The Contents of Perceptual Experience: A Kantian Perspective

Anna Tomaszewska

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2014

The Contents of Perceptual Experience: A Kantian Perspective

Anna Tomaszewska

https://doi.org/10.2478/9783110372656

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About this book

The book addresses the debate on whether the representational content of perceptual experience is conceptual or non-conceptual, by bringing out the points of comparison between Kant’s conception of intuition and the contemporary accounts of non-conceptual content, encountered in the writings of G. Evans, Ch. Peacocke, F. Dretske, T. Crane, M. G. F. Martin, and others. Following R. Aquila’s reading of Kant’s conception of representation, the author argues that intuition (Anschauung, intuitus) provides the most basic form of intentionality – pre-conceptual reference to objects, which underlies the acts of conceptualization and judgment.
The book advances an interpretation of Kant’s theory of experience in the light of such questions as: Does conscious perceptual experience of objects require that subjects possess concepts of these objects? Do the contents of experience differ from the contents of beliefs or judgments? And if they do, what accounts for this difference? These questions take us to the most puzzling philosophical topic of the relation between mind and world. Anna Tomaszewska argues that this relation does not involve conceptual capacities alone but also, on the most basic level of perceptual experience, pre-cognitive “sensible intuition,” enabling relatedness to objects that remains uninformed by concepts. In a nutshell, on her interpretation, Kant can be taken to subscribe to the view that perceptual cognition does not have rational underpinnings.

Kantian Debate, Monograph, Philosophy of Mind

Author / Editor information

Anna Tomaszewska is a researcher at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. She specializes in Kantian philosophy and philosophy of mind.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
1 The Contents of Perceptual Experience: Opposing Views Publicly Available Download PDF	13
2 Are the Roots of the Debate Kantian? Publicly Available Download PDF	39
3 Kant on Nonconceptual Content: Sensations and Intuitions Publicly Available Download PDF	54
4 Kant on Concepts in Experience Publicly Available Download PDF	84
5 Nonconceptual Content and Transcendental Idealism Publicly Available Download PDF	104
6 Kant and Naturalism about the Mind Publicly Available Download PDF	126
Conclusion Publicly Available Download PDF	142
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	146
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	153

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Scholars working on Kant and/or the philosophy of mind, including graduate students and working philosophers.
Pages
- Main content: 157
Keywords: Kant; conceptualism; non-conceptualism; content of perception; embodied cognition

eBook

Published: October 8, 2014
ISBN: 9783110372656

Hardcover

Published: October 8, 2014
ISBN: 9783110372649