The Ontology of Perceptual Experience
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The Ontology of Perceptual Experience

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The Ontology of Perceptual Experience

About this book

Contemporary philosophy of perception typically focuses on discussions concerning the content and the phenomenology of perceptual experience. In a significant departure from this tradition, The Ontology of Perceptual Experience explores the very conscious phenomena to which intentional or phenomenal features are thus ascribed. Drawing on a new wave of research— including the work of maverick philosophers like Helen Steward, Brian O'Shaughnessy, and Matthew Soteriou—this book examines two ways of categorizing perceptual experiences in accordance to their dynamic structure: on the one hand, Experiential Heracliteanism, an approach striving to describe perceptual experiences in terms of irreducibly dynamic components; and, on the other, Experiential Non-Heracliteanism, which conceives perceptual experiences as dynamic phenomena that may nevertheless be described in terms of non-dynamic elements. Sebastián Sanhueza Rodríguez describes both proposals and makes a modest case on behalf of the Non-Heraclitean approach against its increasingly popular Heraclitean counterpart. This case crucially turns on the fact that the Heracliteanist engages in a controversial and perhaps unnecessary commitment to irreducibly dynamic processes. The ontological framework this book unpacks offers a platform from which traditional issues in the philosophies of mind and perception may be revisited in refreshing and potentially fruitful ways.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2022
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781978786400
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Mind & Body in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1: The Dynamic Structure of Perceptual Experiences
  9. Chapter 2: Experiential Heracliteanism
  10. Chapter 3: Experiential Non-Heracliteanism
  11. Chapter 4: The Individuation of Experiences
  12. Chapter 5: Experience and Causation
  13. Chapter 6: Applications beyond the Ontology of Perception
  14. Chapter 7: Perceptual Experience and Language
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About the Author

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