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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956610303321

Autore

Raftopoulos Athanassios

Titolo

Cognition and perception : how do psychology and neural science inform philosophy? / / Athanassios Raftopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612694738

9780262258418

0262258412

9781282694736

1282694731

9780262259149

0262259141

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 p.)

Disciplina

121/.34

Soggetti

Cognition

Perception

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The role of attention in vision and visual processing -- The timing of visual processing and the effects of attention -- Object-centered segmentation processes and the object individuation -- The nonconceptual content of experience -- What is the phenomenal content of experience? -- Object files, nonconceptual content, and demonstrative reference -- The theory ladenness of perception : Churchland vs. Fodor -- Nonconceptual content, perception, and realism.

Sommario/riassunto

An argument that there are perceptual mechanisms that retrieve information in cognitively and conceptually unmediated ways and that this sheds light on various philosophical issues.issuesissues.