Perceptual Experience

Front matter

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PERCEPTUA s

Christopher S. Hill

Contents

Acknowledgments List of Figures

VII.

. Introduction . Goals . Fixing Ideas about Perception and Experience

Conclusion

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VIII.

. Introduction . Introspective Grounds for Perceptual Relativity . Experimental Grounds for Relativity

Appearance Properties Thouless Sizes

. More on Thouless Properties

Objective Properties Conclusion

. Introduction . Alternative Accounts of Visual Appearances . Aspects of Perceptual Relativity Due to Peripheral Sense Organs

Aspects of Perceptual Relativity Due to Attention Thouless Properties and Causal Theories of Representation

. Generalizing from Vision to Other Perceptual Modalities . Appearance and Reality in Audition

. Appearance and Reality in Touch

. Appearance and Reality in Olfaction

Conclusion

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Introduction Particularism vs Existentialism An Argument for Existentialism viii CONTENTS

Arguments for Particularism Awareness of Particulars

. The Nature of Objects of Perceptual Awareness . A Dual Systems Account of Object Awareness . A Unified Account of Object Awareness

Awareness of Objects Qua Members of Kinds Conclusion

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Introduction

. Dualism

Phenomenal Representationalism

Reasons for Representationalist Accounts of Awareness An Objection to Phenomenal Representationalism Conclusion

Appendix I. The Phenomenology of Conscious Thought Appendix II. The Phenomenology of Moods and Emotions

6. A Quasi-Perceptualist Account of Pain Experience

VII.

Introduction

. Fixing Ideas

The Damage Detection System and Its Relation to Pain Six Concerns about This Theory of Pain Hurting

. Awareness of Pain and Perceptual Awareness

Conclusion

Introduction

. The Autonomy Thesis

A Metaphysical Argument for the Autonomy Thesis A Fourth Argument for Autonomy The Categorical Base Hypothesis

. Phenomenal Consciousness . Proposals about P-Consciousness . The Second-Order Theory of P-Consciousness

The Adverbial Theory of P-Consciousness The Categorical Base Theory of P-Consciousness