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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Philosophy of Perception"”.
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The Sense-Data Delusion
This thesis project considers the philosophy of perception and the idea of empirical knowledge to guide understanding of those perceptions as veridical or non-veridical. It defines and discusses the concept of sense-data as it bears on perception. Individual’s perceptions can and do differ and we …
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Etiological teleosemantics and theories of nonconceptual content
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Within the philosophy of mind, discourse regarding the relation between human thought and its objects refers to ‘intentional content’, the information conveyed by mental states to a subject. A broad and intuitive distinction has …
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Invisible landscapes : landscape, memory and time in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
The eponymous protagonist of Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald's final prose novel, is haunted by landscapes of loss. Both Austerlitz and the narrator are acutely aware of the signs of destruction and of the invisible histories of loss in the landscapes through which they travel. Through the gaze of both …
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Maimon's Post-Kantian Skepticism
… Kant himself referred to Maimon as the best of his critics. The appraisal and reformulation of the Kantian project detailed in Maimon’s Essay on Transcendental Philosophy played a significant role in determining the criteria of success for post-Kantian philosophy, and was thus crucial to the …
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Seeing Right from Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Ethical Intuitionism
… I</p> <p>begin by defending an understanding of evolutionary debunking arguments according</p> <p>to which the problem is grounded in a lack of epistemic access to sui generis, non-causal</p> <p>moral facts. Next, I argue that even the most sophisticated versions of reflective</p> …
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Kinesthetic Imagery and Choreographic Praxis
The aim of this research project is to investigate the practical application of some ideas regarding how dancers can create certain types of mental images that are formed through their kinesthetic perception, which we shall define as ‘kinesthetic images’, and to study the spatial or geometric …
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Perceiving Temporal Structure
… revived challenges, and to show how a theory of temporal perception bears on central issues in the philosophy of mind. Experience manifestly possesses its own temporal structure. If we have perceptual experiences of the temporal structure of external events, it seems natural to ask whether …
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Austinian Disjunctivism Defended: A Presentational Theory of Visual Experience
… develops a general theory about the nature of conscious visual experience. My starting point is with the naïve realist theory of visual perception. Whilst naïve realism is by no means universally endorsed, I begin with the assumption that we have good reason to accept it. The central …
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Perceptual Expectation
… currently about to see many other things. Many of the things that you are about to see will not be surprising, because you expect to see them. Sometimes, though, when you expect to see one thing and are faced with another, that thing will look like the thing you expected it to be, and not like …
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The Stoic cognitive impression and the Academic Aparallaxia Argument: a study of an epistemological debate.
The present study offers a reconstruction of part of the epistemological debate between Stoics and the sceptical Academy, showing that the Stoic views were in part shaped by the philosophical exchange with their sceptical opponents and refined as a result of this confrontation. It focuses on the …
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Colour and Colour Vision in Late Nineteenth Century British Sciences
This thesis employs a close reading of archival and published sources to explore the origins of colour vision science in 19th century Britain. By drawing attention to wide ranging dialogues and disagreements between diverse figures with different visions of colour, including physicists David …