Perception and Reason (Paperback, New edition)

Bill Brewer sets out an original view of the role of conscious experience in the acquisition of knowledge. He argues that experiences must provide reasons for beliefs if there are to be any beliefs about the mind-independent world at all: experiences are essential to a person's grasping certain thoughts about the world, and simply grasping these provides him with a reason to believe that the world is as he thereby thinks it is.