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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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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 investigation of sense perception, the source of beliefs in which we place the most confidence. Carefully assessing the available arguments, William P. Alston concludes that it is not possible to show in any noncircular way that sense perception is a reliable source of beliefs. Alston thoroughly examines the main arguments that have been advanced for the reliability of sense perception, including arguments from the various kinds of success we achieve by relying on the sense perception, arguments that some features of our sense experience are best explained by supposing that it is an accurate guide, and arguments that there is something conceptually incoherent about the idea that sense perception is not reliable. He concludes that all of these arguments that are not disqualified in other ways are epistemically circular, for they use premises based upon the very source in question. Alston then suggest that the most appropriate response to the impossibility of showing that our basic sources of beliefs are reliable is an appeal to the practical rationality of engaging in certain socially established belief-forming practices. The Reliability of Sense Perception will be welcome by epistemologists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers of science. | ||
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