Motivation and the Primacy of Perception
Subtitle: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Knowledge
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780821424322
Description: "Arguing that knowledge is ultimately founded in perceptual experience, Peter Antich interprets and defends Merleau-Ponty's thinking on motivation as the key to establishing a new form of epistemic grounding. Upending the classical dichotomy between reason and natural causality, justification and explanation, Antich shows how this epistemic ground enables Merleau-Ponty to offer a radically new account of knowledge and its relation to perception. In so doing, Antich demonstrates how and why Merleau-Ponty remains a vital resource for today's epistemologists"--