Syllabus/achievement requirements

Tyler Burge, The Origins of Objectivity, (paperback, Oxford University
Press), Chapters 1-3 and 8-10.
 
Tim Crane, ‘The Problem of Perception’,  Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (Online)
 
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.)
 
David Marr, Vision, MIT 1982, Chapter 2
Mike Martin, 2002, “The Transparency of Experience”, Mind and Language,
17: 376–425.
 
Mike Martin, 2000, “Beyond Dispute: Sense-Data, Intentionality and the
Mind-Body Problem” in Crane and Patterson (eds.) 2000, 195–231.
 
Steven Palmer, Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, MIT 1999,
Chapters 1, 2 and 7.
 
A.D. Smith, The Problem of Perception Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 2002, Chapter 2.
 
Paul Snowdon, ‘How to interpret “direct perception”’, in T. Crane (ed),
The Contents of Experience, CUP 1992.
 
Matthew Soteriou, ‘The Disjunctive Theory of Perception’, Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Online)
 
William Fish, Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction,
Routledge 2010. (This textbook provides an overview of recent
philosophical theories of perception. Not obligatory, but recommended if
you want more background material.)
 
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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