The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception
New Philosophical Perspectives
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 July 2015
- ISBN 9780198738916
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 236x169x31 mm
- Weight 832 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A team of leading experts elucidate the nature of the cognitive penetrability hypothesis, according to which our beliefs, desires, and emotions literally affect how we see the world. They connect the topic's multiple and interdisciplinary strands, and reveal the importance of knowing whether and how cognitive states can influence perception.
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According to the cognitive penetrability hypothesis, our beliefs, desires, and possibly our emotions literally affect how we see the world. This book elucidates the nature of the cognitive penetrability and impenetrability hypotheses, assesses their plausibility, and explores their philosophical consequences. It connects the topic's multiple strands (the psychological findings, computationalist background, epistemological consequences of cognitive architecture, and recent philosophical developments) at a time when the outcome of many philosophical debates depends on knowing whether and how cognitive states can influence perception. All sixteen chapters were written especially for the book. The first chapters provide methodological and conceptual clarification of the topic and give an account of the relations between penetrability, encapsulation, modularity, and cross-modal interactions in perception. Assessments of psychological and neuroscientific evidence for cognitive penetration are given by several chapters. Most of the contributions analyse the impact of cognitive penetrability and impenetrability on specific philosophical topics: high-level perceptual contents, the epistemological consequences of penetration, nonconceptual content, the phenomenology of late perception, metacognitive feelings, and action. The book includes a comprehensive introduction which explains the history of the debate, its key technical concepts (informational encapsulation, early and late vision, the perception-cognition distinction, hard-wired perceptual processing, perceptual learning, theory-ladenness), and the debate's relevance to current topics in the philosophy of mind and perception, epistemology, and philosophy of psychology.
MoreTable of Contents:
The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception: An Overview
I. DEFINITIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Cognitive Penetrability: A No-Progress Report
Towards a Consequentialist Understanding of Cognitive Penetration
II. MODULARITY, ENCAPSULATION AND IMPENETRABILITY
Unencapsulated Modules and Perceptual Judgment
Perceptual Integration, Modularity, and Cognitive Penetration
Multisensory Perception and Cognitive Penetration: The Unity Assumption, Thirty Years After
III. SUBSTANTIVE IMPENETRABILITY AND PENETRABILITY CLAIMS
Perception versus Conception: The Goldilocks Test
Cognitive Penetration and the Reach of Phenomenal Content
Cognitive Penetration of the Dorsal Visual Stream?
Attention and Cognitive Penetration
IV. COGNITIVE PENETRABILITY AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION
Looks the same but feels different: A metacognitive approach to cognitive penetrability
Cognitive Penetrability and Consciousness
Seeing, Visualizing, and Believing: Pictures and Cognitive Penetration
V. COGNITIVE PENETRABILITY AND NONCONCEPTUAL CONTENT
Cognitive Penetration and Nonconceptual Content
VI. COGNITIVE PENETRABILITY AND REALISM
Perceptual Content, Cognitive Penetrability, and Realism
Cognitive (Im)penetrability of Vision: Restricting Vision versus Restricting Cognition
Afterword: Epistemic Evaluability and Perceptual Farce
Index
