Daniel Kalpokas

Perception and Its Content (eBook, PDF)

Toward the Propositional Attitude View

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Produktbeschreibung

What is perception? What is, if any, its content? What is the contribution of perception to knowledge? Perception and Its Content: Toward the Propositional Attitude View argues that perception has conceptual, propositional, and world-dependent content. After criticizing those theories of experience that conceive it as contentless (the causal-linkage approach and naïve realism), the book examines the nature of perceptual content. Daniel Kalpokas critically scrutinizes different varieties of non-conceptualism and claims that the content of experience is partly conceptual. Perception and Its Content defends the propositional-attitude view, according to which perceptual content is propositional in nature, and explores the world-dependent character of such content. Kalpokas holds that the content of experience is composed of concepts and the presented objects, such as they appear from the subject's point of view and determined environmental conditions. According to this view, perception provides non-inferential knowledge of the truth-makers of our judgments and beliefs. Furthermore, and importantly, that view sheds light on how the mind relates to the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978777149
• Artikelnr.: 74397791

Autorenporträt

Daniel Kalpokas, PhD, is professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, National University of Córdoba, and a Principal Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter I: Contentless Experience I: Perceptual Experience as a Causal
Linkage
Chapter II: Contentless Experience II: Naïve Realism
Chapter III: Contentful Experience I: Non-conceptualism
Chapter IV: Contentful Experience II: The Propositional Attitude View
Chapter V: Perception as Contentful and Relational
Chapter VI: Perceptual Reasons
Chapter VII: Perception, Thought and Reality
Afterword
References
Index
About the Author