Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental …
Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation. In A Mark of the Mental, Karen …
The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality. In the second edition of this popular book, William Fish introduces the …
N Block - Philosophical issues, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Much of recent philosophy of perception is oriented towards accounting for the phenomenal character of perception—what it is like to perceive—in a non‐mentalistic way—that is …
Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. Extant discussions of …
The idea of representation has been central in discussions of intentionality for many years. But only more recently has it begun playing a wider role in the philosophy of mind …
Intentionalism is the view according to which the phenomenal character of an experience supervenes on the content of this experience. There are many versions of intentionalism, but …
F Macpherson - The senses: Classic and contemporary philosophical …, 2011 - sfu.ca
Individuating the Senses final introduction version as per the revied copy minus the changes showing copy Page 1 Forthcoming in F. Macpherson (ed.) The Senses: Classic and …
A Farennikova - Philosophical studies, 2013 - Springer
Intuitively, we often see absences. For example, if someone steals your laptop at a café, you may see its absence from your table. However, absence perception presents a paradox. On …