Beskrivning
Beskrivning
This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporarytheories of perceptual justification that each highlight different factorsrelated to perception, i.e., conscious experience, higher-order beliefs, andreliable processes. The book’s discussion starts from the viewpoint thatperception is not only one of our fundamental sources of knowledge andjustification, but also plays this role for many less sophisticated animals. Itproposes a scientifically informed reliabilist theory which can accommodate thisfact without denying that some of our epistemic abilities as human perceiversare special. This allows it to combine many of our intuitions about theimportance of conscious experience and higher-order belief with thecontroversial thesis that perceptual justification is fundamentallynon-evidential in character.
