Seeing and Saying : the Language of Perception and the Representational View of Experience.

Seeing and Saying : the Language of Perception and the Representational View of Experience.

In this book, Brit Brogaard defends the view that visual experience is like belief in having a representational content. Her defense differs from most previous defenses of this view in that it begins by looking at the language of ordinary speech. She provides a linguistic analysis of what we say whe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brogaard, Berit
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2018.
Series:Philosophy of mind series.
Subjects:
Perception (Philosophy)
Visual perception.
Phenomenology.
Experience.
Representative government and representation.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
perception.
visual perception.
phenomenology.
Experience
Language and languages > Philosophy
Phenomenology
Representative government and representation
Visual perception
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Series; Seeing and Saying; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Epistemic versus Phenomenal Uses of 'Seem'; 'Seem' as a Subject- Raising Verb; Why the Semantics of 'Seem' Does Not Lend Support to Adverbialism; 'Seem' as a Contextually Flexible Expression; Semantic and Logical Properties of 'Seem'; 'Look' as a Subject- Raising Verb; Objections to the Phenomenal Use of 'Look'; Signpost; Chapter 2; Martin on Phenomenal Looks; Epistemic versus Phenomenal Seemings; Phenomenal Looks and Seemings Are Representational
  • Phenomenal Seeming versus Visual Experience?Signpost; Chapter 3; Visual Experience Is Representational; Illusions; Visual Experience Is Fundamentally Representational; Signpost; Chapter 4; The Generality Problem; Johnston's Illusions; Pink Glows; Travis's Argument Against the Representational View; Dual Looks; Cognitive Penetration; Perceptual Principles; Signpost; Chapter 5; Chisholm's Argument for the Theory of Appearing; Jackson's Argument for the Sense- Datum Theory; Siegel's Argument for the Weak Content View; Schellenberg's Argument for the Representational View
  • Glüer's New Theory of AppearingSignpost; Chapter 6; The Semantics of 'See'; Visuo-Epistemic Uses of 'See'; 'See' as an Intensional Transitive; The Puzzle of Objectual Seeing; Functional Features of Seeing; Signpost; Chapter 7; 'Sound'; 'Smell' and 'Taste'; 'Feel'; Hearing Things; Signpost; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

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