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Publication details

Verlag: Springer

Ort: Berlin

Jahr: 2009

Pages: 5-19

Reihe: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

ISBN (Hardback): 9781402093371

Volle Referenz:

Alan Musgrave, "Experience and perceptual belief", in: Rethinking Popper, Berlin, Springer, 2009

Abstrakt

Are perceptual experiences reasons for perceptual beliefs? The act/ content ambiguity of the term "belief" carries over to this question. I argue, following Popper, that experiences are reasons as well as causes for belief-acts, but not for belief-contents. This involves rejecting justificationism, the mistaken view that a reason for a belief-act must be a reason for its content. Popper's many critics presuppose justificationism, and so miss the main point of his solution to the problem of the empirical basis of science.

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Publication details

Verlag: Springer

Ort: Berlin

Jahr: 2009

Pages: 5-19

Reihe: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

ISBN (Hardback): 9781402093371

Volle Referenz:

Alan Musgrave, "Experience and perceptual belief", in: Rethinking Popper, Berlin, Springer, 2009