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Seeing, doing, and knowing: a philosophical theory of sense perception

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Seeing, doing, and knowing: a philosophical theory of sense perception

Seeing, Doing, and Knowing is an original and comprehensive philosophical treatment of sense perception as it is currently investigated by cognitive neuroscientists. Its central theme is the task-oriented specialization of sensory systems across the biological domain. Sensory systems are automatic sorting machines; they engage in a process of classification. Human vision sorts and orders external objects in terms of a specialized, proprietary scheme of categories - colours, shapes, speeds and directions of movement, etc. This 'Sensory Classification Thesis' implies that sensation is not a naturally caused image from which an organism must infer the state of the world beyond; it is more like an internal communication, a signal concerning the state of the world issued by a sensory system, in accordance with internal conventions, for the use of an organism's other systems. This is why sensory states are both easily understood and persuasive. Sensory classification schemes are purpose-built to serve the knowledge-gathering and pragmatic needs of particular types of organisms. They are specialized: a bee or a bird does not see exactly what a human does.

Oxford

Clarendon

2005

xxii, 362 p.: ill.; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]336[-350( and index

ISBN: 9780199204281

Mohan Matthen

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The sensory classification thesis -- Sensory classification : the viewpoint from psychology -- Sensory concepts -- The sensory ordering thesis -- The sources of sensory similarity -- Perceptual specialization and the definition of colour -- The disunity of colour -- Pluralistic realism -- Sensing and doing -- Sense experience -- The semantic theory of colour experience -- Visual objects -- Visual reference

، Senses and sensation

، Sense )Philosophy(

Matthen, Mohan

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