Seeing, Knowing, Understanding
Philosophical Essays
Published on 14. June 2018
Book
Hardback
286 pages
978-0-19-880975-3 (ISBN)
Description
Barry Stroud presents nineteen of his philosophical essays written since 2001, on topics to do with knowing, seeing, and understanding. He discusses the nature of philosophy, sense experience, the possibility of perceptual knowledge, intentional action and self-knowledge, the reality of the colours of things, alien thought and the limits of understanding, moral knowledge, meaning, use, and understanding of language.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-880975-3 (9780198809753)
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Person
Barry Stroud is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of Hume (1977), The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism (OUP, 1984), The Quest for Reality (OUP, 2000), Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction (2011), and three other collections of essays: Understanding Human Knowledge (OUP, 2000), Meaning, Understanding, and Practice (OUP, 2000), and Philosophers Past and Present (2011).
Content
1: What is Philosophy? (2001)
2: The Pursuit of Philosophy (2008)
3: The Epistemological Promise of Externalism (2005)
4: Epistemological Self-Profile (2010)
5: Explaining Perceptual Knowledge (2009)
6: Scepticism and the Senses (2009)
7: Seeing What is So (2011)
8: Perceptual Knowledge and the Primacy of Judgment (2015)
9: Doing Something Intentionally and Knowing That You Are Doing It (2013
10: Judgement, Self-Consciousness, Idealism (2013)
11: Feelings and the Ascription of Feelings (2011)
12: Kant's "Transcendental Deduction" (2017)
13: Unmasking and Dispositionalism (2004)
14: Are the Colours of Things Secondary Qualities? (2017)
15: Concepts of Colour and Limits of Understanding (2014)
16: Logical Aliens and the 'Ground' of Necessary Truth (2017)
17: Ways of Meaning and Knowing Moral Realities (2016)
18: Meaning and Understanding (2011)
19: Davidson and Wittgenstein on Meaning and Understanding (2017)
2: The Pursuit of Philosophy (2008)
3: The Epistemological Promise of Externalism (2005)
4: Epistemological Self-Profile (2010)
5: Explaining Perceptual Knowledge (2009)
6: Scepticism and the Senses (2009)
7: Seeing What is So (2011)
8: Perceptual Knowledge and the Primacy of Judgment (2015)
9: Doing Something Intentionally and Knowing That You Are Doing It (2013
10: Judgement, Self-Consciousness, Idealism (2013)
11: Feelings and the Ascription of Feelings (2011)
12: Kant's "Transcendental Deduction" (2017)
13: Unmasking and Dispositionalism (2004)
14: Are the Colours of Things Secondary Qualities? (2017)
15: Concepts of Colour and Limits of Understanding (2014)
16: Logical Aliens and the 'Ground' of Necessary Truth (2017)
17: Ways of Meaning and Knowing Moral Realities (2016)
18: Meaning and Understanding (2011)
19: Davidson and Wittgenstein on Meaning and Understanding (2017)