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Consciousness

On Monday, I gave a general overview of the main ideas in my forthcoming book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence. The key idea developed in the book is that perception is constituted by employing perceptual capacities—for example the capacity to discriminate and single out instances of red from …

Perceptual Content

Susanna Schellenberg March 6, 2018 March 7, 2018 Content / perception / Philosophy of Mind / Susanna Schellenberg: The Unity of Perception

It is Monday morning and I am riding the train through the post-industrial wasteland of northern New Jersey. I gaze out of the window and, suddenly, I see a deer. Let’s call it Frederik. The next morning, I am again on the train, riding through northern New Jersey. And, again, …

The Foundations of Perception

Susanna Schellenberg March 6, 2018 March 6, 2018 functions / metaphysics of mind / Neuroscience / perception / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / Susanna Schellenberg: The Unity of Perception

Yesterday, I gave a general overview of my forthcoming book. Today, I’ll lay out the foundations on which the rest of the book builds: the general and particular elements of perception. Chapter 1 addresses the particular elements of perception, Chapter 2 its general elements. The phenomenon of perceptual particularity …

The Unity of Perception

Susanna Schellenberg March 5, 2018 March 5, 2018 books / Consciousness / Content / Epistemology / functions / metaphysics of mind / perception / perception;neuroscience / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / representation / Susanna Schellenberg: The Unity of Perception

Many thanks to John Schwenkler for running the Brains blog and for inviting me to guest blog this week about my new book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in …

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John Schwenkler March 5, 2018 March 11, 2018 books

We are grateful to Susanna Schellenberg for blogging this week on her book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence, forthcoming in July 2018 from Oxford University Press. To view all her posts on a single page, please click here.

How could we rationally suppose that we lack free will?

John Schwenkler February 12, 2018 February 12, 2018 books / Epistemology / Ethics / Free will / Philosophy of Mind

[The following is a guest post by Bob Lockie. — JS] He who says that all things happen of necessity can hardly find fault with one who denies that all happens by necessity; for on his own theory this very argument is voiced by necessity (Epicurus 1964: XL). Epicurus’s famous …

Evolving Enactivism: The Natural Origins of Content

Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin January 28, 2018 January 29, 2018 Content / Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin: Evolving Enactivism

In our previous posts, we have so far focused on: (1) clarifying our understanding of Ur-intentionality – REC’s positive proposal for understanding the thesis that basic cognition lacks content; (2) reviewing the problems faced by classic teleosemantic theories that motivate adopting REC’s proposal; and (3) detailing some of the theoretical …