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Seeing Seeing
Author(s) -
Phillips Ben
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/phpr.12636
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , perception , dual (grammatical number) , cognitive science , psychology , cognitive psychology , process (computing) , visual perception , epistemology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience , operating system
I argue that we can visually perceive others as seeing agents. I start by characterizing perceptual processes as those that are causally controlled by proximal stimuli. I then distinguish between various forms of visual perspective‐taking, before presenting evidence that most of them come in perceptual varieties. In doing so, I clarify and defend the view that some forms of visual perspective‐taking are “automatic”—a view that has been marshalled in support of dual‐process accounts of mindreading.