The reliability of sense perception /
Why suppose that sense perception is an accurate source of information about the physical environment? More generally, is it possible to demonstrate that our basic ways of forming beliefs are reliable? In this book, a leading analytic philosopher confronts this classic problem through detailed inves...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction. i. The Problem. ii. Significance of the Problem. iii. Ways of Belief Formation. iv. Doxastic Practices. v. Reliability
- Ch. 2. Track Record and Other Simple Empirical Arguments for Reliability. i. A Track Record Argument for the Reliability of Sense Perceptual Practice (SP). ii. Epistemic Circularity. iii. A Piecemeal Approach. iv. Back to SP as a Whole. v. Pragmatic Arguments: Validation by Fruits. vi. The Road Ahead
- Ch. 3. A Priori Arguments. i. Theological Arguments. ii. Verificationism. iii. Criteria of Physical Object Concepts. iv. Paradigm Case Arguments. v. The Private Language Argument. vi. Transcendental Arguments
- Ch. 4. Empirical Arguments for the Reliability of SP. i. The Explanation of Sensory Experience. ii. The Explanation of Patterns in Sense Experience. iii. Attempts to Support the Standard Explanation. iv. Explanations of Our Success in Predicting Our Experience. v. Problems with the Argument.
- vi. How Widespread Is the Circularity Problem?
- Ch. 5. Where Do We Go from Here? i. The Problem. ii. A Practical Argument for the Rationality of SP. iii. Practical Rationality and Reliability. iv. Overriders of Prima Facie Rationality. v. Significant Self-Support.