The rationality of perception / Susanna Siegel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siegel, Susanna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception.

Reasoning (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 221 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

There is an important division in the human mind between perception and reasoning. We reason from information that we have already, but perception is a means of taking in new information. Susanna Siegel argues that these two aspects of the mind become deeply intertwined when beliefs, fears, desires, or prejudice influence what we perceive.

Contents:

Part I. The Problem and Its Solution. The problem of hijacked experience ; The solution sketched ; Epistemic charge

Part II. Defending the Solution: The Epistemic Profile of Experience. Epistemic downgrade ; Inference without reckoning ; How experiences can lose power from inference ; How experiences can gain power from inference

Part III. Applications. Evaluative perception ; Selection effects ; The problem of culturally normal belief.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-184434-9