologists.

Peter Antich is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His publications include “Merleau-Ponty on Hallucination and Perceptual Faith,” in Études Phénoménologiques – Phenomenological Studies, “Perceptual Experience in Kant and Merleau-Ponty,” in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, and “Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Concept Formation,” in the History of Philosophy Quarterly.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I. Defining the Account

1 Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Motivation

2 The Primacy of Perception

Part II. Defending the Account

3 Empirical Judgments

4 Universal and A Priori Judgments

5 Perceptual Faith

Part III. Motivation and Pure Reason

6 Transcendental Justification

7 Metaphysical Judgments and Self-Consciousness

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Series in Continental Thought
Verlagsort	Athens
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-8214-2432-7 / 0821424327
ISBN-13	978-0-8214-2432-2 / 9780821424322
Zustand	Neuware