Perceptual Experience

by Gendler, Tamar Szabo; Hawthorne, John

• ISBN13: 9780199289752
• ISBN10: 0199289751
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In the last few years there has been an explosion of philosophical interest in perception; after decades of neglect, it is now one of the most fertile areas for new work. Perceptual Experience presents new work by fifteen of the world's leading philosophers. All papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics dealing with sensation and representation, consciousness and awareness, and the connections between perception and knowledge and between perception and action. This will be the book on the philosophy of perception, a fascinating resource for philosophers and psychologists.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction: Perceptual Experience	1	(353)
TAMAR SZABÓ GENDLER AND JOHN HAWTHORNE
1. Manipulating Colour: Pounding an Almond	31	(18)
JOHN CAMPBELL
2. Perception and the Fall from Eden	49	(77)
DAVID J. CHALMERS
3. Is There a Perceptual Relation?	126	(21)
TIM CRANE
4. Perception without Awareness	147	(34)
FRED DRETSKE
5. Experience and Knowledge	181	(24)
ANIL GUPTA
6. Active Perception and Perceiving Action: The Shared Circuits Model	205	(55)
SUSAN HURLEY
7. Better than Mere Knowledge? The Function of Sensory Awareness	260	(31)
MARK JOHNSTON
8. The Experience of Left and Right	291	(25)
GEOFFREY LEE
9. Phenomenal Impressions	316	(38)
ERIC LORMAND
10. On Being Alienated	354	(57)
M.G.F. MARTIN
11. Experience without the Head	411	(23)
ALVA NO	OË
12. Beyond Appearances: The Content of Sensation and Perception	434	(27)
JESSE J. PRINZ
13. On the Ways Things Appear	461	(20)
SYDNEY SHOEMAKER
14. Which Properties are Represented in Perception?	481	(23)
SUSANNA SIEGEL
15. Nonconceptual Content, Richness, and Fineness of Grain	504	(27)
MICHAEL TYE
Index	531