The unity of perception : content, consciousness, evidence / Susanna Schellenberg.
2018
BF311
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Title
The unity of perception : content, consciousness, evidence / Susanna Schellenberg.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191866784 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
BF311
Dewey Decimal Classification
153.7
Summary
Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental states. It converts informational input, such as light and sound waves, into representations of invariant features in our environment. Corresponding to these three roles, there are at least three fundamental questions that have motivated the study of perception. How does perception justify beliefs and yield knowledge of our environment? How does perception bring about conscious mental states? How does a perceptual system accomplish the feat of converting varying informational input into mental representations of invariant features in our environment? This book presents a unified account of the phenomenological and epistemological role of perception that is informed by empirical research.
Note
Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental states. It converts informational input, such as light and sound waves, into representations of invariant features in our environment. Corresponding to these three roles, there are at least three fundamental questions that have motivated the study of perception. How does perception justify beliefs and yield knowledge of our environment? How does perception bring about conscious mental states? How does a perceptual system accomplish the feat of converting varying informational input into mental representations of invariant features in our environment? This book presents a unified account of the phenomenological and epistemological role of perception that is informed by empirical research.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 21, 2018).
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