Motivation and the Primacy of Perception (eBook)

Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Knowledge

Peter Antich (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
264 Seiten
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-4724-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Series in Continental Thought
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Disjunctivism • Emmanuel Kant • Empiricism • Knowledge • Maurice Merleau-Ponty • Motivation • natural causality • perception • reason • skepticism • Transcendental idealism
• ISBN-10: 0-8214-4724-6 / 0821447246
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-4724-6 / 9780821447246