Perception and basic beliefs : zombies, modules, and the problem of the external world / Jack C. Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, Jack C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

xvii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Chapter 1 External Object Foundationalism 3

1 The Problem of the External World 5

2 Metaphysical and Epistemological Direct Realisms 8

3 Basic Beliefs 14

Chapter 2 Doxastic and Nondoxastic Theories 20

1 Evidential and Nonevidential Justifiers 21

2 The Supervenience Argument 26

3 Doxasticism and Nondoxasticism 28

4 Doxastic Theories 30

Chapter 3 Experientialist Theories 37

1 Sensation and Perception 42

2 Sensations as Grounds 49

2.1 Sensationless Perception 50

2.2 The Sensation-Perception Gap and Collateral Information 54

2.3 Problems Concerning Basing 59

2.4 SE and the Content of Sensations 62

3 Percepts as Grounds 68

3.1 In Search of the Percept 69

3.2 Percepts and Beliefs 70

3.3 The Zombies Return 72

4 The Belief Principle 74

5 Experiential States as Nonevidential Justifiers 77

6 Intuitive Resistance 80

7 Recapitulation 83

Chapter 4 Perceptual Systems and Perceptual Beliefs 85

1 Perceptual Systems 88

1.1 Cognitive Systems/Modules 88

1.2 Perceptual Modules 90

2 The Plausibility of the Perceptual System Theory 98

2.1 The "Grain Size" of Perceptual Beliefs 98

2.2 Perception and Ungrounded Justified Belief 101

2.3 Perceptual Learning and Nonexperiential 'Looks' 102

2.4 Percept Experientialism Revisited 108

3 Perceptual Beliefs and Basic Beliefs 109

Chapter 5 Perception, Clairvoyance, and Reliability 112

1 Simple Reliabilism and the Norman/Truetemp Objections 113

2 Clairvoyance and Basicality 115

2.1 Underspecification and the "Clairvoyance Challenge" 115

2.2 Perception and Other Cognitive Abilities 117

2.3 "Meta-Incoherence" 120

3 Reliability and Basicality 122

3.1 Clairvoyance and Defeat 123

3.2 Experientialist Reliabilism 124

3.3 Early Reliabilism 125

3.4 Teleological Reliabilism 127

Chapter 6 Basic Beliefs 130

1 The Delineation Problem 131

1.1 The Desiderata 131

1.2 A Systems Theory of Basicality 136

1.3 Counterexamples and Replies 144

2 Intuitions and Beyond 149

2.1 Descriptive and Normative Epistemology 150

2.2 Cognitive Science and Basicality 155

2.3 Illustration: Why My Philosophy Is More God-Friendly than Plantinga's 159

2.4 Reflective Equilibrium and Etiological Constraints 163

Chapter 7 Basic and Nonbasic Beliefs in a Reliabilist Epistemology 166

1 Toward a Theory of Justification 167

1.1 Evidential Justification 167

1.2 Defeat 174

1.3 Outline of a Theory 177

2 Internalism and Externalism 178

3 The Problem(s) of the External World 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.

ISBN:

9780195373578

019537357X

OCLC:

227915785