The External World And Our Knowledge Of It

Author : Bruce Aune
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134946235

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Knowledge of the External World by Bruce Aune Pdf

Many philosophers believe that the traditional problem of our knowledge of the external world was dissolved by Wittgestein and others. They argue that it was not really a problem - just a linguistic `confusion' that did not actually require a solution. Bruce Aune argues that they are wrong. He casts doubt on the generally accepted reasons for putting the problem aside and proposes an entirely new approach. By considering the history of the problem from Descartes to Kant, Aune shows that analogous arguments create difficulties for the contemporary philosophical consensus. He makes it clear that the problem remains acute, particualarly for our understanding of scientific evidence. The solution he proposes draws upon contemporary philosophy of science and probability theory.

Author : Fred Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802097644

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The External World and Our Knowledge of it by Fred Wilson Pdf

David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual's knowledge of the external world. However, a closer examination of his works gives a much different impression of this aspect of Hume's philosophy, one that is due for a thorough scholarly analysis. This study argues that Hume was, in fact, a critical realist in the early twentieth-century sense, a period in which the term was used to describe the epistemological and ontological theories of such philosophers as Roy Wood Sellars and Bertrand Russell. Carefully situating Hume in his historical context, that is, relative to Aristotelian and rationalist traditions, Fred Wilson makes important and unique insights into Humean philosophy. Analyzing key sections of the Treatise, the Enquiry, and the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, Wilson offers a deeper understanding of Hume by taking into account the philosopher's theories of the external world. Such a reading, the author explains, is not only more faithful to the texts, but also reinforces the view of Hume as a critical realist in light of twentieth-century discussions between externalism and internalism, and between coherentists and foundationalists. Complete with original observations and ideas, this study is sure to generate debates about Humean philosophy, critical realism, and the limits of perceptual knowledge.

Author : Don Locke
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415295629

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Perception by Don Locke Pdf

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134026913

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Our Knowledge of the External World by Bertrand Russell Pdf

Our Knowledge of the External World is a compilation of lectures Bertrand Russell delivered in the US in which he questions the very relevance and legitimacy of philosophy. In it he investigates the relationship between ‘individual’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge and questions the means in which we have come to understand our physical world. This is an explosive and controversial work that illustrates instances where the claims of philosophers have been excessive, and examines why their achievements have not been greater.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415094399

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Bertrand Russell's Best by Bertrand Russell Pdf

First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ian Olasov
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781250756183

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Ask a Philosopher by Ian Olasov Pdf

A collection of answers to the philosophical questions on people's minds—from the big to the personal to the ones you didn't know you needed answered. Based on real-life questions from his Ask a Philosopher series, Ian Olasov offers his answers to questions such as: - Are people innately good or bad? - Is it okay to have a pet fish? - Is it okay to have kids? - Is color subjective? - If humans colonize Mars, who will own the land? - Is ketchup a smoothie? - Is there life after death? - Should I give money to homeless people? Ask a Philosopher shows that there's a way of making philosophy work for each of us, and that philosophy can be both perfectly continuous with everyday life, and also utterly transporting. From questions that we all wrestle with in private to questions that you never thought to ask, Ask a Philosopher will get you thinking.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024397643

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Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Pdf

Author : Andrew Brook,Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262261642

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Knowledge and Mind by Andrew Brook,Robert J. Stainton Pdf

This is the only contemporary text to cover both epistemology and philosophy of mind at an introductory level. It also serves as a general introduction to philosophy: it discusses the nature and methods of philosophy as well as basic logical tools of the trade. The book is divided into three parts. The first focuses on knowledge, in particular, skepticism and knowledge of the external world, and knowledge of language. The second focuses on mind, including the metaphysics of mind and freedom of will. The third brings together knowledge and mind, discussing knowledge of mind (other minds and our own) and naturalism and how epistemology and philosophy of mind come together in contemporary cognitive science. Throughout, the authors take into account the needs of the beginning philosophy student. They have made very effort to ensure accessibility while preserving accuracy.

Author : Barry Stroud
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519932

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The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism by Barry Stroud Pdf

This book raises questions about the nature of philosophy by examining the source and significance of one central philosophical problem: how can we know anything about the world around us? Stroud discusses and criticizes the views of such philosophers as Descartes, Kant, J.L. Austin, G.E. Moore, R. Carnap, W.V. Quine, and others.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:915883537

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Our Knowledge of the External World by Bertrand Russell Pdf

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192854230

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The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Pdf

This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.

Author : Peter Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521267072

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Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles by Peter Alexander Pdf

This study presents a substantial and often radical reinterpretation of some of the central themes of Locke's thought. Professor Alexander concentrates on the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and aims to restore that to its proper historical context. In Part I he gives a clear exposition of some of the scientific theories of Robert Boyle, which, he argues, heavily influenced Locke in employing similar concepts and terminology. Against this background, he goes on in Part II to provide an account of Locke's views on the external world and our knowledge of it. He shows those views to be more consistent and plausible than is generally allowed, demonstrating how they make sense and enable scientific explanations of nature. In examining the views of Locke and Boyle together, the book throws light both on the development of philosophy and the beginnings of modern science, and in particular it makes a considerable and original contribution to our understanding of Locke's philosophy.

Author : Don Locke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138870781

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Perception by Don Locke Pdf

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Russell Bertrand
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318009014

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Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell Bertrand Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199385157

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Seeing Things as They are by John R. Searle Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the objective field. Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction between different levels of perception from the basic level to the higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the experience. The account applies not just to language possessing human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.