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Seeing, Knowing, and Doing - A Perceptualist Account (Hardcover)
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Seeing, Knowing, and Doing - A Perceptualist Account (Hardcover)
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Perception is basic for human knowledge and a major concern of both
epistemology and the philosophy of mind. The scholarship in this
area, however, has left two important aspects of perception
underexplored: its relevance to understanding a priori
knowledge-traditionally conceived as independent of perception-and
its role in human action. This book provides a full-scale account
of perception, a theory of the a priori, and an account of how
perception guides action. In exploring perception and action, it
clarifies the relation between action and practical reasoning, the
notion of rational action, and the relation between knowledge of
the practical (of how things are done) and practical knowledge
(knowing how to do things). In the first part of the book, Robert
Audi lays out a theory of perception as experiential,
representational, and causally connected with its objects. He
argues that perception is a discriminative response to its objects;
it embodies phenomenally distinctive elements; and it yields rich
information that underlies human knowledge. Part Two presents a
theory of self-evidence and the a priori. Audi's theory is
perceptualist in that it explicates the apprehension of a priori
truths by articulating its parallels to perception. The theory also
unifies empirical and a priori knowledge by clarifying their
reliable causal connections with their objects-connections many
have thought impossible for a priori knowledge. The final part
explores how perception guides action, the role of propositional
knowledge in our abilities to do what we know how to do, the nature
of reasons for action, the role of inference in determining it, and
the overall conditions for its rationality. Addressing longstanding
questions left unaddressed in the current literature, Audi's
comprehensive theory of perception will appeal to scholars and
students interested in philosophy of perception, mind, and
epistemology.
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