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Perception: First Form of Mind

by Tyler Burge

Perception as a basic form of representation

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Perception as a basic form of representation

Tyler Burge examines perception as a primitive kind of mental representation, connecting its content and structure to the functions of perceptual states and to scientific accounts of how those states form. The discussion includes iconic format, perceptual categorization, and a formal semantics for perceptual representation. In the second half, the focus broadens to the nature of perceptual systems and their relations to capacities such as attention, memory, learning, affect, and imagination. Drawing mainly on vision science rather than introspection, the book uses these connections to distinguish perception and its associated capacities from thinking and its associated capacities.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers studying philosophy of perception or philosophy of science.
  • Readers interested in how vision science informs philosophical accounts of perception.
  • Readers seeking a detailed treatment of mental representation, perceptual systems, and related capacities.

Themes

Perception and mental representationPerceptual content, structure, and semanticsVision science and perceptual categorizationRelations between perception, cognition, and other mental capacities

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Book overview

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.
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