Perception: First Form of Mind Tyler Burge

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• ISBN 10: 0192644319
• ISBN 13: 9780192644312
• Author: Tyler Burge

In Perception: First Form of Mind, Tyler Burge develops an understanding of the most primitive type of mental representational: perception. Focusing on the functions and capacities of perceptual states, Burge accounts for their representational content and structure, and develops a formal semantics for them. The discussion explains the role of iconic format in the structure. It also situates the accounts of content, structure, and semantics within scientific explanations of perceptual-state formation, emphasizing formation of perceptual categorization. In the book’s second half, Burge discusses what a perceptual system is. Exploration of relations between perception and other primitive capacities-conation, attention, memory, anticipation, affect, learning, and imagining-helps distinguish perceiving, with its associated capacities, from thinking, with its associated capacities. Drawing mainly on vision science, not introspection, Perception: First Form of Mind is a rigorous, agenda-setting work in philosophy of perception and philosophy of science.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Perception

3. Perceptual Constancy: A Central Natural Psychological Kind

4. Some Basics about Perceptual Systems

5. Perceptual Reference Requires Perceptual Attribution

6. Form and Semantics of Representational Contents of Perceptual States

7. Perceptual Attributives and Referential Applications in Perceptual Constancies

8. Egocentric Indexing in Perceptual Spatial and Temporal Frameworks

9. The Iconic Nature of Perception

10. First-Formed Perception: Its Richness and Autonomy

11. Intra-Saccadic Perception and Recurrent Processing

12. Further Attributives: Primitive Attribution of Causation, Agency

13. Perceptual-Level Representation and Categorization

14. Conation: Relatively Primitive, Perceptually Guided Action

15. Perceptual Attention

16. Perceptual Memory I: Shorter Term Systems

17. Perceptual Memory II: Visual Perceptual Long-Term Memory

18. Perceptual Learning, Perceptual Anticipation, Perceptual Imagining

19. Perception and Cognition

20. Conclusion

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