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This book offers a novel account of the relationship of experience to knowledge. The account builds on the intuitive idea that our ordinary perceptual judgments are not autonomous, that an interdependence obtains between our view of the world and our perceptual judgments. Anil Gupta shows in this important study that this interdependence is the key to a satisfactory account of experience. He uses tools from logic and the philosophy of language to argue that his account of experience makes available an attractive and feasible empiricism.
How can the relationship between human experience and the acquisition of knowledge be reconciled within a coherent philosophical framework? Anil Gupta, a prominent philosopher, examines the traditional tension between perceptual judgment and conceptual belief. He proposes that perceptual judgments are not autonomous but rather exist in a state of interdependence with our broader worldview, arguing that this connection provides a viable path for modern empiricism.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Experts frequently cite this work as a significant contribution to contemporary epistemology, noting its rigorous application of formal logic to long-standing philosophical debates. Readers often observe that the prose is dense and requires a strong background in analytic philosophy to fully grasp the technical arguments presented.
Page Count:
265
Publication Date:
2006-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190293454
ISBN-13:
9780190293451
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