Perception, Cognition and Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781032178134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 360 str.

Dena Shottenkirk; Manuel Curado; Steven S. Gouveia

Opis

This volume addresses key questions related to how content in thought is derived from perceptual experience. It includes chapters that focus on single issues on perception and cognition, as well as others that relate these issues to an important social construct that involves both perceptual experience and cognitive activities: aesthetics.

Spis treści

Introduction

Dena Shottenkirk, Steven S. Gouveia and Manuel Curado

Section I: Perception

Chapter 1: Disjunctivism and the Internal. A Problem for McDowell’s Epistemological Disjunctivism?

Davide Dalla Rosa and Federico Sanguinetti

Chapter 2: Xenophanes’ Figs and Honey: An Essay about a Program of Philosophy of Perception

Manuel Curado

Chapter 3: A Neurophilosophical Approach to Perception

Steven S. Gouveia and Georg Northoff

Chapter 4: Smelling Molecular Structure

Benjamin D. Young

Chapter 5: "Hierarchical Bokeh" Theory of Attention

Anatoly Nichvoloda

Chapter 6: Perceiving Live Improvisation in the Performing Arts

Aili Bresnahan

　

Section II: Cognition

Chapter 7: Consciousness and Content in Perception

Bill Brewer

Chapter 8: Perceptual Capacities

Susanna Schellenberg

Chapter 9: Thinking Differently About Thought

Nicholas Georgalis

Chapter 10: Immediate and reflective senses

Angela Mendelovici

Chapter 11: The Unity of Unconsciousness

Tim Crane

Chapter 12: Phenomenal Experience and the Thesis of Revelation

Michelle Liu

Section III: Perception and Cognition in Aesthetics

Chapter 13: Would You Buy Absence Art?

Anya Farennikova

Chapter 14: Penetrating Beauty: Knowledge, Culture and Context in Aesthetic Perception

Jesse Prinz

Chapter 15: Gist Experience

Dena Shottenkirk

Chapter 16: How Do I Know When I Am Dancing?

Romain Bigé

Chapter 17a: Interview of James Cohan

Dena Shottenkirk

Chapter 17b: Interview of Leonel Moura

Steven S. Gouveia

O autorze

Dena Shottenkirk is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Brooklyn College. Before receiving her PhD from the Graduate Center (CUNY), Shottenkirk had received an MFA in painting from Rutgers University and was employed as an art critic at both Artforum and Art in America magazines.

Manuel Curado is a Professor at the University of Minho (Portugal). He’s mainly interested in intellectual history, namely the history of the Jewish and Portuguese medicine, and the history of the representations of mental life, namely the Philosophy of Mind debate and the history of Psychiatry until the 19th century.

Steven S. Gouveia is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Minho under the supervision of Professor Manuel Curado (University of Minho) and Professor Georg Northoff (University of Ottawa), funded by the Science and Tecnhology Portuguese Foundation. More info: https://stevensgouveia.weebly.com/