The Relational View of Perception

In this outstanding collection an international team of contributors examine relationalism and consider its role in philosophy of mind and perception. Essential reading for advanced students and scholars in philosophy of mind.

Relationalism is the view in philosophy of mind that particulars in our environment are constituents of conscious perception. It is an important theory of perceptual experience, offering explanations of perception's phenomenal character and its epistemic and semantic role. However, it has also been criticised for a lack of empirical grounding.

In this outstanding collection, an international team of contributors examine relationalism and consider its role in philosophy of mind and perception across four key areas:

• The significance of empirical evidence to the theory of relationalism
• Dependence of experience on the subject's internal makeup
• Hallucinations and the unity of perceptual experience
• Relationalism and empirical knowledge. The Relational View of Perception: New Philosophical Essays will be of great interest to advanced students and scholars in philosophy of mind.

Contributors: Dominic Alford-Duguid, Rami Ali, Ori Beck, Alex Byrne, Elijah Chudnoff, Peter Epstein, Craig French, E. J. Green, Roberta Locatelli, Heather Logue, Farid Masrour, Alva Noë, Adam Pautz, Ian Phillips, Thomas Raleigh, Susanna Schellenberg, Umrao Sethi, Matthew Soteriou, and Lisa Titus.

Autorentext

Farid Masrour is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research interests range over philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology, and Kant's theoretical philosophy.

Ori Beck is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He primarily works in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of cognitive science.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Logical Space of Relationalism Farid Masrour and Ori Beck Part 1: Perception's Phenomenal Character 1. Subjective Perspectives and Perceptual Variance Susanna Schellenberg 2. Spatial Perception: Advertisement for a Structuralist Fregean Relationalism Farid Masrour 3. Perception as a Relationship Alva Noë 4. The Partiality of Perception Matthew Soteriou 5. A Change of Perspective: Naïve Realism and Normal Variation Craig French and Ian Phillips 6. Whither Naïve Realism? - II Alex Byrne and E. J. Green 7. A Look at French and Phillips' Naïve Realism Adam Pautz Part 2: The (Dis)Unity of Perceptual Experience 8. The Anti-Relationalist's Hard Problem Peter Epstein 9. Hallucination Without Sensible Qualities Dominic Alford-Duguid 10. The Disjunctive Property View of Phenomenal Character Roberta Locatelli 11. What Can the Naïve Realist Say about Total Hallucinations? Riding the New Relationalist Wave Heather Logue and Thomas Raleigh 12. What in the world are hallucinations? Rami Ali Part 3: Relationalism's Epistemological Benefits 13. Perceptually Secured Knowledge Elijah Chudnoff 14. A (Qualified) Defense of Diaphaneity Umrao Sethi 15. The Consciousness Knowledge Requires Ori Beck 16. Making Use of Perception Lisa Miracchi Titus. Index