Perceptual content is indexed to attention
Synthese 194 (10):4039-4054 (2017)
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Adrienne Prettyman
Bryn Mawr College
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Attention seems to raise a problem for pure representationalism, the view that phenomenal content supervenes on representational content. The problem is that shifts of attention sometimes seem to bring about a change in phenomenal content without a change in representational content. I argue that the representationalist can meet this challenge, but that doing so requires a new view of the representational content of perception. On this new view, the representational content of perception is always relative to a way of attending. I call this the attention-indexed view of perceptual content.
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Keywords | Attention Consciousness Perception Representation |
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DOI | 10.1007/s11229-016-1125-x |
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