Intentionalism and Perceptual Knowledge

Proponents of moral perception hold that some of our moral knowledge is perceptual knowledge. Discussions of whether moral perception is possible often seem to assume that there is some attractive alternative account of how we arrive at moral knowledge in those cases that are regarded as among the best candidates for cases of full-fledged moral perception. This chapter challenges that assumption by critically examining some alternative accounts of how we arrive at knowledge in the relevant class of cases, arguing that the more closely one examines these alternative accounts, the more implausible they seem as accounts of how we actually manage to arrive at moral knowledge. A modest version of moral perception is sketched, one that does not suffer from any similarly implausible commitments. There are some concluding reflections on why it matters whether some of our moral knowledge is perceptual.

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Explaining Perceptual Knowledge

10.1093/oso/9780198809753.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Barry Stroud

Keyword(s):

Perceptual Experience ◽

External World ◽

Satisfactory Explanation ◽

Perceptual Knowledge ◽

Epistemological Problem ◽

The Way

This chapter offers a response to Quassim Cassam’s ‘Seeing and Knowing’, which challenges some of the conditions Cassam thinks the author has imposed on a satisfactory explanation of our knowledge of the external world. According to Cassam, the conditions he specifies can be fulfilled in ways that explain how the knowledge is possible. What is at stake in this argument between Cassam and the author is the conception of what is perceived to be so that is needed to account for the kind of perceptual knowledge we all know we have. That is what must be in question in any promising move away from the overly restrictive conception of perceptual experience that gives rise to the hopelessness of the traditional epistemological problem. The author suggests that we should explore the conditions of successful ‘propositional’ perception of the way things are and emphasizes the promise of such a strategy.

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The bifurcated conception of perceptual knowledge: a new solution to the basis problem for epistemological disjunctivism

Synthese ◽

10.1007/s11229-017-1590-x ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 196 (7) ◽

pp. 2871-2884

Author(s):

Kegan J. Shaw

Keyword(s):

Perceptual Knowledge ◽

Basis Problem ◽

Epistemological Disjunctivism

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Perceptual Knowledge, Discrimination, and Closure

Erkenntnis ◽

10.1007/s10670-018-0081-x ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 85 (6) ◽

pp. 1361-1378

Author(s):

Santiago Echeverri

Keyword(s):

Perceptual Knowledge

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Application of Study on Liquid Ablation in Laser Propulsion

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.644-650.4918 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 644-650 ◽

pp. 4918-4921

Author(s):

Cun Yan Cui

Keyword(s):

Stress Wave ◽

Physical Mechanism ◽

Elastic Stress ◽

Research Result ◽

Liquid Propellant ◽

Perceptual Knowledge ◽

Laser Propulsion ◽

Elastic Stress Wave

It was found that evaporation and thermal elastic stress wave and cavity were dominant phenomenon in laser-induced ablation propulsion with liquid propellant according to our perceptual knowledge established in relative experiment and by analysis of physical mechanism of laser-induced ablation of liquid. The research result of the above phenomenon was introduced in this paper in order to give some elicitations to the researchers who were interested in the mechanism of laser propulsion with liquid ablation.

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PHOTOGRAPHICALLY BASED KNOWLEDGE

Episteme ◽

10.1017/epi.2013.21 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 283-297 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dan Cavedon-Taylor

Keyword(s):

Pictorial Representation ◽

Perceptual Knowledge ◽

Testimonial Knowledge ◽

Epistemic Utility ◽

Sources Of Knowledge ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Aesthetic Pleasure ◽

Foundational Issue ◽

Do So

AbstractPictures are a quintessential source of aesthetic pleasure. This makes it easy to forget that they are epistemically valuable no less than they are aesthetically so. Pictures are representations. As such, they may furnish us with knowledge of the objects they represent. In this article I provide an account of why photographs are of greater epistemic utility than handmade pictures. To do so, I use a novel approach: I seek to illuminate the epistemic utility of photographs by situating both photographs and handmade pictures among the sources of knowledge. This method yields an account of photography's epistemic utility that better connects the issue with related issues in epistemology and is relatively superior to other accounts. Moreover, it answers a foundational issue in the epistemology of pictorial representation: ‘What kinds of knowledge do pictures furnish?’ I argue that photographs have greater epistemic utility than handmade pictures because photographs are sources of perceptual knowledge, while handmade pictures are sources of testimonial knowledge.

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Why Experimentum Crucis is Possible in Psychology of Perception

Gestalt Theory ◽

10.2478/gth-2018-0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 45-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michele Sinico

Keyword(s):

Psychological Research ◽

Perceptual Knowledge ◽

Experimental Phenomenology ◽

Phenomenology Of Perception ◽

Scientific Disciplines ◽

Isolated Systems ◽

High Degree ◽

Essential Assumption

Summary This paper examines the experimentum crucis under the light of the Duhem’s holistic thesis. This methodological instrument is not usable in physics, because physical theories are always logically connected to many assumptions. On the contrary, it is usable in psychological research oriented to perceptual laws, when these laws are, without any hypothetical term, isolated systems. An application of experimentum crucis in Experimental Phenomenology of perception is presented. In conclusion, the role of perceptual knowledge as an essential assumption in other scientific disciplines that have a high degree of theoricity is also underlined.

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