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 …

Perception is, at least sometimes, something we do. This paper is concerned with how to
account for perceptual agency (ie, the active aspect of perception). Eilan divides accounts of …

Agents are continually faced with two related selection problems: i) the problem of selecting
what to do from a space of possible behaviours; ii) the problem of selecting what to attend to …

Attention seems to raise a problem for pure representationalism, the view that phenomenal
content supervenes on representational content. The problem is that shifts of attention …

According to 'orthodox'representationalism, perceptual states possess constitutive
veridicality (truth, accuracy, or satisfaction) conditions. Typically, philosophers who deny …

Perceiving things to be a certain way may in some cases lead directly to action that is
intelligent (eg, skillful, wise, clever, astute). This phenomenon has not often been discussed …

Most representationalist accounts of visual perception hold that visual representations are
belief—or judgement-like sensory staates with veridicality or accuracy conditions. In a word …

Abstract Language, maps, pictures, and models all exhibit “intentionality”—they're “about”
something. Many philosophers hold that the intentionality of these sorts of representations …

Phenomenology and strands of Buddhist philosophy hold that consciousness, as well as
involving other-luminosity (object-directed intentionality), also involves self-luminosity (pre …

This paper introduces a novel thesis about mental imagery; namely, that it is grease for the
mind's gears (MGT). MGT is not a vague analogy. Rather, it outlines an important and …