Possibilities of perception / Jennifer Church.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Church, Jennifer, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy).

Perception.

Psychophysiology.

Instinct.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 284 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jennifer Church presents a new account of perception, which shows how imagining alternative perspectives and possibilities plays a key role in creating and validating experiences of self-evident objectivity. She explores the nature of moral perception and aesthetic perception, and argues that perception can be both literal and substantive.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Perception and the Experience of Objectivity

1. Perceiving and Knowing

2. Immediacy and its Problems

3. Self-evidence and the Experience of Objectivity

4.A Sensory Requirement?

Chapter 2: The Role of the Imagination

1. The Need for Active Imagining

2. The Evidence for Imagining

3. Imagining and Imagery

4. The Validation of Imagination

5. Conclusion

Chapter 3: Perceiving Reasons

1. Reasons and Explanatory Relations

2. Perceiving Causes

3. Perceiving Constituents as Reasons

4. Perceiving Justificatory Reasons

5. The "Space of Reasons"

6. The Advantages of Perceiving Reasons

7. Conclusion

Chapter 4: The Further Reaches of Perception

1. Perceiving Remote States of Affairs

2. Perceiving Future States of Affairs

3. Perceiving Abstract States of Affairs

4. Rational Perception

-Lessons from Plato and Descartes

Chapter 5: Moral Perception

1. Standard Commitments of Perceptual Theories

2. Perceiving Persons as Persons

3. Uncanniness and Ambivalence

4. Perceiving What to Do

5. Back to Kant

6. Conclusion

Chapter 6: Aesthetic Perception

1. The Objects of Aesthetic Perception

2. The Process of Aesthetic Perception

3. The Double Consciousness of Aesthetic Perception

4. Aestheticizing Morality and Moralizing Aesthetics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 21, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-166786-2

OCLC:

854577856