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Book SynopsisBill Brewer presents, motivates, and defends a bold new solution to a fundamental problem in the philosophy of perception. What is the correct theoretical conception of perceptual experience, and how should we best understand the most fundamental nature of our perceptual relation with the physical objects in the world around us? Most theorists today analyse perception in terms of its representational content, in large part in order to avoid fatal problems attending the early modern conception of perception as a relation with particular mind-dependent objects of experience. Having set up the underlying problem and explored the lessons to be learnt from the various difficulties faced by opposing early modern responses to it, Bill Brewer argues that this contemporary approach has serious problems of its own. Furthermore, the early modern insight that perception is most fundamentally to be construed as a relation of conscious acquaintance with certain direct objects of experience is, he cl
Trade ReviewSetting aside the concern that OV is insufficiently continuous with the early modern conception of acquaintance, Brewers book is well worth reading for his extensive development of an original form of direct realism and of the relevance of such a view to related epistemological and phenomenological matters. * Kenneth Hobson, Philosophy in Review XXXIII (2013), no. 6 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Inconsistent Triad ; 2. Anti-Realism ; 3. Indirect Realism ; 4. The Content View ; 5. The Object View ; 6. Epistemology ; 7. Realism and Explanation
