The phenomenal and the representational / Jeff Speaks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Speaks, Jeffrey, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Representation (Philosophy).

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title is about two kinds of properties of perceiving subjects: their phenomenal properties, and their representational properties. It focuses on three questions: What are phenomenal properties? What are representational properties? What is the relationship between phenomenal and representational properties?

Contents:

Pt. I Two Kinds of Properties of Subjects

1.Phenomenal Properties

2.Representational Properties

pt. II From Transparency to Intentionalism

3.Varieties of Intentionalism

4.Transparency

5.Two Impossible Scenarios

6.Phenomenism and Phenomenal Variance

7.The Interpersonal Constraint, the Time Constraint, and the Memory Constraint

8.Phenomenal Variance and Property Variance

9.Extending the Argument to Other Phenomenal States

pt. III Intermodal Intentionalism and Nonconceptual Content

10.Belief and Intermodal Intentionalism

11.Direct Arguments for Nonconceptualism

12.A Dilemma for Fregeanism about Sensed Contents

13.Frege's Puzzle and the Content of Thought

pt. IV The Metaphysics of Representational Properties

14.Properties and the Nature of Russellian Contents

15.Properties and the Attitudes

pt. V Availability and the Scope of Perceptual Representation

16.Availability

17.Demonstratives and the Availability Requirement

18.The Perceptual Representation of Objects

19.The Problem of Contingently Existing Contents

20.The Perceptual Representation of Natural Kinds

21.Independence, Fallibility, Anti-Circularity

22.Appearance Properties

23.Relativist Views of Sensible Qualities

pt. VI How Many Phenomenal Relations?

24.Phenomenal Relations

25.The Distinctions Between the Senses

26.Binding and Bodily Sensations

27.Shifts in Attention

pt. VII Phenomenal Identity and Indiscriminability

28.Identifying Phenomenal and Representational Properties

29.Phenomenal Content

30.Phenomenal Content and Phenomenal Continua

31.Perceptual Constancies and Phenomenal Match

32.Phenomenal Content and the Representation of Change

33.Indiscriminable Phenomenal Properties

pt. VIII The Reduction of Phenomenal Properties

34.Two Kinds of Theories of Phenomenal Properties

35.Functionalist Theories of Content

36.Functionalist Definitions of Phenomenal Relations

37.Identity Theories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 21, 2015).

ISBN:

0-19-179678-6