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El Kassar Nadja <1984-> |
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Towards a theory of epistemically significant perception : how we relate to the world / / Nadja El Kassar |
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Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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3-11-044536-0 |
3-11-044562-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Ideen & Argumente, , 1862-1147 |
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Disciplina |
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Perception (Philosophy) |
Conceptualism |
Relationism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Conceptualism -- 1 Introducing Conceptualism -- 2 Examining Non-Conceptualist Arguments against Conceptualism -- 3 Examining McDowell's Revised Conceptualism -- Part II Relationism -- 4 Relationism: Perception as Conscious Acquaintance -- 5 Relationism as Anti-Representationalism -- 6 Why McDowell's Revised Conceptualism Does Not Avoid Travis's Anti-Representationalist Criticism -- Part III Relational Conceptualism -- 7 Relational Conceptualism: a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception -- 8 Possible Objections against Relational Conceptualism -- Part IV. Relational Conceptualism and Empirical Science -- 9 Broadening the Scope of Relational Conceptualism -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
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How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable about the world? In this book Nadja El Kassar argues that an informed answer requires a novel theory of perception: perceptual experience involves conceptual capacities and consists in a relation between a perceiver and the world. Contemporary theories of perception disagree about the role of content and conceptual capacities in perceptual experience. In her analysis El Kassar scrutinizes the arguments of conceptualist and |
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relationist theories, thereby exposing their limitations for explaining the epistemic role of perceptual experience. Against this background she develops her novel theory of epistemically significant perception. Her theory improves on current accounts by encompassing both the epistemic role of perceptual experiences and its perceptual character. Central claims of her theory receive additional support from work in vision science, making this book an original contribution to the philosophy of perception. |
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UNINA9910586578203321 |
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Autore |
Carlton Howard |
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Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century : Astronomic Emotions / / by Howard Carlton |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
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9783031052804 |
9783031052798 |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 pages) |
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Church history |
Science - History |
Astronomy |
Social history |
Church History |
History of Science |
Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences |
Social History |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Part1. Introduction -- 1. Crisis and Cosmology -- Part II The Extraterrestrial Life Debate.-2 Planets and Pluralism.-3 “In Yonder Hundred Million Spheres” -- 4 “What Is Man if Thou Art Mindful of |
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Him?” -- 5 Richard Proctor and Private Judgement -- Part III The Nebular Hypothesis -- 6 John Pringle Nichol, the Nebular Hypothesis and Progressive Cosmogony.-7 “And Eddied into Suns, that Wheeling Cast/The Planets” -- 8 “In Tracts of Fluent Heat Began” -- Part IV The Ages of the Earth and Sun -- 9 “And Murmurs from the Dying Sun” -- 10 The North Britons. |
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This book argues that while the historiography of the development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the important influences of socio-cultural and material contexts, the significant impact of traumatic events, life threatening illnesses and other psychotropic stimuli on the development of scientific thought may not have been fully recognised. Howard Carlton examines the available primary sources which provide insight into the lives of a number of nineteenth-century astronomers, theologians and physicists to study the complex interactions within their ‘biocultural’ brain-body systems which drove parallel changes of perspective in theology, metaphysics, and cosmology. In doing so, he also explores three topics of great scientific interest during this period: the question of the possible existence of life on other planets; the deployment of the nebular hypothesis as a theory of cosmogony; and the religiously charged debates about the ages of the earth and sun. From this body of evidence we gain a greater understanding of the underlying phenomena which actuated intellectual developments in the past and which are still relevant to today’s knowledge-making processes. Howard Carlton received his PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. His research explores a number of nineteenth-century astronomical controversies in order to demonstrate that the ideas of participants in these debates were materially altered by traumatic life-events, as evidenced by their subsequent productions and their performances of altered selves. |
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