Perceptual Experience

561 Pages·2006·3.05 MB·English

by  Tamar Szabo Gendler

PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE
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Perceptual Experience
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Acknowledgements
Two anonymous referees provided excellent counsel on the volume’s overall
structure, and incisive suggestions concerning a number of the chapters; their
influence can be seen at many points throughout the book. Many others made
important contributions to one or more of the individual papers; acknowl-
edgements of these contributions can be found in the papers themselves.
Syracuse, Cornell and Rutgers Universities offered financial support for the
preparation of this volume. Thanks are also due to Peter Momtchiloff and
Rebecca Bryant of Oxford University Press for seeing the publication through
from beginning to end, and to the other staff at OUP who played a role in its
production along the way.
All of the authors were enormously cooperative in meeting deadlines and
responding to suggestions and queries, which made our editorial task much
lighter.Authorswerealsograciousenoughtocirculateearlydraftsoftheiressays
to other contributors, resulting in fruitful discussion and cross-references.
Three graduate students played important roles in bringing the volume to
fruition. Karson Kovakovich helped at the preliminary stages with both
administrative and editorial work. John Wynne did an extraordinary job pre-
paring an absolutely first-rate index. And Emily Esch saw the book through its
finalmonths,providingoutstandingadviceandsupportateverystepoftheway.
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Contents
Contributors ix
Introduction: Perceptual Experience 1
tamar szabo´ gendler and john hawthorne
1. Manipulating Colour: Pounding an Almond 31
john campbell
2. Perception and the Fall from Eden 49
david j. chalmers
3. Is There a Perceptual Relation? 126
tim crane
4. Perception without Awareness 147
fred dretske
5. Experience and Knowledge 181
anil gupta
6. Active Perception and Perceiving Action: The Shared
Circuits Model 205
susan hurley
7. Better than Mere Knowledge? The Function of Sensory Awareness 260
mark johnston
8. The Experience of Left and Right 291
geoffrey lee
9. Phenomenal Impressions 316
eric lormand
10. On Being Alienated 354
m. g. f. martin
11. Experience without the Head 411
alva noe¨
12. Beyond Appearances: The Content of Sensation and Perception 434
jesse j. prinz
13. On the Ways Things Appear 461
sydney shoemaker
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14. Which Properties are Represented in Perception? 481
susanna siegel
15. Nonconceptual Content, Richness, and Fineness of Grain 504
michael tye
Index 531
Contributors
john campbell is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the
UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
davidj.chalmersisProfessorofPhilosophy,ARCFederationFellow,andDirector
of the Centre for Consciousness, in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian
NationalUniversity
tim crane is Professor of Philosophy at UCL and Director of the Institute of Philo-
sophyattheUniversityofLondon
freddretskeisSeniorResearchScholaratDukeUniversity
tamarszabo´ gendlerisAssociate ProfessorofPhilosophyatCornellUniversity
anilguptaisDistinguishedProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofPittsburgh
johnhawthorneisProfessorofPhilosophyatRutgersUniversity
susanhurleyisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofBristolandisafellowof
AllSoulsCollege,Oxford
markjohnstonisWalterCerfProfessorofPhilosophyatPrincetonUniversity
geoffreyleeisaDoctoralStudentinPhilosophyatNewYorkUniversity
eric lormand is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan,
AnnArbor
m.g.f.martinisProfessorofPhilosophyatUCL
alvanoe¨ isAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
jessej.prinzisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofNorthCarolina,
ChapelHill
sydneyshoemakerisSusanLinnSageProfessorEmeritusatCornellUniversity
susanna siegel is Associate Professor of Philosophy and John L. Loeb Associate
ProfessoroftheHumanitiesatHarvardUniversity
michaeltyeisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofTexas,Austin