دانلود کتاب Possibilities of Perception

The epistemology and the phenomenology of perception are closely related insofar as both depend on experiences of self-evident objectivity--experiences in which the objectivity of a state of affairs is evident from within our experience of that state of affairs. Jennifer Church offers a distinctive account of perception, showing how imagining alternative perspectives and alternative possibilities plays a key role in creating and validating experiences ofself-evident objectivity. She explores the phenomenology and epistemology of moral perception, and the peculiarities of aesthetic perception, and argues that perception can be literal (not merely figurative ormetaphorical) and substantive (not merely formal or deflationary). Her account helps to explain the advantages of perceptual versus non-perceptual knowledge, and helps make sense of some historical discussions of the role of the imagination in acquiring and validating knowledge.