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Author Gupta, Anil, 1949-

Title Empiricism and experience / Anil Gupta
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents 1. Two truisms -- 2. Some virtues of classical empiricism -- 3. Interdependent definitions : an introduction -- 4. A model of experience and knowledge -- 5. Direct awareness, semantics, and solipsism -- 6. A reformed empiricism -- 7. Removing idealization -- 8. Concluding remarks -- Supplement on 'experience' -- References -- Index
Summary The author asks one of the key questions in philosophy: what is the contribution of experience of knowledge? He uses tools from philosophical logic to show that a natural account of experience is available using the interdependence of views and perceptual judgements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Experience.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Empiricism.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Empiricism.
Empiricism
Experience
Knowledge, Theory of
Erkenntnistheorie
Empirismus
Empirisme.
Experimenteel onderzoek.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005055485
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