Perception and Knowledge - A Phenomenological Account

This book provides an original and provocative account of the nature of perception and its role in the production of knowledge.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Content; 2. Experiential conceptualism; 3. Conceptualism and knowledge; 4. Against experiential conceptualism; 5. Conceptual and nonconceptual content; 6. The contents of perception; 7. To the things themselves; Bibliography.

About the author

Walter Hopp is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He has published articles in numerous journals including the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, the European Journal of Philosophy and Husserl Studies.

Summary

This book argues that perceptual experiences do not have conceptual content, and that what makes them play such a distinctive epistemic role is something that sets them radically apart from beliefs. It covers a wide range of central topics in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology and traditional phenomenology.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Hopp, Walter (Boston University) Hopp, Hopp Walter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2013
• EAN: 9781107646988
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64698-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge