Perception: Essays After FregeCharles Travis presents a series of connected essays on current topics in philosophy of perception. The book is informed throughout by a number of central insights of Gottlob Frege's, notably about some intrinsic differences between objects of thought and objects of perception, and about the essential publicity of thought, and hence of its objects. Travis addresses a number of key questions, including how perception can make the world bear for the perceiver on the thing for him to do or think; what it might be for there to be perceptual experiences indistinguishable from ones of perceiving (hence from experiences of one's surroundings); what it might be for things to look a certain way to the experiencer, where this is not for things to look that way; what the upshot of (sub-personal) perceptual processing might be, what sorts of capacities are drawn on in representing something as (being) something. Besides Frege, the essays owe much to J. L. Austin, something to J. M. Hinton, and more than a little to John McDowell and to Thompson Clarke. They engage critically with McDowell and with Clarke, as well as with such philosophers as Christopher Peacocke, Tyler Burge, Jerry Fodor, Elisabeth Anscombe, A. J. Ayer, and H. A. Prichard. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 The Silences of the Senses | 23 |
2 Frege Father of Disjunctivism | 59 |
3 Viewing the Inner | 90 |
4 Reasons Reach | 118 |
5 The Inward Turn | 144 |
6 Affording us the World | 178 |
7 Is Seeing Intentional? | 198 |
8 Unlocking the Outer World | 223 |
9 Desperately Seeking 936 | 259 |
10 The Preserve of Thinkers | 313 |
11 That Object of Obscure Desire | 364 |
12 While Under the Influence | 391 |
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allorepresenting answer anyway attitude Ayer’s baguette belief bittern Burge ceteris paribus circumstances concept conceptual capacities count decomposed Descartes detecting detector disjunctivism effect-representing element environment environmental Evans example experiencing express fact fixed Frege given grasp headache idea identify instancing intentionality inter alia John McDowell judge judgement Kant Kant’s lemon matter McDowell meat mode of presentation mojito non-conceptual notion object occasion occasion-sensitivity one’s particular peccary Penelope perceiver perceptual experience perhaps phosphene Pia’s pig is snuffling pillar Porsche posture question of truth Rachel Weisz range reach reason recognizable recognize relevant representational content representing-as requires response ringer role Rossy de Palma scene second sense sense data sensitive Sid’s singular thought sipping someone sort of thing speak stand such-and-such suppose surface enquiry tell things looking thinker tomato true truth turn understanding visual awareness visual experience Vorstellung whole thought Wittgenstein yellow