Disjunctivism Contemporary Readings

Name: Disjunctivism Contemporary Readings
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ISBN: 9780262524902

ISBN-10: 0262524902

ISBN-13: 9780262524902

Edition: 2009

Authors: Alex Byrne, Heather Logue

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A central debate in contemporary philosophy of perception concerns the disjunctive theory of perceptual experience. Until the 1960s, philosophers of perception generally assumed that a veridical perception (a perceptual experience that presents the world as it really is) and a subjectively similar hallucination must have significant mental commonalities. Disjunctivists challenge this assumption, contending that the veridical perception and the corresponding hallucination share no mental core. Suppose that while you are looking at a lemon, God suddenly removes it, while keeping your brain activity constant. Although you notice no change, disjunctivists argue that the preremoval and…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Heather Logue is a graduate student in Philosophy at MIT.



Introduction




Visual Experiences




Selections from Experiences




Perception, Vision, and Causation




The Objects of Perceptual Experience




Selections from "Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge"




The Reality of Appearances




Arguments from Illusion




The Idea of Experience




Selections from Perception




Selections from The Problem of Perception




The Theory of Appearing Defended




The Obscure Object of Hallucination




The Limits of Self-Awareness



Bibliography


Contributors


Index