Action in Perception (Representation and Mind Series) - Hardcover

Noe, Alva

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262140888 ISBN 13: 9780262140881

Verlag: MIT Press, 2005

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"Bold and lucid, this book brings out the best in the philosophy of mind. Noe shows that it is not enough to know the puzzling phenomena; you have to resist the tempting misinterpretations of them that have bedevilled cognitive scientists and philosophers alike. Here is a philosopher who can actually help cognitive scientists untangle the knotty problems of the mind." - Daniel Dennett, author of Brainchildren, Consciousness Explained, and Freedom Evolves"

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This book presents an argument that perception is something we do, not something that happens to us: not a process in the brain, but a skillful bodily activity. "Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us," writes Alva Noe. "It is something we do." In "Action in Perception", Noe argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend on capacities for action and thought - that perception is a kind of thoughtful activity. Touch, not vision, should be our model for perception. Perception is not a process in the brain, but a kind of skilful activity of the body as a whole. We enact our perceptual experience. To perceive, according to this enactive approach to perception, is not merely to have sensations; it is to have sensations that we understand. In "Action in Perception", Noe investigates the forms this understanding can take. He begins by arguing, on both phenomenological and empirical grounds, that the content of perception is not like the content of a picture; the world is not given to consciousness all at once but is gained gradually by active inquiry and exploration. Noe then argues that perceptual experience acquires content thanks to our possession and exercise of practical bodily knowledge, and examines, among other topics, the problems posed by spatial content and the experience of colour. He considers the perspectival aspect of the representational content of experience and assesses the place of thought and understanding in experience. Finally, he explores the implications of the enactive approach for our understanding of the neuroscience of perception.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0262140888
• ISBN 13: 9780262140881
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 289