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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"sense perception"”.
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A "Veritable Jekyll and Hyde" - Epistemic Circularity and Reliabilist Theories of Justification
… examples of BFMs available to human beings are sense perception, memory, and deduction. Epistemic circularity is a notorious problem for reliabilism. If a belief is only justified if it was produced reliably by a certain BFM, how can I ever know for sure that a certain BFM is itself reliable? …
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The role of sensus communis in Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Locke and Kant
… he examined the function of each peripheral sense-organ of sight, hearing, smiling, tasting and touch, he proceeded to the analysis of the "Sensus Communis," which discriminates between these particular perceptions which are perceived by the five senses and unites them into perceptual wholes. …
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Descartes' Slight and Metaphysical Doubt
… from doubt. Just as he must show that reason and sense perception are sources of knowledge because they can withstand his skeptical challenges, he must also show that introspection is equally indubitable. To this end, he constructs the strongest arguments he can from the perspective of a skeptic …
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Natural realism : the world and the mind according to Aquinas, Dretske, and Putnam
… the presence of representations at the levels of perception and conceptualization, and both begin with external objects and move inward to sense perception, conceptualization, and the mind's knowledge of itself. However, their accounts of what the mind is differ sharply, in that Dretske holds a …
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An Investigation of Craft Practice in the Design of Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles) for Embodied Interaction
… examines embodiment, meaning creation and sense perception for comprehending the nature of experience. It discusses commentators such as McCarthy and Wright to recommend expressions of felt human life as a vehicle for enhanced relations with technology. The methodology generates knowledge …
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Nothing but the truth: the Sufi testament of 'Aziz Nasafi
… of knowledge available to Sufis, which includes sense perception, reason and mystical knowledge. Nasafi's presentation depicts all three in a hierarchical structure with Sufi knowledge at the pinnacle. Having discussed the theoretical nature of Sufism, chapter four deals with the practical …
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Emporium
… essay thus pursues the themes of materiality and sense perception that are vital to the poems, elaborating on relevant aspects of intellectual history and poetic practice that have conditioned their formal concerns or which throw them into relief.</p>
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Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
… philosophical concepts: respectively, vision and sense perception, time and space, and history.<br><p> <italic>Imagined Islands'</italic> Introduction establishes, (1) the stakes of a project undertaken from an immanent perspective set in the Caribbean; (2) the method, inspired chiefly by Kamau …
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Kant on Embodiment: Lessons from the Critique of Pure Reason and the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
… First, the unifying structures required for sense perception could not be applied without embodied activity. Second, empirical self-consciousness depends on embodied activity in relation to objects in space. Third, scientific knowledge is made possible only through bodily activity, which …
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Lingering Atmospheres: Collaborations between Architecture, Craft, Music, Landscape, and Film in Peter Zumthor’s Gesamtkunstwerk
… Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Work of Art). If sense perception is understood as fundamentally multisensory in nature, and the experience of architecture is dependent on the people, situations, and events it houses, how might we re-examine occularcentric and unidisciplinary narratives of …
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Seeing the good : moral perception in Aristotle's "Nicomachean ethics".
… or goodness of moral actions and agents. This perception (aisthēsis), which I call "moral perception," serves as a foundation for the attainment of moral truth, making possible prudent deliberation and an understanding of what is good or bad, just or unjust, noble or base. While moral …
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Thomas Hobbes and the reception of early-modern Epicureanism
… of Hobbes's ontology and his ensuing doctrine of sense-perception. Thereby, it shows how Hobbes developed a materialist account of body and sensation independently from Gassendi. The last two chapters centre on morality and politics. They demonstrate how Hobbes's ethical and political doctrine …
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The senses and synaesthesia in Horace's Satires
… Book 2 c. 30 BCE) through a lens of the body’s senses and organs involved in perception (eyes, ears, noses, mouths, hands, and tongues). Horace manipulates a multitude of bodies throughout his poetry, each contributing a different sensory experience, as a medium for representing and …
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Memory, Phantasia, and the Perception of Time: A Commentary on Aristotle’s De Memoria Et Reminiscentia
… before. By rejecting as memorable in a governing sense any object that does not include the remembering subject’s past activity, Aristotle is able to allow for lesser ways of speaking about memory, thereby allowing for a comprehensive account. Second, because memory is of the absent past, …
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Expert Evidence, Juries and the Search for Truth: A Case Study Analysis
… as to the wide disparity between ‘common-sense perception’ and current science. As such, the jury is deprived of expert opinion that may better enable its decision-making. The recommendation is made that both the Turnbull direction given in visual identification cases, and the modified …
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Sociality and the Mystical Theology of ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (d. 1143/1731)
… to external etiquettes and simply involving sense-perception (learning), or seemingly profane (interaction with youth) are rooted in much deeper theological, spiritual and mystical considerations. Researching the above topics in this way presents Nābulusī in a sophisticated manner and …