The epistemic significance of perceptual learning

Elijah Chudnoff

doi:10.1080/0020174X.2017.1357496

The epistemic significance of perceptual learning

Elijah Chudnoff

Philosophy

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Abstract

First impressions suggest the following contrast between perception and memory: perception generates new beliefs and reasons, justification, or evidence for those beliefs; memory preserves old beliefs and reasons, justification, or evidence for those beliefs. In this paper, I argue that reflection on perceptual learning gives us reason to adopt an alternative picture on which perception plays both generative and preservative epistemic roles.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-23
Number of pages	23
Journal	Inquiry (United Kingdom)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2017.1357496
State	Accepted/In press - Jul 29 2017

Keywords

immediate justification
inference
memory
perceptual content
Perceptual justification
perceptual learning

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Health Policy

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