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Object Perception, Perceptual Recognition, and That-Perception Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2009

Vincent Hope
Vincent Hope
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Royaume-Uni
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Abstract

The philosophy of perception currently considers how perception relates to action. Some distinctions may help, distinguishing object perception from perceptual recognition, and both from that-perception. Examples are seeing a man, recognising a man, and seeing that there is a man. Perceiving an object controls self-location by its recognising an object, which depends on memory of how it looks, controls looking for it and interacting with it, or not, and that-perceiving controls saying that an object exists. Perception controls action. Milner and Goodale, Jacob and Jeannerod, and Noë are considered.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 84 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 515 - 528
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2009

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