A Theory of Sentience
New York: Oxford University Press (2000)
| Abstract | Austen Clark offers a general account of the forms of mental representation that we call "sensory." Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark defends the hypothesis that the various modalities of sensation share a generic form that he calls "feature-placing." Sensing proceeds by picking out place-times in or around the body of the sentient organism, and characterizing qualities (features) that appear at those place-times. The hypothesis casts light on many other troublesome phenomena, including the varieties of illusion, the problem of projection, the notion of a visual field, and the existence of sense-data | |||||||||
| Keywords | Data Epistemology Perception Sentience Space | |||||||||
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| Call number | BD214.C535 2000 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0198238517 9780198238515 | |||||||||
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