Alan Millar (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of

Knowing by Perceiving

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Alan Miller offers a focused account of perceptual knowledge, the knowledge that we gain by means of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting. He explains perceptual knowledge in terms of general recognitional abilities, then situates that account within a broader perspective on epistemology and philosophical method more generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780198755692
• ISBN-10: 0198755694
• Artikelnr.: 55470702

Autorenporträt

Alan Millar studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and then received a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was appointed to a Lectureship at Stirling in 1971 and was made Professor in 1994; he is now an Emeritus Professor at the University of Stirling. In 2005 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy. He has served on the Executive Committees of the Aristotelian Society and the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and he was President of the Mind Association from 2014 until 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Epistemology and Philosophical Method
2: Justified Belief, Reasons, and Evidence
3: Perception, Experience, and Direct Realism
4: Perceptual Knowledge and Recognitional Abilities
5: Perception and the Justification of Belief
6: Abilities, Competences and Fallibility
7: Abilities: Further issues
8: Knowledge from Perceived Indicators and Background Knowledge
9: Going By What We Know