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Do We Perceptually Experience the High-Level Properties of Visual Scenes?| old_uid | 15202 |
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| title | Do We Perceptually Experience the High-Level Properties of Visual Scenes? |
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| start_date | 2015/03/06 |
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| schedule | 11h30-13h |
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| online | no |
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| details | Séance organisée conjointement avec le séminaire PaCS. |
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| summary | Philosophy of perception tends to focus on the perceptual representation of objects, and debates surrounding the high-level content of perceptual experience are no exception to this rule: there is much discussion of whether we can perceive an object as a pine tree but no discussion of whether we can perceive the scene before us as a forest. Drawing on both empirical and phenomenological data, I argue that we perceptually experience high-level properties of visual scenes such as being a forest, being a desert and being a city. There are several standard objections to the claim that we perceptually experience the high-level properties of objects, but I suggest that none of these objections can be applied to scene perception. I conclude that scene perception has an important part to play in debates concerning the content of perceptual experience. |
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| responsibles | Schlenker |
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