The Admissible Contents of Experience

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Katherine Hawley, Fiona Macpherson
John Wiley & Sons, Sep 7, 2011 - Philosophy - 208 pages
Which objects and properties are represented in perceptual experience, and how are we able to determine this? The papers in this collection address these questions together with other fundamental questions about the nature of perceptual content.
  • The book draws together papers by leading international philosophers of mind, including Alex Byrne (MIT), Alva Noë (University of California, Berkeley), Tim Bayne (St Catherine’s College, Oxford), Michael Tye (University of Texas, Austin), Richard Price (All Souls College, Oxford) and Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
  • Essays address the central questions surrounding the content of perceptual experience
  • Investigates how are we able to determine the admissible contents of experience
  • Published in association with the journal Philosophical Quarterly
 

Contents

Perception and the Reach of Phenomenal
Seeing Causings and Hearing Gestures
Experience and Content
FIONA MACPHERSON
Is Perception A Propositional Attitude?
Conscious Reference
What Are the Contents of Experiences?
AspectSwitching and Visual Phenomenal
The Existential Thesis
The Singular When Filled Thesis
Kaplanianism
The Multiple Contents Thesis
The Existential Thesis Revisited
Still More on Existential Contents
Consequences for Strong Intentionalism
A New Intentionalist Proposal

The Visual Experience of Causation
in Experience?
The Admissible Contents of Visual Experience
Conclusion
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About the author (2011)

Katherine Hawley is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews and Editorial Chair of the Philosophical Quarterly. She has published articles in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science, and is the author of How Things Persist (2001).

Fiona Macpherson is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow. She has recently also been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Consciousness, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. She has published articles in philosophy of mind, psychology and perception and is a co-editor (with Adrian Haddock) of Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge (2008).

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