Abstract

Abstract These responses are replies to the contributions to a book symposium devoted to my book Knowing and Seeing. Groundwork for a New Empiricism (2019), held at the University of Vienna in February 2020.

Highlights

  • The Argument of Knowing and SeeingFirst, thanks to all who have contributed the thought-provoking articles to which I must respond

  • I will start with a brief summary of the central argument of Knowing and Seeing, an argument initially motivated by a longstanding sense that too much recent and current epistemology in the analytic tradition has been founded on a couple of damaging errors

  • It was widely accepted that Edmund Gettier, in demonstrating that belief can be both true and justified without constituting knowledge, had refuted the ‘traditional’ or ‘standard’ definition or ‘analysis’ of knowledge as justified true belief, setting philosophers the task of finding a better definition (Gettier 1963)

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The Argument of Knowing and Seeing

Thanks to all who have contributed the thought-provoking articles to which I must respond. Much for the skeleton of my main argument, which is ‘groundwork for a new empiricism’, as my subtitle has it, in that it is offered as a fresh explanation of the authority of the senses, and is focussed on the basic, pre-theoretical, preconceptual, purely perceptual knowledge of our environment and our place in it afforded by their deliverances – knowledge of a kind that according to sceptics, old-fashioned rationalists, and conceptualists, for their different, but related reasons, we don’t and cannot have, but which, for my ‘new empiricist’, is a precondition of our having any knowledge at all, and upon which we rely throughout our daily lives. The article by Sofia Miguens and Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum offers an independent view of the debate

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