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Skepticism and the Veil of Perception (Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory (Unnumbered).)
Michael Huemer · 2001 · 217 pages
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This book develops and defends a version of direct realism: the thesis that perception gives us direct awareness, and non-inferential knowledge, of the external world. Huemer rebuts the main arguments used by philosophical skeptics to try to show that we cannot know anything about the world outside of the mind, as well as the arguments used by representationalists to try to show that we only perceive representations of external objects.
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