Perspectives on Perception

✍ Scribed by Mary Margaret McCabe (editor); Mark Textor (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 188
• Series: Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical Research; 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Perception and its puzzles have given rise to philosophical reflection from antiquity to recent times: What do we perceive? How do we talk about what we perceive? What is the nature of our subjective experience?  How can we talk about our subjective experience? In this book a distinguished group of philosophers addresses questions like these by drawing on historical and contemporary sources, illuminating the intersections between historical and contemporary philosophical discussion. They ask about the way things look; about how we can perceive a particular object (and no other); about self-perception; and about the nature and explanation of our phenomenal experience, and our talk about it. The book provides important new work in a central philosophical area.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of Contributo
Preface
A bit of autobiography Alan Lacey
A puzzle about how things look R. M. Sainsbury
The problem of consciousnessand the innerness of the mindJim Hopkins
Seeing an individual∗ Keith Hossack
Seeing something and believing IN it Mark Textor
Phenomenal conceptsare not demonstrative David Papineau
Kant on the a priori content ofperceptual experience
Anthony Savile
Self-awareness Richard Sorabji
Perceiving that we see and hear: Aristotle onPlato on judgement and reflection Mary Margaret McCabe