Perceptual content / William G. Lycan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lycan, William G., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation.

Senses and sensation--Philosophy.

Perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'Perceptual Content' discusses and compares the representational characters of all the traditional 'five senses'. It has three main topics or concerns. (1) The diversity of the senses: though Lycan maintains as a working assumption that all perception represents, the similarity between sense modalities ends there. The senses' respective representational modes, styles and structures - not just their mechanisms - differ very strongly from each other. (2) The Layering thesis: Lycan argues that a single sensory representation usually has more than one content, the contents systematically related to each other by a priority or dependence relation. More specifically, a perceptual state may represent one object or property by representing a more primitive or less ambitious one; he calls this the 'layering' of content.

Contents:

Cover

Perceptual Content

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: REPRESENTATION BY THE CHEMICAL SENSES

1: The Intentionality of Smell

1. The Case Against

2. Rebuttal

3. The Thesis

4. The Case For

5. What Does It Represent?

6. What about the Environmental Objects?

2: What Does Taste Represent?

1. Taste vs Flavor

2. The Problem of Representing "Intensity"/Concentration

3. Taste and the Person

4. Reconsidering Representing

5. Conclusion

Afterword on Consciousness

PART II: LAYERING

3: Introduction to Perceptual Layering

1. The Trees

2. The Bottom Layer

4: What Does Vision Represent?

1. Conservative Views vs Liberal

2. Intractability of the Dispute

3. Denying the Presupposition

4. Siegel's Method

5. More Substantive Objections to Siegel's Method

6. Layering

7. Aspect Perception vs Layering

5: What Is It We Touch?

1. Ways in Which Touch Differs

2. Individuating the Senses

3. Commonsense Objects of Touch

4. "What Touch Represents": Preliminaries

5. What Touch Represents

6. Heat and Cold

7. Tactual Consciousness and Experience

PART III: BEYOND LAYERING

6: Complications

1. Ecologism

2. Two Problems

3. Interlude: Apologetic Recantation

4. Perceptual vs Cognitive

5. Inference and Concepts

6. Limits on Distal Layering

7. Ordinary Language vs Layering

8. Psychosemantics

7: Multimodality

1. Smell, Taste, and Flavor

2. Two Other Examples

3. Proprioception

4. A General Question about Multimodality and Consciousness

5. Summing Up

PART IV: ASPECT PERCEPTION

8: Philosophy and the Duck-Rabbit

1. The Puzzle

2. Received Wisdom from Wittgenstein, and Some Hope

3. Interlude: Aspect Perception and the Representational Theory

4. Getting Away from Vision

9: Hearing As

1. What Audition Represents

2. Continuing Assumptions

3. Auditory Aspect Perception

4. Further Subtypes of Auditory Aspect Perception

5. Music

6. Music and Emotion

7. Speech

8. Force

9. Epilogue

Conclusion

APPENDIX: "The Slighting of Smell" (1989/2000)

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 5, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-19-196804-8

OCLC:

1416892743