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List of contents
- Introduction: The Recent Renaissance of Acquaintance
- Part I: Phenomenal Consciousness
- 1: Joseph Levine: Consciousness is Acquaintance
- 2: Sam Coleman: Natural Acquaintance
- 3: Alex Grzankowski and Michael Tye: What Acquaintance Teaches
- 4: M. G. F. Martin: Betwixt Feeling and Thinking: Two-Level Accounts of Experience
- Part II: Perceptual Experience
- 5: David Woodruff Smith: Acquaintance in an Experience of Perception-cum-Action
- 6: Tom Stoneham: Dreaming, Phenomenal Character and Acquaintance
- 7: Jonathan Knowles: Relationalism, Berkeley's Puzzle and Phenomenological Externalism
- 8: Anders Nes: Conceptualism and the Explanatory Role of Experience
- Part III: Reference
- 9: John Campbell: Acquaintance as Grounded in Joint Attention
- 10: Jessica Pepp: Principles of Acquaintance
- Part IV: Epistemology
- 11: Richard Fumerton: Acquaintance: The Foundation of Knowledge and Thought
- 12: Katalin Farkas: Objectual Knowledge
- 13: Bill Brewer: Visual Experience, Revelation and the Three Rs
About the author
Jonathan Knowles is Professor of Philosophy at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He has published books and papers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and pragmatism. He is particularly interested in questions about consciousness, naturalism, representation, and realism.
Thomas Raleigh is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp. He has previously held positions at the Ruhr University Bochum, the University of Vienna, the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Concordia University, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research is primarily in philosophy of mind and epistemology.
Summary
This volume showcases fourteen essays, written by leading experts on the notion of acquaintance, which span philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language. Together they present the main issues and debates that surround the concept and explore such related topics as phenomenal consciousness, perceptual experience, and reference.
