Perceptual Content

Informationen zum Autor William G. Lycan is Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut, and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include Consciousness (1987), Modality and Meaning ( 1994), Consciousness and Experience (1996), Real Conditionals (2001), and On Evidence in Philosophy (2019). Klappentext Perceptual Content is the first book to discuss and compare the representational characters of all the traditional "five senses". It has three main topics or concerns: the diversity of the senses; the way the contents of sensory representations are layered; and aspect perception, "perceiving as". Zusammenfassung Perceptual Content is the first book to discuss and compare the representational characters of all the traditional "five senses". It has three main topics or concerns: the diversity of the senses; the way the contents of sensory representations are layered; and aspect perception, “perceiving as”. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I Representation by the Chemical Senses 1: The Intentionality of Smell 2: What Does Taste Represent? Afterword on Consciousness Part II Layering 3: Introduction to Perceptual Layering 4: What Does Vision Represent? What Is It We Touch? Part III Beyond Layering 6: Complications 7: Multimodality Part IV Aspect Perception 8: Philosophy and the Duck-Rabbit 9: Hearing As Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: William G. Lycan, William G. (William Rand Kenan Lycan, Lycan William G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2024
• EAN: 9780192871817
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287181-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge