Representationalism, perceptual distortion and the limits of phenomenal concepts
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Representationalism and indeterminate perceptual content
JOHN DILWORTH Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, USA. (E-mail: [email protected]) [Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 6 (2007), pp. 369-387. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com] Abstract. Representationalists currently cannot explain counter-examples that involve indeterminate perceptual content, but a double conten...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0045-5091,1911-0820
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2014.981932