{"product_id":"knowing-and-seeing-groundwork-for-a-new-empiricism-hardcover-2","title":"Knowing and Seeing: Groundwork for a New Empiricism - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Ayers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? In \u003cem\u003eKnowing and Seeing\u003c\/em\u003e, Michael Ayers recovers the insight in the traditional distinction between knowledge and belief, according to which 'knowledge' stems from direct and perspicuous cognitive contact with ('seeing') its object, whereas 'belief' relies on 'extraneous' justification. He conducts a careful phenomenological analysis of what it is to perceive one's environment as one's environment, the result of which is not only direct realism, but recognition that in being perceptually aware of anything we are at the same time perceptually aware of how we are aware of it. Perceptual knowing comes with knowing \u003cem\u003ehow\u003c\/em\u003e you know. Some other forms of knowledge are similarly direct and perspicuous, but not all; a distinction is accordingly drawn between primary and secondary knowledge, and Ayers argues that no secondary knowledge is possible without some primary knowledge. Perceptual knowledge supplies the paradigm to which other cases of\u003cbr\u003eknowledge are diversely analogous - hence the notorious difficulty of defining knowledge. These conclusions, supported by a detailed examination of the relations between different grammatical constructions in which 'know', 'believe' and 'see' occur, fuel extended critiques of two lines of thought influential in contemporary epistemology: John McDowell's conceptualist and intellectualist account of perceptual knowledge, and Fred Dretske's 'externalist' employment of sceptical argument. Ayers unpicks the arguments for these other views, explains the failure of recent attempts at a comprehensive definition of knowledge, explores the tight relation between knowledge and certainty, and gives an account of how 'defeasibility' should and should not be understood in epistemology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Ayers, \u003cem\u003eEmeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Ayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of Academia Europea. He was elected as Tutorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, in 1965, and remained there, later as Reader and Professor, until retiring in 2002. Over the course of his career, Ayers has also had several visiting appointments at universities in the USA, including Berkeley. He has published widely on the history and historiography of philosophy, especially of epistemology.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.29 x 6.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47346909348089,"sku":"9780198833567","price":179.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Q2RGVVhsdVlxNnhFUlVrQlplWStiUT09_4f727dd6-9e7b-4082-bc6a-0d093945f6ac.webp?v=1769757299","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/knowing-and-seeing-groundwork-for-a-new-empiricism-hardcover-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}