How Long to Read Berkeley's Puzzle

How Long Does it Take to Read Berkeley's Puzzle?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Berkeley's Puzzle by John Campbell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge and conception of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: even if the things we experience (apples, tables, trees, etc), are mind-independent how does our sensory experience of them enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? George Berkeley thought that sensory experience can only provide us with the conception of mind-dependent things, things which cannot exist when they aren't being perceived. It's easy to dismiss Berkeley's conclusion but harder to see how to avoid it. In this book, John Campbell and Quassim Cassam propose very different solutions to Berkeley's Puzzle. For Campbell, sensory experience can be the basis of our knowledge of mind-independent things because it is a relation, more primitive than thought, between the perceiver and high-level objects and properties in the mind-independent world. Cassam opposes this 'relationalist' solution to the Puzzle and defends a 'representationalist' solution: sensory experience can give us the conception of mind-independent things because it represents its objects as mind-independent, but does so without presupposing concepts of mind-independent things. This book is written in the form of a debate between two rival approaches to understanding the relationship between concepts and sensory experience. Although Berkeley's Puzzle frames the debate, the questions addressed by Campbell and Cassam aren't just of historical interest. They are among the most fundamental questions in philosophy.

How long is Berkeley's Puzzle?

Berkeley's Puzzle by John Campbell is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Berkeley's Puzzle Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Berkeley's Puzzle aloud.

What Reading Level is Berkeley's Puzzle?

Berkeley's Puzzle is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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