Syllabus/achievement requirements

Literature:

Tyler Burge, The Origins of Objectivity, Chapters 1-3 and 8-10.

Susanna Siegel, The Contents of Visual Experience, Chapters 1-3 and 6.

Gary Hatfield, Perception and Cognition: Essays in the Philosophy of Cognition, OUP 2009, Chapter 6.

Gary Hatfield and Sarah Allred, Sensation, Cognition and Constancy, OUP 2012. (Several papers are relevant, but we can most likely only discuss one.)

Steven Palmer, Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, MIT 1999, Chapters 1, 2 and 7.

Irving Rock, An Introduction to Perception, 1975, Chapter 2.

Paul Snowdon, ‘How to interpret “direct perception”’, in T. Crane (ed), The Contents of experience, CUP 1992.

William Fish, Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction, Routledge 2010. (This book provides an excellent overview of recent philosophical theories of perception.)

If I can find a way of selecting a manageable excerpt, I am tempted to include something from Brian O’Shaughnessy’s magesterial and under-appreciated last work, Consciousness and the World. A good deal of the material is available on-line, through the University Library. The rest will be made available in the form of master copies.

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