Perceptual content is indexed to attention
pp. 4039-4054
Résumé
Attention seems to raise a problem for pure representationalism, the view that phenomenal content supervenes on representational content. The problem is that shifts of attention sometimes seem to bring about a change in phenomenal content without a change in representational content. I argue that the representationalist can meet this challenge, but that doing so requires a new view of the representational content of perception. On this new view, the representational content of perception is always relative to a way of attending. I call this the attention-indexed view of perceptual content.
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
Dietz Richard (2017) Vagueness and probability. Synthese 194 (10).
Pages: 4039-4054
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1125-x
Citation complète:
Prettyman Adrienne, 2017, Perceptual content is indexed to attention. Synthese 194 (10), Vagueness and probability, 4039-4054. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1125-x.