The Presentation of Reality

Originally published in 1910, this book attempts to describe knowledge from the point of view of a philosophical psychology.

Helen Wodehouse (Author)

9781107426177, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 September 2014

174 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 0.9 cm, 0.18 kg

Originally published in 1910, this book attempts to describe knowledge from the point of view of a philosophical psychology. Wodehouse treats the text as a 'psychological preface to metaphysics', and splits her examination into three sections: knowledge as resulting from judgements in the actual world; the philosophical problem of fallible knowledge; and the question of imagination and 'the variousness of reality'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Wodehouse's work or in the overlap of psychology and philosophy.

Introduction
Part I. Knowledge: 1. Knowledge as presentation
2. Content and object
3. The fields of presentation I
4. The fields of presentation II
5. The fields of presentation III
6. Defence of the presentation of reality in sense
7. Defence of the presentation of reality in thought
8. Illustrative and additional: the apprehension of feeling
Part II. Error: 9. Is any knowledge infallible?
10. Error and the real
Part III. The Many-Mansioned Universe: 11. The variousness of reality
12. Assumptions
13. The mutual relations of judgment, apprehension, assumption, and doubt
Part IV. Conclusion: 14. The presentation of reality
Index.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]