Introduction; 1. Defensible Knowledge and Exemplars Representation; 2. Perceptual Knowledge of the External World; 3. Knowledge, Autonomy, and Exemplars; 4. Exemplars, Truth, and Scientific Revolution; 5. Intuition and Coherence in the Keystone Loop; Epilogue; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.
Summary
The monograph explains how knowledge requires the capacity to justify or defend the target claim of knowledge. Defensibility is based on a background system. Lehrer argues that reflection on experience yields a self-referential exemplar representation.This is the novel contribution of his new book to truth about the perceptual world.