Acquaintance : new essays / edited by Jonathan Knowles and Thomas Raleigh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knowles, Jonathan, 1967- editor.

Raleigh, Thomas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Perception (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 298 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'. For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, many philosophers viewed the notion of acquaintance with suspicion, associating it with Russellian ideas that they would wish to reject. However in the past decade or two the concept has undergone a striking revival in mainstream 'analytic' philosophy-acquaintance is, it seems, respectable again. This volume showcases the great variety of topics in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language for which philosophers are currently employing the notion of acquaintance. It is the first collection of new essays devoted to the topic of acquaintance, featuring chapters from many of the world's leading experts in this area. Opening with an extensive introductory essay, which provides some historical background and summarizes the main debates and issues concerning acquaintance, the remaining thirteen contributions are grouped thematically into four sections: phenomenal consciousness, perceptual experience, reference, and epistemology.

Contents:

Acquaintance is consciousness and consciousness is acquaintance / Joseph Levine

Natural acquaintance / Sam Coleman

What acquaintance teaches / Alex Grzankowski and Michael Tye

Betwixt feeling and thinking: two-level accounts of experience / M.G.F. Martin

Acquaintance in an experience of perception-cum-action / David Woodruff Smith

Dreaming, phenomenal character, and acquaintance / Tom Stoneham

Rationalism, Berkeley's puzzle, and phenomenological externalism / Jonathan Knowles

Acquaintance, conceptual capacities, and attention / Anders Nes

Acquaintance as grounded in joint attention / John Campbell

Principles of acquaintance / Jessica Pepp

Acquaintance, the foundation of knowledge and thought / Richard Fumerton

Objectual knowledge / Katalin Farkas

Visual experience, revelation, and the three Rs / Bill Brewer.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-252523-9

0-19-184164-1

0-19-252522-0