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Towards a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception: How We Relate to the World (Ideen & Argumente) - Hardcover

El Kassar, Nadja

 
9783110445213: Towards a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception: How We Relate to the World (Ideen & Argumente)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3110445212 ISBN 13: 9783110445213
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable about the world? In this book Nadja El Kassar argues that an informed answer requires a novel theory of perception: perceptual experience involves conceptual capacities and consists in a relation between a perceiver and the world.
Contemporary theories of perception disagree about the role of content and conceptual capacities in perceptual experience. In her analysis El Kassar scrutinizes the arguments of conceptualist and relationist theories, thereby exposing their limitations for explaining the epistemic role of perceptual experience. Against this background she develops her novel theory of epistemically significant perception. Her theory improves on current accounts by encompassing both the epistemic role of perceptual experiences and its perceptual character. Central claims of her theory receive additional support from work in vision science, making this book an original contribution to the philosophy of perception.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nadja El Kassar, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

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“When I perceive the large tower, it is directly present to me as alarge tower. I see it as a large tower. Of course, I can also seethe tower as a building with a colorful roof, or simply as a building.But I always see it as something. If I did not perceive it as something,I would not perceive it at all.”How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable? This bookargues that the answer lies in the nature of perceptual experience:this experience involves conceptual capacities and is a relationbetween perceiver and world. The author develops her position viaa critical examination of conceptualist and relationist theories ofperception. A discussion of recent work in vision science rounds upthis contribution to the philosophy of perception.

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Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3110445212
ISBN 13 
9783110445213
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
374
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