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Perception and Its Objects
Perception and Its Objects
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Bill Brewer presents, motivates, and defends a bold new solution to a fundamental problem in the philosophy of perception. What is the correct theoretical conception of perceptual experience, and how should we best understand the most fundamental nature of our perceptual relation with the
physical objects in the world around us? Most theorists today analyse perception in terms of its representational content, in large part in order to avoid fatal problems attending the early modern conception of perception as a relation with particular mind-dependent objects of experience. Having set
up the underlying problem and explored the lessons to be learnt from the various difficulties faced by opposing early modern responses to it, Bill Brewer argues that this contemporary approach has serious problems of its own. Furthermore, the early modern insight that perception is most
fundamentally to be construed as a relation of conscious acquaintance with certain direct objects of experience is, he claims, perfectly consistent with the commonsense identification of such direct objects with persisting mind-independent physical objects themselves. Brewer here provides a
critical, historical account of the philosophy of perception, in order to present a defensible vindication of empirical realism.
Author: Bill Brewer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/22/2013
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780199674695
physical objects in the world around us? Most theorists today analyse perception in terms of its representational content, in large part in order to avoid fatal problems attending the early modern conception of perception as a relation with particular mind-dependent objects of experience. Having set
up the underlying problem and explored the lessons to be learnt from the various difficulties faced by opposing early modern responses to it, Bill Brewer argues that this contemporary approach has serious problems of its own. Furthermore, the early modern insight that perception is most
fundamentally to be construed as a relation of conscious acquaintance with certain direct objects of experience is, he claims, perfectly consistent with the commonsense identification of such direct objects with persisting mind-independent physical objects themselves. Brewer here provides a
critical, historical account of the philosophy of perception, in order to present a defensible vindication of empirical realism.
Author: Bill Brewer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/22/2013
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780199674695
About the Author
Bill Brewer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Previously he taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Brown University and Berkeley. He is the author of Perception and Reason (OUP, 1999) and an editor of Spatial Representation (OUP, 1999), and has published many papers and journal articles on philosophy of mind and action, metaphysics and epistemology.
