Visual Experience - A Semantic Approach

Wylie Breckenridge offers a fresh understanding of the character of visual experience by deploying the methods of semantics. He develops a theory of what we mean by the 'look' sentences that we use to describe the character of our visual experiences, and on that basis develops a theory of what it is to have a visual experience with a certain character. The result is a new and stronger defence of a neglected view, the adverbial theory of perception.

List of contents

• 1: The Project


• 2: A Simple Character


• 3: Ways of Looking


• 4: The Mechanism


• 5: Syntactic Details


• 6: Implicit Domain Restriction


• 7: Concepts and Discrimination


• 8: Other 'Look' Sentences


• 9: Other Characters


• 10: The Many Property Problem


• 11: Explaining Phenomena

About the author

Wylie Breckenridge studied as an undergraduate at Sydney University before completing his BPhil and DPhil and Oxford University. He then held a Postdoc position at Cornell University for two years, before beocoming a lecturer at Charles Sturt University.

Summary

Wylie Breckenridge offers a fresh understanding of the character of visual experience by deploying the methods of semantics. He develops a theory of what we mean by the 'look' sentences that we use to describe our visual experiences, and on that basis develops a theory of what it is to have a visual experience with a certain character.

Product details

• Authors: Wylie Breckenridge, Wylie (Lecturer in Philosophy Breckenridge
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780199600465
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960046-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Oxford Philosophical Monographs; Oxford Philosophical Monographs; Oxford Philosophical Monograph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics