The Roles of Representation in Visual Perception

This volume contains new papers addressing a number of new and traditional issues pertaining to the roles of representations in visual perception.
Among these issues is the one concerning the nature of the perceptual state itself e. g. on the issue of whether the perceptual state, like its distal objects, is structured, for instance by possessing a spatial character. Other issues include those of whether at least aspects of the distal object are presented immediately to us visually, whether representation plays any (interesting) role in disjunctivist and naïve realist accounts of visual experience and the relationship among visual perception, attention and representation.
The anthology includes a wide variety of positions on the subject of the roles of representations in visual perception, which would help to close the literature gap and will be of interest to scholars from all schools and trends of philosophy of mind.

Presents a wide variety of scholarly positions Highlights the discussion on the nature of the perpetual state Closes the literature gap in the field

Auteur

Robert French is a philosopher with degrees from Dartmouth College and Boston University. He has taught at a variety of colleges and universities in the Detroit, Michigan area. His research interests include work in the philosophy of perception (in particular on how events in the phenomenal space of visual experience are reconstructed from neural events in the brain) and work in developing a physically realist interpretation of quantum mechanics. Among other publications he is co-editor with John Smythies of Direct versus Indirect Realism: A Neurophilosophical Debate published by Elsevier.

Berit Brogaard is Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami. Her areas of research include philosophy of perception, philosophy of emotions, and philosophy of language. She is the author of Transient Truths (Oxford University Press, 2012), On Romantic Love (Oxford University Press, 2015), The Superhuman Mind (Penguin, 2015), Seeing & Saying (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Hatred: Understanding our Most Dangerous Emotion (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Contenu

1. The Roles of Representation in Visual Perception: An Introduction (Berit Brogaard and Robert French).- Part I. Cognitive and Contextual Influences on Perceptual Representation. 2. Joint Perception Needs Representations (Ophelia Deroy and Louis Longin).- 3. The Role of Long-Term Memory in Visual Perception (Berit Brogaard and Thomas Alrik Sørensen).- 4. Attention and Representational Precision (Azenet Lopez).- 5. Uncertainty in Blurry Vision (Jonna Vance).- Part II. What Do Perceptual Representations Represent?. 6. Representation, Attention, and Perceptual Learning (Madeleine Ransom).- 7. Singular Experiences (With and Without Objects) (Angela Mendelovici).- 8. Kaplanianism (Roberto Pereira).- 9. Reliable Color Misrepresentation and Color Vision (Dimitria Electra Gatzia).- 10. Subject-Dependent Factors in the Perception of Size (Louise Daoust).- Part III. Against Representation: Direct Relational Views. 11. Naive Realism as Psychosemantics (William Fish).- 12. The Epistemic Value of Cognitive Contact with Reality (Duncan Pritchard).- 13. How to be a Direct Realist (Otavio Bueno).- 14. Get Acquainted With Naïve Idealism (Helen Yetter-Chappell).- 15. What are Phenomenal Particularists Committed To? (Rami El Ali).- Part IV. Revisiting Indirect Realist Theories Including Sense-Datum Theories. 16. Spatial Representational Theories of Visual Perception (Robert French).- 17. Information Flow, Representation, and Awareness (Ernest Kent).- 18. Seeing Matters: The Remarkable Relevance of the Object-Representation Relationship to Science and to Society! (Nicholas Rosseinsky).- 19. On the Analysis of Brentano's Intentional Inexistence in Light of the Historical Background (David McGraw).- Part V: The Role of Enactive and Embodied Representations in Perception. 20. Seeing What To Do: Embodied Instructive Representations in Vision (Alison Springle).- 21. Updating Our Theories of Perceiving: From Predictive Processing to Radical Enactivism (Daniel Hutto and Ines Hipolito).- 22. The Role of Image Schemas in Visual Perception (Dan Guo, Huili Wang, and Zhongliang Cui).