Present to the Mind : Acquaintance and Its Significance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Matt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

Russell, Bertrand.

Perception (Philosophy).

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Present to the Mind presents acquaintance as an indispensable mode of access to the world-not only in knowing, but in feeling, valuing, and judging. Duncan's account challenges other views of knowledge and offers a compelling framework for understanding how we engage with the world in its most immediate and meaningful forms.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Your Epistemic Day

Section I Acquaintance Exists

1 What Is Acquaintance?

1.1 Acquaintance Theories, Past and Present

1.1.1 Russellian Acquaintance

1.1.2 Contemporary Acquaintance

1.2 The Core Notion of Acquaintance

1.2.1 The Metaphysics of Experience

1.2.2 The Objects of Acquaintance

1.2.3 Directness

1.2.4 Analyzing Acquaintance

1.2.5 Epistemology

1.2.6 The Core Notion

1.3 Conclusion

2 Weak Acquaintance Exists

2.1 The Regress Argument

2.2 Two Challenges to Weak Acquaintance

3 Strong Acquaintance Exists

3.1 The Doubt Test

3.2 The Doubt Argument

3.3 Contingency, Absolutely Strong Acquaintance, and Modal Acquaintance

3.4 Eden, Phenomenal Acquaintance, and Essence Acquaintance

3.5 Conclusion

Section II Acquaintance is Knowledge

4 A Puzzle About Perceptual Knowledge

4.1 The Puzzle: An Inconsistent Triad

4.2 Further Preliminaries

4.3 Option 1: Deny that You Lack the Beliefs

4.4 Option 2: Deny that You Have the Knowledge

4.5 Option 3: Deny that Knowledge Requires Belief

5 Awareness Is Knowledge

5.1 Three Approaches to the Question

5.2 Knowledge Roles and Awareness

5.3 The Behavior Argument

5.4 The Reasoning Argument

5.5 Conclusion

6 What Is Knowledge of Things?

6.1 Recap and Preliminaries

6.2 Awareness

6.3 Things

6.4 Further Epistemic Features

6.5 Relations to Other Knowledge

Section III Acquaintance Matters

7 Acquaintance Is Epistemically Significant

7.1 Acquaintance Is Epistemically Significant by Itself

7.2 Acquaintance Justifies Beliefs

7.3 Acquaintance Justifies Beliefs Immediately

7.4 Acquaintance Is the Foundation for (Lots of) Other Knowledge.

7.5 Acquaintance, Not Just Experience, Has Epistemic Significance

7.6 Foundationalism, One More Time

7.7 Conclusion

8 Acquaintance Is Aesthetically Significant

8.1 Getting Acquainted with Art

8.2 Why Art?

8.3 Aesthetic Knowledge and Appreciation

8.4 Aesthetic Acquaintance Foundationalism

8.5 Aesthetic Success and Failure

8.6 Conclusion

9 Acquaintance Is Emotionally Significant

9.1 The Feeling: My Examples

9.2 What Is the Feeling? Some Preliminaries

9.3 The Feeling: Your Examples

9.4 What Type of Experience Is the Feeling?

9.4.1 Empathy?

9.4.2 Pity?

9.4.3 Attitudes or Perceptions?

9.4.4 The Affective Disclosure of Value?

9.4.5 Kantian Love?

9.4.6 Mister Rogers Love?

9.5 The Feeling and Acquaintance

9.6 How Can We Help?

10 Acquaintance Is Morally Significant

10.1 A Very Old Idea

10.2 Narrowing the Focus

10.3 The Epistemic Depends on the Moral

10.4 The Moral Depends on the Epistemic

10.4.1 The Appreciation Argument

10.4.2 The Motivation Argument

10.5 Conclusion

Conclusion

Why Is Acquaintance So Significant?

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-784415-4

0-19-784413-8

OCLC:

1570330314