A relação entre experiência e justificação epistêmica: conceitualismo e não-conceitualismo

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the epistemic debate about the relation between sensory experience and empirical beliefs, that is, the discussion about how perceptual content relates to the content of beliefs. We conduct this analysis around the problem of the justification of empiric...

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Autor: Apolinário, Vinícius Francisco
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufes.br:10/16703
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/16703
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Teoria da justificação
Conteúdo mental
Conceitualismo
Não-conceitualismo
Conteúdo-cenário
Externalismo
subject.br-rjbn
Filosofia
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Sumario:The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the epistemic debate about the relation between sensory experience and empirical beliefs, that is, the discussion about how perceptual content relates to the content of beliefs. We conduct this analysis around the problem of the justification of empirical beliefs, based on two debates. One, of historical character, which provides the context for the debate, starting from the dispute between foundationalism and coherentism about the justification of knowledge. Another, of thematic character, in which conceptualists and non-conceptualists attempt to defend different positions on the nature of perceptual content and, based on this, its epistemological consequences. Our conclusion, having considered the main arguments mentioned in this debate, is in favor of the non-conceptualist thesis, more specifically, the scenario-content thesis as the appropriate model of perceptual content. On this basis, we consider that perception is a non-conceptual form of representation and does not need to maintain inferential relations with propositional attitudes; it is the basis of conceptual acquisition and development; it is a type of mental content shared by human adults and nonlinguistic creatures (infants and non-human animals); finally, it is a more informational rich kind of representation than conceptually structured states. We have suggested, finally, that the appropriate relationship between belief and perception is a non-inferential one. We proposed that the epistemic role of perception is to be the basis of application of empirical concepts, bringing non-conceptualism closer to epistemological externalism.