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Berkeley's puzzle : what does experience teach us? / John Campbell and Quassim Cassam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, John, 1956- author.
- Cassam, Quassim, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
- Berkeley, George.
- Experience.
- Perception (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- What does experience teach us?
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: how does our sensory experience enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? This book is a debate between two rival approaches to understanding the relationship between concepts and sensory experience.
- Contents:
- The historical background / John Campbell
- A straightforward solution to Berkeley's puzzle / John Campbell
- Experiencing objects as mind-independent / John Campbell
- The role of sensory experience in propositional knowledge / John Campbell
- Berkeley's puzzle / Quassim Cassam
- Experientialism / Quassim Cassam
- The relational view of experience / Quassim Cassam
- Representationalism / Quassim Cassam
- Campbell's epilogue
- Cassam's epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 23, 2014).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-178498-2
- OCLC:
- 895503460
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