Does Perception Have Content?
- ISBN-10
- 0199395241
- ISBN-13
- 9780199395248
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-05
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Berit Brogaard
Description
Within the contemporary philosophical debates over the nature of perception, the question of whether perception has content in the first place recently has become a focus of discussion. The most common view is that it does, but a number of philosophers have questioned this claim. The issue immediately raises a number of related questions. What does it mean to say that perception has content? Does perception have more than one kind of content? Does perceptual content derive from the content of beliefs or judgments? Should perceptual content be understood in terms of accuracy conditions? Is naive realism compatible with holding that perception has content? This volume brings together philosophers representing many different perspectives to address these and other central questions in the philosophy of perception.
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