Knowing and Seeing: Groundwork for a new empiricism

Author:   Michael Ayers (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198833567


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   24 April 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Knowing and Seeing: Groundwork for a new empiricism


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Author:   Michael Ayers (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 14.10cm
Weight:   0.493kg
ISBN:  

9780198833567


ISBN 10:   0198833563
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   24 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Part I: Knowledge, Belief and Perception 1: Michael Ayers and Maria Rosa Antognazza: Knowledge and belief from Plato to Locke 2: Perception and primary knowledge. 3: Conceptualism and perceptual knowledge 4: Internal and external objects of cognition Part II: Philosophical Scepticism 5: Scepticism, certainty and defeasibility 6: Scepticism and Externalism 7: Conclusions

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absorbing . . . extraordinarily rich . . . I hope enough has been said to give a sense of the major accomplishment that Knowing and Seeing represents, and of the major benefits contemporary epistemology stands to reap from taking it seriously. * Johannes Roessler, Mind * immensely rich and inspiring * Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum and Mira Magdalena Sickinger, Grazer Philosophische Studien * Ayers's book contains a wealth of claims and arguments of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of mind * Simon Wimmer, Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur *


absorbing . . . extraordinarily rich . . . I hope enough has been said to give a sense of the major accomplishment that Knowing and Seeing represents, and of the major benefits contemporary epistemology stands to reap from taking it seriously. * Johannes Roessler, Mind * immensely rich and inspiring * Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum and Mira Magdalena Sickinger, Grazer Philosophische Studien * Ayers's book contains a wealth of claims and arguments of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of mind * Simon Wimmer, Zeitschrift fur philosophische Literatur *


Author Information

Michael Ayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of Academia Europea. He was elected as Tutorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, in 1965, and remained there, later as Reader and Professor, until retiring in 2002. Over the course of his career, Ayers has also had several visiting appointments at universities in the USA, including Berkeley. He has published widely on the history and historiography of philosophy, especially of epistemology.

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