Skepticism About the External World
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195117190
ISBN-13
9780195117196
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 9th, 1998
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
499 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.70 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontologyPhilosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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Do we know or even have evidence that external material objects exist? Butchvarov offers an original approach to this perennial philosophical issue, putting forward a radical theory of perception in proposing that perceived material objects do not necessarily actually exist. The metaphysics of reality, unreality and perception are explored.
One of the most important and perennially debated philosophical questions is whether we can have knowledge of the external world. Butchvarov here considers whether and how scepticism with regard to such knowledge can be refuted or at least answered. He argues that only a direct realist view of perception has any hope of providing a compelling response to the sceptic and introduces the radical innovation that the direct object of perceptual, and even dreaming and hallucinatory, experience is always a material object, but not necessarily one that actually exists. This leads him to a metaphysics in which reality is ultimately constructed by human decisions out of objects that are ontologically more basic but which cannot be said in themselves to be either real or unreal.
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