Table of Contents

Preface
Part I: Knowledge, Belief and Perception
1: Michael Ayers and Maria Rosa Antognazza: Knowledge and belief from Plato to Locke
2: Perception and primary knowledge.
3: Conceptualism and perceptual knowledge
4: Internal and external objects of cognition
Part II: Philosophical Scepticism
5: Scepticism, certainty and defeasibility
6: Scepticism and Externalism
7: Conclusions

About the Author

Michael Ayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of Academia Europea. He was elected as Tutorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, in 1965, and remained there, later as Reader and Professor, until retiring in 2002. Over the course of his career, Ayers has also had several visiting appointments at universities in the USA, including Berkeley. He has published widely on the history and
historiography of philosophy, especially of epistemology.

Reviews

absorbing . . . extraordinarily rich . . . I hope enough has been said to give a sense of the major accomplishment that Knowing and Seeing represents, and of the major benefits contemporary epistemology stands to reap from taking it seriously.
*Johannes Roessler, Mind*

immensely rich and inspiring
*Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum and Mira Magdalena Sickinger, Grazer Philosophische Studien*

Ayers's book contains a wealth of claims and arguments of interest to epistemologists and philosophers of mind
*Simon Wimmer, Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur*