What it is like to perceive: direct realism and the phenomenal character of perception

Thought, including conscious perception, is representation. But perceptual representation is uniquely direct, permitting immediate acquaintance with the world and ensuring perception's distinctive phenomenal character. The perceptive mind is extended. It recruits the very objects perceived to c...

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Main Author: Maloney, J. Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2018
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Summary:Thought, including conscious perception, is representation. But perceptual representation is uniquely direct, permitting immediate acquaintance with the world and ensuring perception's distinctive phenomenal character. The perceptive mind is extended. It recruits the very objects perceived to constitute self-referential representations determinative of what it is like to perceive
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2018
ISBN:9780190854782
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190854751.001.0001

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