Showing, sensing, & seeming : distinctively sensory representations and their contents / Dominic Gregory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregory, Dominic.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sense (Philosophy).

Senses and sensation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Certain representations are bound in special ways to our sensory capacities. What do these representations have in common, and what makes them different from representations of other kinds? Dominic Gregory employs novel ideas on perceptual states and sensory perspectives to explain the special nature of distinctively sensory representations.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Things to Explain""; ""2. Matters of Perspective""; ""3. A Theory of Distinctively Sensory Content""; ""4. Applications and Extensions""; ""5. Mental Images""; ""6. Pictures""; ""7. More on Pictures""; ""8. Distinctively Sensory Records""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-880007-X

0-19-176129-X

0-19-150267-7

OCLC:

864551667