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The Sensory Content of Perceptual Experience
Author(s) -
Berger Jacob
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/papq.12110
Subject(s) - perception , sensory system , focus (optics) , content (measure theory) , dual (grammatical number) , cognition , cognitive science , component (thermodynamics) , cognitive psychology , psychology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience , mathematics , mathematical analysis , physics , optics , thermodynamics
Abstract According to a traditional view, perceptual experiences are composites of distinct (but related) sensory and cognitive components. This dual‐component theory has many benefits; in particular, it purports to offer a way forward in the debate over what kinds of properties perceptual experiences represent. On this kind of view, the issue reduces to the questions of what the sensory and cognitive components respectively represent. Here, I focus on the former topic. I propose a theory of the contents of the sensory aspects of perceptual experience that provides clear criteria for identifying what kinds of properties they represent.