ISBN : 9780198827702
This book presents a unified account of perceptual content, perceptual consciousness, and perceptual evidence. The view presented is radical, original, and broad in scope. The key idea is that perception is constituted by employing perceptual capacities - for example the capacity to discriminate instances of red from instances of blue. Perceptual content, consciousness, and evidence are each analyzed in terms of this basic property of perception. Thereby, Susanna Schellenberg develops a comprehensive view of perception that is sensitive to empirical research. She addresses issues such as the general and particular elements of perceptual experience, the function, individuation conditions, and neural basis of perceptual capacities, the nature of representational content, the structure of perceptual consciousness, the epistemic force of perceptual states, and the origins of perceptual knowledge.
Introduction
Part I: Foundations
1 Perceptual Particularity
2 Perceptual Capacities
Part II: Content
3 Content Particularism
4 Fregean Particularism
5 In Defense of Perceptual Content
Part III: Consciousness
6 Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity
Part IV: Evidence
7 Perceptual Evidence
8 Justification, Luminosity, and Credences
9 Perceptual Knowledge and Gettier Cases
10 Capacitism and Alternative Views