Perception and Basic Beliefs: Zombies, Modules and the Problem of the External World

Perception and Basic Beliefs: Zombies, Modules and the Problem of the External World
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216
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019537357X
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Промышленность. Техника. Информатика

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Записи бесед мирянина Пана, Записи бесед `Мудростью освещающего` Наставника Чань Линь-цзи из области Чжэнь, Грамматический очерк китайского языка эпохи Тан, Библиография

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Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world. Perception and Basic Beliefs addresses two central questions in epistemology: which beliefs are epistemologically basic (i.e., noninferentially justified) and where does perception end and inferential cognition begin. Jack Lyons offers a highly externalist theory, arguing that what makes a belief a basic belief or a perceptual belief is determined by the nature of the cognitive system, or module, that produced the beliefs. On this view, the sensory experiences that typically accompany perceptual beliefs play no indispensable role in the justification of these beliefs, and one can have perceptual beliefs--justified perceptual beliefs--even in the absence of any sensory experiences whatsoever. Lyons develops a general theory of basic beliefs and argues that perceptual beliefs are a species of basic beliefs. This results from the fact that perceptual modules are a special type of basic belief-producing modules....

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