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Conscious Experience - A Logical Inquiry (Hardcover)
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Conscious Experience - A Logical Inquiry (Hardcover)
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A distinguished philosopher offers a novel account of experience
and reason, and develops our understanding of conscious experience
and its relationship to thought: a new reformed empiricism. The
role of experience in cognition is a central and ancient
philosophical concern. How, theorists ask, can our private
experiences guide us to knowledge of a mind-independent reality?
Exploring topics in logic, philosophy of mind, and epistemology,
Conscious Experience proposes a new answer to this age-old
question, explaining how conscious experience contributes to the
rationality and content of empirical beliefs. According to Anil
Gupta, this contribution cannot be determined independently of an
agent's conceptual scheme and prior beliefs, but that doesn't mean
it is entirely mind-dependent. While the rational contribution of
an experience is not propositional-it does not, for example,
provide direct knowledge of the world-it does authorize certain
transitions from prior views to new views. In short, the rational
contribution of an experience yields a rule for revising views.
Gupta shows that this account provides theoretical freedom: it
allows the observer to radically reconceive the world in light of
empirical findings. Simultaneously, it grants empirical reason
significant power to constrain, forcing particular conceptions of
self and world on the rational inquirer. These seemingly contrary
virtues are reconciled through novel treatments of presentation,
appearances, and ostensive definitions. Collectively, Gupta's
arguments support an original theory: reformed empiricism. He
abandons the idea that experience is a source of knowledge and
justification. He also abandons the idea that concepts are derived
from experience. But reformed empiricism preserves empiricism's
central insight: experience is the supreme epistemic authority. In
the resolution of factual disagreements, experience trumps all.
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