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Social Perception| old_uid | 13857 |
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| title | Social Perception |
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| start_date | 2014/04/17 |
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| schedule | 11h-13h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Can we see (some) emotions in another person’s face and body via perception or do we always cognitively infer their emotional state on the basis of low-level visual information about their expression and behavior? How should we understand “seeing emotions” in order for the perceptual hypothesis to come out (non-trivially) true? In my presentation I will argue that there are cases in which emotions can be perceived as such in the absence of concepts for these emotions. I will support the claim that we can-see some emotions by appealing to three sorts of arguments: a) the specific way in which the relevant perceptual states carry information about another’s emotion; b) the possibility of non-conceptual “seeing as”; c) psychological and neurological data on emotion perception. Taken singularly, these sources of evidence are not enough to conclusively establish the thesis of emotion perception, but taken together they are sufficient to make a solid case for there being at least some cases in which emotion is perceived rather than inferred on the basis of perception of low-level properties. |
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| responsibles | Giardino |
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