Bill Brewer presents an original view of the role of conscious experience in the acquisition of empirical knowledge. He argues that perceptual experiences must provide reasons for empirical beliefs if there are to be any determinate beliefs at all about particular objects in the world. This fresh approach to epistemology turns away from the search for necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge and works instead from a theory of understanding in a particular area.
Introduction PART I: PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES PROVIDE REASONS 1. Historical-Epistemological Context 2. Belief and Experience 3. Experience and Reason 4. Epistemological Consequences and Criticisms PART II: THE RATIONAL ROLE OF PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES 5. Reasons Require Conceptual Contents 6. The Rational Role of Perceptual Experiences 7. Epistemological Outlook 8. Developments and Consequences Bibliography Index
Bill Brewer is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. He has held visiting positions at Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley, and a three-year research fellowship at King's College Cambridge.
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