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Perception and Knowledge Walter Hopp (Boston University)

Perception and Knowledge By Walter Hopp (Boston University)

Perception and Knowledge by Walter Hopp (Boston University)


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Summary

This book argues that perceptual experiences do not have conceptual content, and that what makes them play such a distinctive epistemic role is something that sets them radically apart from beliefs. It covers a wide range of central topics in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology and traditional phenomenology.

Perception and Knowledge Summary

Perception and Knowledge: A Phenomenological Account by Walter Hopp (Boston University)

This book offers a provocative, clear and rigorously argued account of the nature of perception and its role in the production of knowledge. Walter Hopp argues that perceptual experiences do not have conceptual content, and that what makes them play a distinctive epistemic role is not the features which they share with beliefs, but something that in fact sets them radically apart. He explains that the reason-giving relation between experiences and beliefs is what Edmund Husserl called 'fulfilment' - in which we find something to be as we think it to be. His book covers a wide range of central topics in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology and traditional phenomenology. It is essential reading for contemporary analytic philosophers of mind and phenomenologists alike.

Perception and Knowledge Reviews

'This is a book of many virtues. I think first among them is the level of detail in its arguments, with such a great many figures currently working in the 'analytic' philosophy of mind.' Philosophy in Review
' one of the merits of Hopp's book is that he gives beautifully lucid accounts of debates that have become highly obscure. I can well imagine recommending the discussions of content and of the non-conceptual to an undergraduate confused by the literature, and I intend that as a sincere compliment.' Nick Wiltsher, The Philosophical Quarterly

About Walter Hopp (Boston University)

Walter Hopp is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He has published articles in numerous journals including the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, the European Journal of Philosophy and Husserl Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Content; 2. Experiential conceptualism; 3. Conceptualism and knowledge; 4. Against experiential conceptualism; 5. Conceptual and nonconceptual content; 6. The contents of perception; 7. To the things themselves; Bibliography.

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NPB9781107003163
9781107003163
1107003164
Perception and Knowledge: A Phenomenological Account by Walter Hopp (Boston University)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2011-04-07
260
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