Unity of Perception - Content, Consciousness, Evidence

This book develops a unified account of perceptual content, perceptual consciousness, and perceptual evidence. Each is analyzed in terms of the key idea that perception is constituted by employing perceptual capacities, for example, the capacity to discriminate red from blue. The view presented is radical, original, and broad in scope.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I: Foundations


• 1: Perceptual Particularity


• 2: Perceptual Capacities


• Part II: Content


• 3: Content Particularism


• 4: Fregean Particularism


• 5: In Defense of Perceptual Content


• Part III: Consciousness


• 6: Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity


• Part IV: Evidence


• 7: Perceptual Evidence


• 8: Justification, Luminosity, and Credences


• 9: Perceptual Knowledge and Gettier Cases


• 10: Capacitism and Alternative Views

About the author

Susanna Schellenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, where she holds a secondary appointment at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Before joining Rutgers, she was an Associate Professor (previously Assistant Professor and Postdoc) at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences. Her work has been published widely in journals such as Nous, The Journal of Philosophy, Mind, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. She is the 2016 recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation.

Summary

This book develops a unified account of perceptual content, perceptual consciousness, and perceptual evidence. Each is analyzed in terms of the key idea that perception is constituted by employing perceptual capacities, for example, the capacity to discriminate red from blue. The view presented is radical, original, and broad in scope.

Product details

• Authors: Susanna Schellenberg, Susanna (Professor of Philosophy Schellenberg
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780192846228
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284622-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Perception, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Realism, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge