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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: metaphysics of sensory experience
  name:
    name part: Papineau, David
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 163 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: What are the materials of conscious perceptual experience? What is going on when we are consciously aware of a visual scene, or hear sounds, or otherwise enjoy sensory experience? In this book, David Papineau exposes the flaws in contemporary answers to this central philosophical question and defends a new alternative. Contemporary theories of perceptual experience all hold that conscious experiences reach out into the world beyond the mind. According to naive realism, experiences literally incorporate perceived facts, while representationalism holds that experiences contain ordinary properties of the kind possessed by physical objects. These ideas might seem attractive at first sight, however Papineau shows that they do not stand up to examination. Instead, he argues for a purely qualitative account of sensory experience. Conscious sensory experiences are intrinsic states with no essential connection to external circumstances or represented properties. This might run counter to initial intuition, yet Papineau develops this qualitative theory in detail and illustrates how it can accommodate the rich structure of sensory experience. Papineau's qualitative account has respectable antecedents in the history of philosophy. By placing the qualitative theory on a firm footing, he shows that those curious about experience need not be restricted to the options in contemporary philosophical discourse.
  note: David Papineau.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-160) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Senses and sensation
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  classification: BD214 .P375 2021
  classification: 152.1
  identifier: 9780198862390
  identifier: 0198862393
  identifier: 9780192606976
  identifier: 2021931453
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210127
    record change date: 20210922102411.0
    record identifier: in00004366108