This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. Christopher S. Hill argues that
perceptual experience constitutively involves representations of
worldly items, and that the relevant form of representation can be
explained in broadly biological terms. He then maintains that the
representational contents of perceptual experiences are perceptual
appearances, interpreted as relational, viewpoint-dependent properties
of external objects. There is also a complementary explanation of how
the objects that possess these properties are represented. Hill
maintains that perceptual phenomenology can be explained reductively
in terms of the representational contents of experiences, and uses
this doctrine to undercut the traditional arguments for dualism. This
treatment of perceptual phenomenology is expanded to encompass
cognitive phenomenology, the phenomenology of moods and emotions, and
the phenomenology of pain. Hill also offers accounts of the various
forms of consciousness that perceptual experiences can possess. One
aim is to argue that phenomenology is metaphysically independent of
these forms of consciousness, and another is to de-mystify the form
known as phenomenal consciousness. The book concludes by discussing
the relations of various kinds that perceptual experiences bear to
higher-level cognitive states, including relations of format, content,
and justification or support.
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9780192693631
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2022
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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