Binding: Hardcover
Description: In Perception: First Form of Mind Tyler Burge develops an understanding of the most primitive type of mental representational: perception. Focusing on the functions and capacities of perceptual states Burge accounts for their representational content and structure and develops a formal semantics for them. The discussion explains the role of iconic format in the structure. It also situates the accounts of content structure and semantics within scientific explanations of perceptual - state formation emphasizing formation of perceptual categorization. In the book's second half Burge discusses what a perceptual system is. Exploration of relations between perception and other primitive capacities - conation attention memory anticipation affect learning and imagining - helps distinguish perceiving with its associated capacities from thinking with its associated capacities. Drawing mainly on vision science not introspection Perception: First Form of Mind is a rigorous agenda - setting work in philosophy of perception and philosophy of science.
Title: Perception: First Form Of Mind
Author(s): Burge Tyler (Flint Professor Of Philosophy Flint Professor Of Philosophy Ucla)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198871002
Pages: 898 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2022
Category: Perception