What It Is Like to Perceive: Direct Realism and the Phenomenal Character of Perception

ISBN-13: 9780190854751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str.

J. Christopher Maloney

Opis

Thought, including conscious perception, is representation. But perceptual representation is uniquely direct, permitting immediate acquaintance with the world and ensuring perception's distinctive phenomenal character. The perceptive mind is extended. It recruits the very objects perceived to constitute self-referential representations determinative of what it is like to perceive.

Recenzje

Maloney's theory is a valuable contribution to the philosophy of perception, admirable for its originality and for the breadth of philosophical and scientific work it synthesizes. Along with his book's interest for specialists, its systematic presentation of issues and positions prominent in recent philosophy and psychology of perception provides advanced nonspecialists with a useful introduction to the field.

O autorze

J. Christopher Maloney is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. He began his career at Oakland University after completing his doctorate at Indiana University. His interests and publications center on foundational issues in the intersection of the philosophy of mind and cognitive science.