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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822652403321

Autore

Zucca Diego

Titolo

Defending the content view of perceptual experience / / by Diego Zucca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8468-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

121.34

Soggetti

Perception (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in philosophical interest in perception. Perception is the basic and primary way in which we get in touch with our world in cognitive and active terms: by perceiving the surrounding world, we come to form true beliefs about it and successfully inhabit it through our actions. As such, correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues.This book offers a defence of the content view of perceptual experience, of the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a