Nanay Current Controversies in Philosophy of Perception

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-55672-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten

Reihe: Current Controversies in Philosophy

This book provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of the hottest and most influential contemporary debates in philosophy of perception, written especially for this volume by many of the most important philosophers of the field. The book addresses the following key questions: Can perception be unconscious? What is the relation between perception and attention? What properties can we perceive? Are perceptual states representations? How is vision different from the other sense modalities (like hearing or smell)? How do these sense modalities interact with one another? Contributors are Ned Block, Berit Brogaard, Alex Byrne, Robert Kentridge, John Kulvicki, Heather Logue, Mohan Matthen, Bence Nanay, Matt Nudds, Casey O’Callaghan, Adam Pautz, Ian Phillips, Susanna Siegel and Wayne Wu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nanay, Bence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Bence Nanay, Professor, University of Antwerp and Cambridge University

PART I: Are perceptual states representations?

1. Susanna Schellenberg, Rutgers University

2. Bill Brewer, King’s College, London

PART II: How can perception be unconscious?

1. Berit Brogaard, University of Missouri at Saint Louis

2. Jesse Prinz, City University of New York, Graduate Center

PART III: Is attention necessary for perception?

1. Ned Block, New York University

2. James Stazicker, University of Reading

PART IV: In what sense is perception multimodal?

1. Ophelia Deroy, University of London

2. Casey O’Callaghan, Rice University

PART V: How is vision different from the other sense modalities?

1. John Kulvicki, Dartmouth College

2. Matthew Nudds, University of Warwick

PART VI: Does perception include both low-level and high-level properties?

1. Susanna Siegel, Harvard University

2. Tim Bayne, University of Manchester