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Bill Brewer sets out an original view of the role of conscious experience in the acquisition of knowledge. He argues that experiences must provide reasons for beliefs if there are to be any beliefs about the mind-independent world at all: experiences are essential to a person's grasping certain thoughts about the world, and simply grasping these provides him with a reason to believe that the world is as he thereby thinks it is.

Knowledge, Theory of. --- Perception (Philosophy) --- Experience. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Reality --- Pragmatism --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- #BIBC:ruil --- Perception (Philosophy). --- Experience --- Knowledge [Theory of ] --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Perception

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The metaphysics of ordinary objects is an increasingly vibrant field of study for philosophers. This volume gathers insights from a number of leading authors, who together tackle the central issues in contemporary debates about the subject. Their essays engage with topics including composition, persistence, perception, categories, images, artifacts, truthmakers, metaontology, and the relationship between the manifest and scientific images. Exploring the nature of everyday things, the contributors situate their arguments and the latest research against the background of the field's development. Moreover, many essays propose new ideas and approaches, looking ahead to the future of the metaphysical study of ordinary objects. Featuring numerous clearly explained examples and with thoughtful links drawn to other, related disciplines such as pragmatism, this wide-ranging volume fills a major gap in the literature and will be important for scholars working in metaphysics.

Object (Philosophy) --- Ontology. --- Metaphysics. --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Being --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy)