The Reliability of Sense Perception,9780801481017

The Reliability of Sense Perception

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ISBN13: 9780801481017
ISBN10: 0801481015
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-01-01
Publisher(s): Cornell Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction
1(11)
The Problem
1(1)
Significance of the Problem
2(2)
Ways of Belief Formation
4(3)
Doxastic Practices
7(1)
Reliability
8(4)
Track Record and Other Simple Empirical Arguments for Reliability
12(14)
A Track Record Argument for the Reliability of Sense Perceptual Practice (SP)
12(3)
Epistemic Circularity
15(2)
A Piecemeal Approach
17(2)
Back to SP as a Whole
19(3)
Pragmatic Arguments: Validation by Fruits
22(3)
The Road Ahead
25(1)
A Priori Arguments
26(34)
Theological Arguments
26(4)
Verificationism
30(2)
Criteria of Physical Object Concepts
32(13)
Paradigm Case Arguments
45(8)
The Private Language Argument
53(4)
Transcendental Arguments
57(3)
Empirical Arguments for the Reliability of SP
60(60)
The Explanation of Sensory Experience
60(10)
The Explanation of Patterns in Sense Experience
70(8)
Attempts to Support the Standard Explanation
78(19)
Explanations of Our Success in Predicting Our Experience
97(4)
Problems with the Argument
101(14)
How Widespread Is the Circularity Problem?
115(5)
Where Do We Go from Here?
120(21)
The Problem
120(4)
A Practical Argument for the Rationality of SP
124(6)
Practical Rationality and Reliability
130(4)
Overriders of Prima Facie Rationality
134(4)
Significant Self-Support
138(3)
Bibliography 141(4)
Index 145

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