Perceptual content /

'Perceptual Content' discusses and compares the representational characters of all the traditional 'five senses'. It has three main topics or concerns. (1) The diversity of the senses: though Lycan maintains as a working assumption that all perception represents, the similarity b...

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Main Author:	Lycan, William G. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:	Senses and sensation. Senses and sensation > Philosophy. Perception. Sens et sensations. Sens et sensations > Philosophie. Epistemology. PHILOSOPHY. Cognitive Psychology & Cognition. PSYCHOLOGY. Psychology. Perceptual representation, the senses, smell, taste, vision, touch, hearing, perceptual layering, multimodality, aspect perception Electronic books.
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Summary:	'Perceptual Content' discusses and compares the representational characters of all the traditional 'five senses'. It has three main topics or concerns. (1) The diversity of the senses: though Lycan maintains as a working assumption that all perception represents, the similarity between sense modalities ends there. The senses' respective representational modes, styles and structures - not just their mechanisms - differ very strongly from each other. (2) The Layering thesis: Lycan argues that a single sensory representation usually has more than one content, the contents systematically related to each other by a priority or dependence relation. More specifically, a perceptual state may represent one object or property by representing a more primitive or less ambitious one; he calls this the 'layering' of content.
Item Description:	Also issued in print: 2024.
Physical Description:	1 online resource : illustrations.
Audience:	Specialized.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780191968044 0191968048 9780192699893 019269989X 0192699881 9780192699886