2026 is the 40th anniversary of this important publication on the foundations of epistemology.
“This book is a highly original defense of realism. David Kelley argues that perception is the discrimination of objects as entities, that the awareness of these objects is direct, and that perception is a reliable foundation for empirical knowledge. Kelley’s argument relies on the basic principle of the ‘primacy of existence,’ in opposition to Cartesian representation and Kantian idealism.”
The book is available at Amazon.
My review from 1989 is available in audio in MP3 format or at YouTube or in PDF text form here or at the Auslegung journal site.
Related: My essay“Objectivity for Actual Human Beings.” SSRN site.