Sebastián Sanhueza Rodríguez

The Ontology of Perceptual Experience (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary philosophy of perception typically focuses on discussions concerning the content and the phenomenology of perceptual experience. In a significant departure from this tradition, The Ontology of Perceptual Experience explores the very conscious phenomena to which intentional or phenomenal features are thus ascribed. Drawing on a new wave of research- including the work of maverick philosophers like Helen Steward, Brian O'Shaughnessy, and Matthew Soteriou-this book examines two ways of categorizing perceptual experiences in accordance to their dynamic structure: on the one hand, Experiential Heracliteanism, an approach striving to describe perceptual experiences in terms of irreducibly dynamic components; and, on the other, Experiential Non-Heracliteanism, which conceives perceptual experiences as dynamic phenomena that may nevertheless be described in terms of non-dynamic elements. Sebastián Sanhueza Rodríguez describes both proposals and makes a modest case on behalf of the Non-Heraclitean approach against its increasingly popular Heraclitean counterpart. This case crucially turns on the fact that the Heracliteanist engages in a controversial and perhaps unnecessary commitment to irreducibly dynamic processes. The ontological framework this book unpacks offers a platform from which traditional issues in the philosophies of mind and perception may be revisited in refreshing and potentially fruitful ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793616869
• Artikelnr.: 64693610

Autorenporträt

By Sebastián Sanhueza Rodríguez

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter One: The Dynamic Structure of Perceptual Experiences
Chapter Two: Experiential Heracliteanism
Chapter Three: Experiential Non-Heracliteanism
Chapter Four: The Individuation of Experiences
Chapter Five: Experience and Causation
Chapter Six: Applications beyond the Ontology of Perception
Chapter Seven: Perceptual Experience and Language
Bibliography
About the Author