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Zusatztext '? Soteriou carefully lays out the motivations behind disjunctive accounts of perceptual experience and discusses in detail their contribution to advancing traditional and current debates about the nature and role of perception. ? [The book] offers the first systematic and in-depth introduction to the central themes and protagonists of one of the most controversial and debated theories of perception of the past decades. Postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students will benefit from the book both as a standalone overview of disjunctivism and as critical companion to some of its central texts. ? More experienced researchers will also benefit from Soteriou's analysis of a number of controversial issues at the focus of current debates on disjunctivism ? .' - Simone Marini! International Journal of Philosophical Studies'Disjunctivism is a limpid! comprehensive! and authoritative introduction to a central topic in the philosophy of perception. Students can't do better than start with Soteriou's book! and specialists will also find it invaluable.' - Alex Byrne! Massachusetts Institute of Technology! USA'How should illusions and hallucinations shape our theory of perception? Soteriou guides us skillfully through the depths of this question! and brings to life philosophers' attempts to understand our most fundamental connection with reality. This book is an insightful introduction to the philosophy of perception.' - Susanna Siegel! Harvard University! USA'An outstanding example of philosophical writing. Soteriou examines in a sophisticated yet clear way the current discussions of disjunctivism! putting the view into complex dialectical relation with sense-data and intentionalist accounts of perception. If one wants to understand contemporary debates in the philosophy of perception one could not do better than to read this book.' - Steven Levine! University of Massachusetts! Boston! USA Informationen zum Autor Matthew Soteriou is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of The Mind's Construction: The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action (2013), and co-editor (with Lucy O'Brien) of Mental Actions (2009). Klappentext Including chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary this is an ideal starting point for anyone studying disjunctivism for the first time as well as more advanced students and researchers. Zusammenfassung Including chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary this is an ideal starting point for anyone studying disjunctivism for the first time as well as more advanced students and researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Sense-datum Theories and the Argument from Hallucination 2. Representational Content, the Science of Perception, and Disjunctivism about Conscious Character 3. Does Introspective Reflection Support Naïve Realism? 4. Naïve Realism, Perceptual Acquaintance, and Perceptually-based Thought 5. Epistemological Disjunctivism 6. Disjunctivist accounts of Hallucination and Illusion 7. Varieties of Disjunctivism. Glossary Index ...
