Skepticism and the Veil of Perception

Name: Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
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ISBN: 9780742512535

ISBN-10: 0742512533

ISBN-13: 9780742512535

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael Huemer

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This book develops and defends a version of direct realism: the thesis that perception gives us direct awareness, and non-inferential knowledge, of the external world. Huemer rebuts the main arguments used by philosophical skeptics to try to show that we cannot know anything about the world outside of the mind, as well as the arguments used by representationalists to try to show that we only perceive representations of external objects.

Book details

List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.09" wide x 9.12" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Analytical Contents


Figures


Preface



Introduction: The Problem of Perceptual Knowledge



The Lure of Radical Skepticism



Easy Answers to Skepticism



A Version of Direct Realism



A Version of Foundationalism



Objections to Direct Realism



An Objection to Indirect Realism: The Problem of Spatial Properties



The Direct Realist's Answer to Skepticism


References


Index


About the Author