Does perception have content? / edited by Berit Brogaard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brogaard, Berit, editor.

Series:

Philosophy of mind series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 377 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is a collection of new essays by leading researchers in the area of perception addressing fundamental questions about the nature of perceptual content. The primary focus of the volume is on the question of whether perception has content.

Contents:

Introduction: Does perception have content? / Berit Brogaard

Part 1. Content views

Empirical problems with anti-representationalism / Bence Nanay

Affordances and the contents of perception / Susanna Siegel

Looks, reasons, and experiences / Kathrin Glüer

Part 2. Against strong content

The problem with the content view / Mark Johnston

The preserve of thinkers / Charles Travis

Disjunctivism, discrimination, and categorization / Diana Raffman

Part 3. Reconciliatory views

The relational and representational character of perceptual experience / Susanna Schellenbert

Experiential content and naive realism: a reconciliation / Heather Logue

Love in the time of cholera / Benj Hellie

Part 4. Imagistic and possible-word content

Image content / Mohan Matthen

What is the content of a hallucinatory experience? / Michael Tye

Part 5. The constituents of perceptual content and the role of perception

What does vision represent? / William G. Lycan

Phenomenal intentionality and secondary qualities: the Quixotic case of color / Terry Horgan

Which causes of an experience are also objects of the experience? / Tomasz Budek and Katalin Farkas.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-939525-X