Perception and Reason

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Contents......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
PART I. PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES PROVIDE REASONS......Page 20
1 Historical–Epistemological Context......Page 22
2 Belief and Experience......Page 37
2.1 Preliminaries......Page 38
2.2 The Strawson Argument......Page 44
2.3 Refinements......Page 48
3 Experience and Reason......Page 68
3.1 The Switching Argument......Page 69
3.2 Knowledge by Description......Page 79
3.3 Conceptual Redeployment......Page 82
3.4 Natural Kinds and Proper Names......Page 86
3.5 Are There Unitary Concepts of Mind-Independent Things?......Page 105
4.1 Reliabilism......Page 111
4.2 Classical Foundationalism......Page 131
4.3 Classical Coherentism......Page 148
4.4 Conclusion......Page 163
PART II. THE RATIONAL ROLE OF PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES......Page 166
5 Reasons Require Conceptual Contents......Page 168
5.1 The Basic Argument......Page 169
5.2 Possible Counterexamples......Page 171
5.3 Non-Conceptual Experiential Content Is Unmotivated......Page 188
6 The Rational Role of Perceptual Experiences......Page 203
6.1 Objective Demonstratives......Page 205
6.2 Epistemic Openness......Page 222
6.3 Clarifications......Page 226
7.1 Foundationalism and Coherentism......Page 235
7.2 Imagination......Page 242
7.3 Error and Scepticism......Page 246
7.4 Further Objections......Page 255
8.1 Non-Demonstrative Perceptual Knowledge......Page 261
8.2 Russell's Principle of Acquaintance......Page 270
8.3 Externalism and A Priori Knowledge......Page 281
Bibliography......Page 288
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G......Page 297
N......Page 298
R......Page 299
W......Page 300