A Theory of Sentience

ISBN-13: 9780198238515 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 304 str.

Austen Clark

Opis

Austen Clark offers a general account of the forms of mental representation that we call "sensory." Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark defends the hypothesis that the various modalities of sensation share a generic form that he calls "feature-placing." Sensing proceeds by picking out place-times in or around the body of the sentient organism, and characterizing qualities (features) that appear at those place-times. The hypothesis casts light on many other troublesome phenomena, including the varieties of illusion, the problem of projection, the notion of a visual field, and the existence of sense-data.

Recenzje

There is much of interest to cognitive scientists working on the intentionality of sensation.

O autorze

Austen Clark is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.