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Theory of Sentience

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      Austen Clark offers a general account of the forms of mental representation that we call `sensory'. To sense something, one must have some capacity to discriminate among sensory qualities; but there are other requirements. What are they, and how can they be put together to yield full-blown sensing?Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark proposes and 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. Such feature-placing is a primitive kind—probably the most primitive kind—of mental representation. Once its peculiarities have been described,many of the puzzles about the intentionality of sensation, and the phenomena that lead some to label it 'pseudo-intentional', can be resolved. The hypothesis casts light on many other troublesome phenomena, including the varieties of illusion, the problem of projection, the notion of a visual field,the location of after-images, the existence of sense-data, and the role of perceptual demonstratives. A Theory of Sentience will interest anyone interested in the topics of sensation, representation, or phenomenal consciousness.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Austen Clark EAN: 9780198238515 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 585 g HEIGHT: 242 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-03-09 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology WIDTH: 161 cm SPINE:

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      Cognition and cognitive psychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Philosophy

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      Austen Clark is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
      Austen Clark offers a general account of the forms of mental representation that we call `sensory'. To sense something, one must have some capacity to discriminate among sensory qualities; but there are other requirements. What are they, and how can they be put together to yield full-blown sensing?Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark proposes and 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. Such feature-placing is a primitive kind—probably the most primitive kind—of mental representation. Once its peculiarities have been described,many of the puzzles about the intentionality of sensation, and the phenomena that lead some to label it 'pseudo-intentional', can be resolved. The hypothesis casts light on many other troublesome phenomena, including the varieties of illusion, the problem of projection, the notion of a visual field,the location of after-images, the existence of sense-data, and the role of perceptual demonstratives. A Theory of Sentience will interest anyone interested in the topics of sensation, representation, or phenomenal consciousness.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Austen Clark EAN: 9780198238515 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 585 g HEIGHT: 242 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-03-09 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology WIDTH: 161 cm SPINE:

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      Cognition and cognitive psychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Philosophy

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      Austen Clark is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

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