Perception and Reality in Kant Husserl and McDowell

<p>How does perception give us access to external reality? This book critically engages with John McDowell’s conceptualist answer to this question by offering a new exploration of his views on perception and reality in relation to those of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl.</p><p>In six chapters the book examines these thinkers’ respective theories of perception lucidly describing how they fit within their larger philosophical views on mind and reality. It thereby not only reveals the continuity of a tradition that underlies today’s fragmented scholarly landscape but also yields a new critique of McDowell’s conceptualist theory. In doing so the book contributes to the ongoing bridging of traditions by combining analytic philosophy Kantian philosophy and phenomenology.</p><p><i>Perception and Reality in Kant Husserl and McDowell </i>will appeal to scholars and students working in the history of philosophy phenomenology Kantian philosophy and in particular the philosophy of perception.</p>