Berkeley's puzzle : what does experience teach us
Campbell, JohnAuthor
Cassam, QuassimAuthor
Cassam, QuassimContributor
Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: how does our sensory experience enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? This book is a debate between two rival approaches to understanding the relationship between concepts and sensory experience.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: how does our sensory experience enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? This book is a debate between two rival approaches to understanding the relationship between concepts and sensory experience.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 23, 2014).
The historical background / John Campbell -- A straightforward solution to Berkeley's puzzle / John Campbell -- Experiencing objects as mind-independent / John Campbell -- The role of sensory experience in propositional knowledge / John Campbell -- Berkeley's puzzle / Quassim Cassam -- Experientialism / Quassim Cassam -- The relational view of experience / Quassim Cassam -- Representationalism / Quassim Cassam -- Campbell's epilogue -- Cassam's epilogue.
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
Experience
Perception (Philosophy)
Philosophy & Religion
Philosophy