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Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: how does our sensory experience enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? This book is a debate between two rival approaches to understanding the relationship between concepts and sensory experience.
Sommario
- Preface
- 1: John Campbell: The Historical Background
- 2: John Campbell: A Straightforward Solution to Berkeley's Puzzle
- 3: John Campbell: Experiencing Objects as Mind-Independent
- 4: John Campbell: The Role of Sensory Experience in Propositional Knowledge
- 5: Quassim Cassam: Berkeley's Puzzle
- 6: Quassim Cassam: Experientialism
- 7: Quassim Cassam: The Relational View of Experience
- 8: Quassim Cassam: Representationalism
- Campbell's Epilogue
- Cassam's Epilogue
- References
- Index
Info autore
Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He was previously Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, Professor of Philosophy at University College London, and also taught for many years at Oxford University. He is the author of Self and World (1997) and The Possibility of Knowledge (2007), both published by Oxford University Press.
John Campbell is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Before that he was Wilde Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Past, Space and Self (MIT, 1994) and Reference and Consciousness (OUP, 2002).
Riassunto
Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: how does our sensory experience enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? This book is a debate between two rival approaches to understanding the relationship between concepts and sensory experience.
Testo aggiuntivo
Though there are many excellent discussions of relationalism and representationalism, I am unaware of any that is superior to this joint effort... Its discussions are guided by genuine insight about which philosophical questions are valuable to engage and their responses to these questions involve an unusually high clarity of thought and attention to detail. The result surpasses what either author would have achieved independently and should serve as a useful model for other philosophers to emulate.
