Research Catalog

Title

Acquaintance : new essays / edited by Jonathan Knowles and Thomas Raleigh.

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Knowles, Jonathan, 1967-
• Raleigh, Thomas

Description

vi, 298 pages : illustration; 25 cm

Summary

"Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'. For much of the latter half of the twentieth century, many philosophers viewed the notion of acquaintance with suspicion, associating it with Russellian ideas that they would wish to reject. However in the past decade or two the concept has undergone a striking revival in mainstream 'analytic' philosophy-acquaintance is, it seems, respectable again. This volume showcases the great variety of topics in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language for which philosophers are currently employing the notion of acquaintance. It is the first collection of new essays devoted to the topic of acquaintance, featuring chapters from many of the world's leading experts in this area. Opening with an extensive introductory essay, which provides some historical background and summarizes the main debates and issues concerning acquaintance, the remaining thirteen contributions are grouped thematically into four sections: phenomenal consciousness, perceptual experience, reference, and epistemology.

Subjects

• Essays
• Perception (Philosophy)
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Wissen
• Bewusstsein
• Wahrnehmung

Genre/Form

Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acquaintance is consciousness and consciousness is acquaintance / Joseph Levine -- Natural acquaintance / Sam Coleman -- What acquaintance teaches / Alex Grzankowski and Michael Tye -- Betwixt feeling and thinking: two-level accounts of experience / M. G. F. Martin -- Acquaintance in an experience of perception-cum-action / David Woodruff Smith -- Dreaming, phenomenal character, and acquaintance / Tom Stoneham -- Rationalism, Berkeley's puzzle, and phenomenological externalism / Jonathan Knowles -- Acquaintance, conceptual capacities, and attention / Anders Nes -- Acquaintance as grounded in joint attention / John Campbell -- Principles of acquaintance / Jessica Pepp -- Acquaintance, the foundation of knowledge and thought / Richard Fumerton -- Objectual knowledge / Katalin Farkas -- Visual experience, revelation, and the three Rs / Bill Brewer.

Call Number

JFE 21-323

ISBN

• 9780198803461
• 019880346X

LCCN

2019953447

OCLC

1101776133

Title

Acquaintance : new essays / edited by Jonathan Knowles and Thomas Raleigh.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First Edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Knowles, Jonathan, 1967- editor.

Raleigh, Thomas, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-323