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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262259149
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 July 2009
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8297.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262259149
An argument that there are perceptual mechanisms that retrieve information in cognitively and conceptually unmediated ways and that this sheds light on various philosophical issues. In Cognition and Perception , Athanassios Raftopoulos discusses the cognitive penetrability of perception and claims that there is a part of visual processes (which he calls “perception”) that results in representational states with nonconceptual content; that is, a part that retrieves information from visual scenes in conceptually unmediated, “bottom-up,” theory-neutral ways. Raftopoulos applies this insight to problems in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, and examines how we access the external world through our perception as well as what we can know of that world. To show that there is a theory-neutral part of existence, Raftopoulos turns to cognitive science and argues that there is substantial scientific evidence. He then claims that perception induces representational states with nonconceptual content and examines the nature of the nonconceptual content. The nonconceptual information retrieved, he argues, does not allow the identification or recognition of an object but only its individuation as a discrete persistent object with certain spatiotemporal properties and other features. Object individuation, however, suffices to determine the referents of perceptual demonstratives. Raftopoulos defends his account in the context of current discussions on the issue of the theory-ladenness of perception (namely the Fodor-Churchland debate), and then discusses the repercussions of his thesis for problems in the philosophy of science. Finally, Raftopoulos claims that there is a minimal form of realism that is defensible. This minimal realism holds that objects, their spatiotemporal properties, and such features as shape, orientation, and motion are real, mind-independent properties in the world.