Read about it.įirst, I very much enjoyed this reading and listening to the accompanying podcast. Buy World of Perception, or read online.Įnd song: "Write Me Off" by Mark Lint and the Simulacra.
Is M-P just saying that scientific knowledge is defeasible, which scientists already believe? Read more about this topic.īuy "The Primacy of Perception and its Philosophical Consequences," or read it online. Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan argue over whether this thesis is just a bunch of truisms and despair over not having read The Phenomenology of Perception, the longer work which what we did read was meant to summarize.
art, can equally well give us knowledge, though of a different kind. Science is great, but it doesn't discover the truth of things hiding behind perception: it is an abstraction from certain kinds of perceptions. What is the relation of perception to knowledge? In M-P's phenomenology, perception is primary: even our knowledge of mathematical truths is in some way conditioned by and dependent on the fact that we are creatures with bodies and senses that work the way they do.
Or become a PEL Citizen for $5 a month, and get access to this and all other paywalled episodes, including 68 back catalogue episodes exclusive Part 2's for episodes published after September, 2020 and our after-show Nightcap, where the guys respond to listener email and chat more causally.ĭiscussing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Primacy of Perception" (1946) and The World of Perception (1948).
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