In the Light of Experience: New Essays on Perception and Reasons First Edition, First Printin Johan Gersel

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198809638
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198809630
• Author(s): Johan Gersel ; Rasmus Thybo Jensen ; Morten S. Thaning ; Søren Overgaard

How does the idea that perception must provide reasons for our empirical judgements constrain our conception of our perceptual experiences? This volume presents eleven new essays on perception which in different ways address this fundamental question. Charles Travis and John McDowell debate whether we need to ascribe content to experience in order to understand how it can provide the subject with reasons. Other essays address issues such as the following: What exactly is the Myth of the Given and why should it be worthwhile to try to avoid it? What constitutes our experiential reasons? Is it experiences themselves, the objects of experiences, or facts about our experiences? Should we conceive of experiential reasons as conclusive reasons? How should we conceive of the fallibility of our perceptual capacities if we think of experiences as capable of providing conclusive reasons? How should we conceive of the objects of experience? The contributors offer a variety of views on the reason-giving potential of experience, engaging explicitly and critically with each other’s work.

Table contents:

Introduction, Johan Gersel and Rasmus Thybo Jensen
The Travis-McDowell Debate, Johan Gersel
Part I: The Myth of the Given
1:Travis on Frege, Kant, and the Given. Comments on ‘Unlocking the Outer World’, John McDowell
2:The Move, the Divide, the Myth and its Dogma, Charles Travis
3:What is the Myth of the Given?, Johan Gersel
4:Empiricism and Normative Constraint, Hannah Ginsborg
Part II: The Epistemology of Empirical Knowledge
5:Do Perceptions Justify Beliefs? The Argument from ‘Looks’ Talk, Christopher Gauker
6:Fallibility for Infallibilists, Jason Leddington
Part III: The Nature of Experience
7:Perception and the Vagaries of Experience, Alan Millar
8:World in Mind: Extending Phenomenal Character and Resisting Skepticism, Heather Logue
Part IV: The Object of Experience
9:Objects and the Explanation of Perception, Bill Brewer
10:Are Perceptual Reasons the Objects of Perception?, J. J. Cunningham

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