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Perception and Basic Beliefs: Zombies, Modules, and the Problem of the External World
- J. Lyons
- Psychology
- 20 January 2009
Abbreviations Chapter 1: External Object Foundationalism 1.1The Problem of the External World 1.2 Metaphysical and Epistemological Direct Realisms 1.3 Basic Beliefs Chapter 2: Doxastic and… Expand
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CIRCULARITY, RELIABILITY, AND THE COGNITIVE PENETRABILITY OF PERCEPTION
- J. Lyons
- Psychology
- 1 October 2011
Is perception cognitively penetrable, and what are the epistemological consequences if it is? I address the latter of these two questions, partly by reference to recent work by Athanassios… Expand
Carving the Mind at its (Not Necessarily Modular) Joints
- J. Lyons
- Computer Science
- The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- 1 June 2001
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Evidence, experience, and externalism
- J. Lyons
- Philosophy
- 22 July 2008
The Sellarsian dilemma is a famous argument that attempts to show that nondoxastic experiential states cannot confer justification on basic beliefs. The usual conclusion of the Sellarsian dilemma is… Expand
Epistemological Problems of Perception
- J. Lyons
- Psychology
- 5 December 2016
The central problem in the epistemology of perception is that of explaining how perception could give us knowledge of an external world. Although this is a perfectly intelligible and pressing… Expand
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Perceptual Belief and Nonexperiential Looks
- J. Lyons
- Psychology
- 1 December 2005
How things look (or sound, taste, smell, etc.) plays two important roles in the epistemology of perception. 1 First, our perceptual beliefs are episte-mically justified, at least in part, in virtue… Expand
Perception and Virtue Reliabilism
- J. Lyons
- Philosophy
- 12 November 2009
In some recent work, Ernest Sosa rejects the “perceptual model” of rational intuition, according to which intuitive beliefs (e.g., that $$ 2 + 2 = 4 $$) are justified by standing in the appropriate… Expand
Experiential evidence?
- J. Lyons
- 2016
Much of the intuitive appeal of evidentialism results from conflating two importantly different conceptions of evidence. This is most clear in the case of perceptual justification, where experience… Expand
General Rules and the Justification of Probable Belief in Hume's Treatise
- J. Lyons
- Philosophy
- 2001
By the conclusion of Book I of the Treatise, Hume faces something of a dilemma. Because of the skeptical arguments of part 4, he is "ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no… Expand
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