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Defeating looks
pp. 2985-3012
Abstrakt
In previous work, I have suggested a doxastic account of perceptual experience according to which experiences form a (peculiar) kind of belief: Beliefs with what I have called “phenomenal” or “looks-content”. I have argued that this account can not only accommodate the intuitive reason providing role of experience, but also its justificatory role. I have also argued that, in general, construing experience and perceptual beliefs, i.e. the beliefs most directly based on experience, as having different contents best accounts for the defeasibility of experiential reasons. In this paper, I shall have a closer look at the evidential or inferential relation between looks-propositions and the contents of perceptual beliefs and argue for a form of what I shall call “Pollockianism” about experiential reasons: such reasons are good unless defeated. Questions to be investigated include: Does the resulting picture of perceptual justification contain an externalist element? Is it compatible with Bayesianism? And how does it do with respect to problems that have been raised for other forms of Pollockianism such as dogmatism or phenomenal conservatism?
Publication details
Published in:
Moretti Luca, Piazza Tommaso (2018) Defeaters in current epistemology. Synthese 195 (7).
Seiten: 2985-3012
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1186-x
Referenz:
Glüer Kathrin (2018) „Defeating looks“. Synthese 195 (7), 2985–3012.