Motivation and the primacy of perception : Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of knowledge
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Motivation and the primacy of perception : Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of knowledge
（Series in continental thought / editorial board, Lester Embree ... [et al.], no. 54）
Ohio University Press, c2021
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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Kentucky, 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological notion of motivation advances a compelling alternative to the empiricist and rationalist assumptions that underpin modern epistemology.
Arguing that knowledge is ultimately founded in perceptual experience, Peter Antich interprets and defends Merleau-Ponty's thinking on motivation as the key to establishing a new form of epistemic grounding. Upending the classical dichotomy between reason and natural causality, justification and explanation, Antich shows how this epistemic ground enables Merleau-Ponty to offer a radically new account of knowledge and its relation to perception. In so doing, Antich demonstrates how and why Merleau-Ponty remains a vital resource for today's epistemologists.
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