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Author / Creator:Lycan, William G., author.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Description:1 online resource : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:
Senses and sensation.
Senses and sensation -- Philosophy.
Perception.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13502973
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ISBN:9780191968044 No price
Notes:Also issued in print: 2024.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 5, 2024).
Summary:'Perceptual Content' discusses and compares the representational characters of all the traditional 'five senses'. It has three main topics or concerns. (1) The diversity of the senses: though Lycan maintains as a working assumption that all perception represents, the similarity between sense modalities ends there. The senses' respective representational modes, styles and structures - not just their mechanisms - differ very strongly from each other. (2) The Layering thesis: Lycan argues that a single sensory representation usually has more than one content, the contents systematically related to each other by a priority or dependence relation. More specifically, a perceptual state may represent one object or property by representing a more primitive or less ambitious one; he calls this the 'layering' of content.
Target Audience:Specialized.
Other form:Print version : 9780192871817
Standard no.:10.1093/9780191968044.001.0001

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