This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporary
theories of perceptual justification that each highlight different factors
related to perception, i.e., conscious experience, higher-order beliefs, and
reliable processes. The book’s discussion starts from the viewpoint that
perception is not only one of our fundamental sources of knowledge and
justification, but also plays this role for many less sophisticated animals. It
proposes a scientifically informed reliabilist theory which can accommodate this
fact without denying that some of our epistemic abilities as human perceivers
are special. This allows it to combine many of our intuitions about the
importance of conscious experience and higher-order belief with the
controversial thesis that perceptual justification is fundamentally
non-evidential in character.
- ISBN: 978-3-319-30498-4
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés