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18New Representationalisms: Essays in the Philosophy of Perception (edited book)Ashgate. 1993.These essays in the philosophy of perception cover a variety of topics, among which are included science, souls and sense-data, perception and scepticism, the causal representation theory of perception, semantic presence, the impact of contemporary neuroscience and hypothesis and illusion.
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18A visual registration can be coloured without being a pictureBehavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (2): 214-214. 2002.Zenon Pylyshyn here repeats the same error as in his original article (1973) in starting with the premiss that all cognition is a matter of perceiving entities already given in their singularity. He therefore fails to acknowledge the force of the evolutionary argument that perceiving is a motivated process working upon a non-epistemic sensory registration internal to the brain.
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16Clamping and motivationBehavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (5): 643-644. 2003.Arthur M. Glenberg omits discussion of motivation and this leads him to an underestimation of the part played by pleasure and pain and desire and fear in both the clamping and the updating of percepts. This commentary aims at rectifying this omission, showing that mutual correction plays an important role.
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14The question of the assumed givenness of the singularity of the targetBehavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (4): 514-514. 2005.Interesting as the experiments are, their relevance to the real-life situation is rendered questionable by the unthinking use of given singularities as target objects. The evolutionary process does not respect what one agent takes to be a singular referent. A “singling” from the continuum is rather a varying feature of the necessity to track what is rewarding in it.
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12The Joke, the" As If", and the Statement'In M. Levine (ed.), The Analytic Freud, Routledge. pp. 294--311. 2000.
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8Faith as Ethically Basic to the Task of ConstructingConstructivist Foundations 7 (1): 31-33. 2011.Open peer commentary on the target article “From Objects to Processes: A Proposal to Rewrite Radical Constructivism” by Siegfried J. Schmidt. Upshot: The aim is to show that, although Schmidt’s thesis must in most respects be warmly welcomed, there is an unexpressed implication concerning the dialogic structure of language that, when drawn out plainly, reveals a further valuable move open to the theory. I offer it therefore as a clarification of his theory with which I hope Schmidt may agree. He…Read more
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7If a sensory field exists as a pure natural sign open to all kinds of interpretation as _evidence_ (see 'Sensing as non-epistemic'), what is it that does the interpreting? Borrowing from the old Gestalt psychologists, I have proposed a gestalt module that picks out wholes from the turmoil, it being the process of _noticing_ or _attending to_ , but the important difference from Koffka and Khler (Koffka, 1935; Khler, 1940), the originators of the term 'gestalt' in the psychology of perception ( is…Read more
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6Avatar-Philosophy (and -Religion) or FaitheismImprint Academic. 2011.Are you prepared, either as an atheist or a religious believer, to have your ideas of God, the self, other people, the body, the soul, spirituality, and faith challenged in an unexpected and original way? Here is a book that moves out from under and away from the received notions of those ponderous topics, whether or not you believe in the divine. The author is a confessed atheist but one who rejects the approach of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Michel Onfray and the rest when they depa…Read more
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3The Entity Fallacy in EpistemologyPhilosophy 67 (259): 33-50. 1992.In order to entertain the argument to be presented here, you have to begin by casting away a presupposition. The ultimate aim will be to restore it again as a presupposition, but the immediate aim will be to test for and make clear its undoubted worth and usefulness by imagining what happens to our knowledge-system when we remove it.
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1Pre-phenomenal adjustments and Sanford's illusion objection against sense-dataPacific Philosophical Quarterly 64 (July): 266-272. 1983.
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Habermas as lacking in faith?In Colin B. Grant (ed.), Beyond Universal Pragmatics: Studies in the Philosophy of Communication, Peter Lang. 2010.
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The irony of perceptionIn New Representationalisms: Essays in the Philosophy of Perception, Brookfield: Avebury. pp. 176--201. 1993.
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‘What it Isn’t Like’1 (January, 1996), 23-45American Philosophical Quarterly 33 (1): 23-42. 1996.From an Indirect Realist point of view, the Knowledge Argument in the philosophy of perception has been misdirected by its very title. If it can be argued that sense-fields are at their basis no more than evidence, indeed, a part of existence as brute as what is usually termed the 'external', then, if 'knowing' is not essential to sensing, that argument has to be radically reconstructed. Resistance to there being an non-epistemic or 'raw feel' basis for sensing is very fashionable at the momen…Read more
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The new representationalism: A reply to Pitson's the new representationalismPhilosophical Papers 16 (August): 125-139. 1987.
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Hacker, P. M. S., "Appearance and Reality: A Philosophical Investigation into Perception and Perceptual Qualities" (review)Mind 98 (n/a): 165. 1989.