Empiricism and experience / Anil Gupta.

The author asks one of the key questions in philosophy: what is the contribution of experience of knowledge? He uses tools from philosophical logic to show that a natural account of experience is available using the interdependence of views and perceptual judgements.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gupta, Anil, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:OUP E-Books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Two truisms
  • 2. Some virtues of classical empiricism
  • 3. Interdependent definitions : an introduction
  • 4. A model of experience and knowledge
  • 5. Direct awareness, semantics, and solipsism
  • 6. A reformed empiricism
  • 7. Removing idealization
  • 8. Concluding remarks
  • Supplement on 'experience'
  • References
  • Index.