Michael Williams launches an attack on what he calls "phenomenalism", the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. The point of this usage of the term "phenomenalism" is to call attention to continuities of thought between theories often thought to be competitors.
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"Groundless Belief is by far the clearest, most vigorous, and most convincing presentation of the case for antifoundationalism that has so far appeared."--Richard Rorty, Stanford University
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In this essay I shall be concerned with the philosophical problem of perceptual knowledge and, especially, with an approach to that problem which I shall call 'phenomenalism'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strict epistemological order, evidential connexions, classical phenomenalism, credible basic beliefs, parasitism argument, phenomenalistic theories, substantive foundationalism, phenomenalist theories, phenomenalist translations, empirical knowledge rests, correlate symbols, foundational picture, phenomenalist theory, physical world rests, credibility attaching, foundational view, phenomenal statements, sensuously given, mental pointing, senses mislead, logical presumption, beliefs about the physical world, observational knowledge, offering different ways, evidential relationships Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Philosophical Review, Norman Malcolm, Review of Metaphysics, Jonathan Bennett, Journal of Philosophy, Richard Rorty, American Philosophical Quarterly, Clarendon Press, Englewood Cliffs, Gilbert Harman, The Princeton Studies, Cornell University Press, Philosophical Essays, Random House, The Problems of Philosophy New!
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In this essay I shall be concerned with the philosophical problem of perceptual knowledge and, especially, with an approach to that problem which I shall call 'phenomenalism'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strict epistemological order, evidential connexions, classical phenomenalism, credible basic beliefs, parasitism argument, phenomenalistic theories, substantive foundationalism, phenomenalist theories, phenomenalist translations, empirical knowledge rests, correlate symbols, foundational picture, phenomenalist theory, physical world rests, credibility attaching, foundational view, phenomenal statements, sensuously given, mental pointing, senses mislead, logical presumption, beliefs about the physical world, observational knowledge, offering different ways, evidential relationships Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Philosophical Review, Norman Malcolm, Review of Metaphysics, Jonathan Bennett, Journal of Philosophy, Richard Rorty, American Philosophical Quarterly, Clarendon Press, Englewood Cliffs, Gilbert Harman, The Princeton Studies, Cornell University Press, Philosophical Essays, Random House, The Problems of Philosophy New!
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- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 4 pages
- Foundations of Empirical Knowledge by a.J. Ayer on page 47, page 81, and page 118
- Science, Perception and Reality by Wilfrid Sellars on page 38, page 141, and page 162
- Philosophical Essays by Alfred Jules Ayer on page 132, page 137, and page 169
- Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars on page 38, page 162, and Back Matter
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- The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception : From Locke to I.A. Richards by Jules David Law on 7 pages
- Routledge Library Editions - Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein and the Turning Point in the Philosophy of Mathematics by S.G. Shanker on page 34, page 38, and Back Matter
- Thinking in the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency (The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) by Michael P. Hodges in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace by David Hakken on page 84, and Back Matter
- Exploring Educational Administration by C.W Evers on page 28, and page 103
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