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647Perceptual causality problems reflexively resolvedActa Analytica 20 (3): 11-31. 2005.Causal theories of perception typically have problems in explaining deviant causal chains. They also have difficulty with other unusual putative cases of perception involving prosthetic aids, defective perception, scientifically extended cases of perception, and so on. But I show how a more adequate reflexive causal theory, in which objects or properties X cause a perceiver to acquire X-related dispositions toward that very same item X, can provide a plausible and principled perceptual explanati…Read more
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573In support of content theories of artAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (1). 2007.A content theory of art would identify an artwork with the meaningful or representational content of some concrete artistic vehicle, such as the intentional, expressive, stylistic, and subject matter-related content embodied in, or resulting from, acts of intentional artistic expression by artists. Perhaps surprisingly, the resultant view that an artwork is nothing but content seems to have been without theoretical defenders until very recently, leaving a significant theoretical gap in the liter…Read more
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Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |