Rzetelność percepcji zmysłowej. Stanowisko Wiliama P. Alstona

• Authors: Dolak Marcin

Title variants

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THE RELIABILITY OF SENSE PERCEPTION. WILLIAM P. ALSTON’S POSITION

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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This paper presents William P. Alston’s position on the reliability of sense perception. Alston claims that sense perception is one of the doxastic practices which yields beliefs about the physical world. He tries to show that sense perception is reliable – that it forms mostly true beliefs about the world. His argument consists of two steps. Firstly, he argues that it is impossible to show the reliability of sense perception without epistemic circularity. Secondly, he presents a practical argument for the reliability of sense perception. Through my reconstruction and evaluation of his argument I conclude that it is ineffective in testing the reliability of sense perception.

Keywords

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ALSTON; RELIABILITY; SENSE PERCEPTION; DOXASTIC PRACTICES; EPISTEMIC CIRCULARITY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 129-140

Contributors

author

Dolak Marcin

• Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Wydział Filozofii, al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland