The Reflexive Theory of Perception
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John Dilworth, draft only, 7/04 The Reflexive Theory of Perception (RTP) claims that perception of an object X by an organism Z consists in Z being caused by X to acquire some disposition D toward X itself. This novel, purely naturalistic perceptual theory explains perceptual intentionality, correct versus incorrect perception and externalist content in a plausible evolutionary framework. The theory also undermines cognitive and perceptual modularity assumptions, including informational or purely epistemic views of perception, in that, according to the RTP, any X-caused and X-directed dispositions are genuinely perceptual--including affective, attitudinal, and immediately activated purely action-directed behavioral dispositions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004