Perception and justification

old_uid8151
titlePerception and justification
start_date2010/02/12
schedule14h30-16h30
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summaryI have defended a belief theory of perceptual experience: Perceptual experience, or so I argue, is best understood as a kind of belief. Such beliefs have what I call phenomenal contents, contents like ‘that x looks ed’ or ‘that it looks as if there was something square in front of me’. Crucially, this allows us to understand experience as providing defeasible inferential reasons for (further) belief. In this talk, I shall look at this account from an epistemological perspective: What is it for experience to provide - not only reasons, but - justification for (further) belief ?
responsiblesPacherie, Dokic, Proust