Perception - Hardcover

Maund, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1902683595 ISBN 13: 9781902683591

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

The philosophical issues raised by perception make it one of the central topics in the philosophical tradition. Debate about the nature of perceptual knowledge and the objects of perception comprises a thread that runs through the history of philosophy. In some historical periods the major issues have been predominantly epistemological and related to scepticism, but an adequate understanding of perception is important more widely, especially for metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. For this reason Barry Maund provides an account of the major issues in the philosophy of perception that highlights the importance of a good theory of perception in a range of philosophical fields, while also seeking to be sensitive to the historical dimension of the subject. The work presents chapters on forms of natural realism; theories of perceptual experience; representationalism; the argument from illusion; phenomenological senses; types of perceptual content; the representationalist/intentionalist thesis; and adverbialist accounts of perceptual experience. The ideas of, among others, Austin, Dretske, Heidegger, Millikan, Putnam and Robinson are considered and the reader is given a philosophical framework within which to consider the issues.

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Barry Maund

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1902683595
• ISBN 13: 9781902683591
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192